Review: I'm giving up on this series- Save your money!
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 9, 2014
I bought the Nightlife Omnibus.  It starts in New York where Michelle is being attacked by bad cops.  Aaron is a carefree waiter in an Italian restaurant barely making ends meet.  When he tries to save Michelle, he is hit by a bullet and is near death.  Michelle was no ordinary escort, but a vampire who feels an obligation to try to save him.  Michelle survived a sadistic master as Paris fell to the Nazis.  She was forced to watch humans hooked on venom and kept for her master die and tells Aaron never to bite the same woman twice and never for more than 60 secs.  She is Aaron's master and even though she never wanted to create another of her kind, she teaches him everything she knows.  After being forced to kill two policeman, they head to Vegas.  In the Nightlife Las Vegas, they are targeted by a drug dealer who lost too much money to the telepathic Aaron at the poker tables even though Michelle warns him not to draw attention to them.  They are forced to kill or be killed by Cartel members and burn the bodies and head to Paris.  They picked up a PI tail who wants to become a vamp and has video of them.  It is gritty and not pretty.  In the Nightlife Paris, Aaron finally gets to the bottom of Michelle's story.  Instead of being sympathetic, he becomes all judgmental and Michelle dies temporarily because he was being an ass.  He becomes all sorry and goes off and is taken in by a fallen angel named Urvashi.  While Michelle haunts their hotel room, he is screwing Urvashi and she knew Michelle was alive.Now that you are up to speed, Urvashi has a link with Aaron now and the one with Michelle is gone.  When she tells him what to do he has to do it.  They head to London to take care of the PI who became a vamp by killing Michelle  Aaron's character starts out as a naive kid, but now he has power and no self control.  Michelle had always kept a low profile, worked as an escort and stayed far away from her old life in Paris.  Travis Luedke actually wrote her story in a compelling way that showed how the horror of her life in WWII set the tone for the vamp she became.  She is very French, but also very practical and harms no one if she can get away from it.  Aaron deliberately made a blood slave out of Ana a party girl with bad taste in men while they were in Vegas.  After seeing what withdrawal did to her, he deliberately makes another one in London.  Michelle doesn't realize how deep her feeling were for Aaron until she lost him.  Now Michelle has to share him with Urvashi and Aaron adds another woman to the mix when the two he has cannot get along.  I felt like any minute I would see:  Dear Penthouse, I....What started out as gritty novels detailing the problems of being a vampire in the 21st century has devolved to a manwhore who cannot follow a few simple rules to protect the lives of innocent humans.  He is no better than the Vampire Dimitri they are going to try to kill in the next installment: Nightlife Moscow.  Writing women well does you no good if you do not remember that we are the ones who buy the majority of Urban Fiction.  I do not mind a flawed hero, but we women are surrounded by too many stupid men in real life to want to spend our free time reading about them.  Congratulations Mr. Luedke!  You are the literary equivalent of a manwhore so you and Aaron can stroll into the sunset together.