Review: Not my usual genre, but I liked it!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 8, 2012
I picked this up after reading Feral Sins and Here Be Sexist Vampires. I usually prefer the paranormal genre but I liked the author so had to try this out, and I'm glad I did. While I liked Feral Sins more, I thought this was better than HBSV. My only complaint was that having read the first two, the hero of the story - and main love interest - seemed exactly like the guys from the previous two except he wasn't supernatural. He was still emotionally stunted, believed he couldn't love, and the heroine draws him out. If he could shape shift he would have been Trey Coleman and if he was a vampire he could have been Jared.But while Connor left some uniqueness to be desired, beyond that, I loved Jaxx. She was so strong with such a great perspective on what anyone else would have considered a cruddy beginning, but it didn't feel artificial; she felt amazing while remaining genuine. Her discussion of her 14 year old self and her 22 year old self felt SO real that I'm sure a lot of readers will empathize with her.Their romance is...definitely interesting. My complaint is that it felt...almost too strong. The sexual tension is so thickly described it almost seems unreal and kind of struggles for believability (is that a word?), which is a bit unfortunately when everything else in the book feels so gritty and real. There are instant attractions, but theirs is so instant and SO noticable that it just felt...a little more like writer's artifice than an attraction a reader could empathize with.But Jaxx is so amazing throughout despite that complaint, and her logical, realistic way of dealing with it both makes you want to cheer for her and makes your heart hurt for her.The plot resolves fairly predictably, which isn't a bad thing, but it could have used a little more development earlier. It just seems odd that her stalker didn't start shenanigans until so late in the book that it felt like the wrap up was almost a miniplot within a plot.Overall though, this was well worth the read, and I'd definitely recommend it. The epilogue definitely made me smile.