Review: How vampires were meant to be!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 14, 2013
Bad Mouth by Angela McCallisterReviewer: Kris (w/ I Heart Books)Rating: 5 hearts*From personal TBR list*I am pretty open about my usual distaste for vampires. This stems mostly from the feeling that all of the vampire novels are either exactly the same or trying to be TOO different from the other. With that being said every once and awhile a vampire stands out among the brooding, fanged masses and kicks up my heart beat.Kade was that vampire. He stood out because he wasn't a stale and brooding.I loved McCallisters take on vampires; she touched on both classic and new ideas. Melding the two perfectly to my liking. I think it's hard in this post-Twilight bookiverse to come up with new vamp ideas and not be compared to Meyers. This was definitely an adult vamp novel and not one little bit like Twilight. Nary a sparkling virgin to be seen!In this book we follow Val as she searches for her ex husband and the vampires responsible for multiple deaths. Accepting help from vampires is not high on her to-do list, but it becomes a necessary evil. Assuming the vampire assigned to help is a desk jockey and then coming face to face with Kade, the prince of vampires, throws her for a loop. The undeniable attraction they both feel for each other is another unexpected turn of events.Kade does not like humans. He has good reason for this but that doesn't really make you feel in better right? He swore a lot and was very... uhm, brash. I'm not going to lie... completely my kind of male! He didn't hold back where his mouth was concerned. But the more we learned about him through Val's eyes, the more we learned that he really was a kind and fair man.Val was the epitome of kick ass heroine. She was afraid but overcame. She was wrong and admitted it. She was hurt, she voiced it. She was a little of everything we wished we all could be. Lol. Including being the object of Kade's desires.McCallister did a great job of keeping us in the dark about certain plot twists and I am a huge fan of unpredictable plots! I love those "Whoa... WTF!" moments. Too much that we read is cookie cutter plot, and this was refreshingly not!  I loved and hated the ending. I simultaneously thought `Yes, that's awesome!' and `Nooo, there must be more!'.I highly recommend this for someone looking for more than your typical vampire novel and wanting characters that are more human while being more than human. I can't wait for book 2!