Review: Bad Cop=Good Book
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 29, 2013
Alice hates cops. She works for the VLO, Vampire Liaison Office. When she investigates the death of a newly changed vampire, Alice is forced to work with Ian, a Vampire Cop, to solve the case. Someone is killing new vampires, and the case is very familiar to Ian. He thought he solved a case just like this one years ago. Did he kill the wrong man?I had a hard time getting into this book at first. I'm not sure why. I almost gave up on it, but I'm glad that I didn't. Bad Cop is the 2nd book in the Immortalis series, and I was worried that I would be lost since I didn't read the first book, Bad Mouth. This worry was unnecessary as the further I got into the book, the more I realized I knew exactly what was going on. I think that if I had read the first book, it would have giving me bits of insight to some of the characters, but I don't think it took away from the overall read of this book.There is an obvious attraction between Alice and Ian. Alice is so set in her hatred of cops that for a good portion of this book, she fails to see that not everyone is the same.  Is Ian a perfect cop in his methods? No. But would I consider him a "dirty" cop? No. The attraction between them is really sexy and you know the sex between them is going to be explosive, but they need to just do it already. There is a scene after he gets shot that gets pretty hot, and that's the first time we see any kind of sexy times but it felt like a long time until there was another such scene.Overall I liked this book. It had a lot of action, plenty of mystery, and enough sex to keep it interesting without it overrunning the story. I'm not big into the sex scenes, and for me, if there is too much sex it takes away from the focus of the story. McCallister strikes a good balance between all of the different elements of the story and I enjoyed reading it.I would recommend this book to pretty much anyone that likes a crime type book with a touch of vampire and sex. It's pretty low key on the violence, so there really isn't much more in this book than in any other.