Review: Reading this feels like being tossed in the middle of a series
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 25, 2013
Getting started with this book is a bit overwhelming.  You've got the female main, Dani, who is a detective and her uncles, aunts, step-siblings, mother, father, the guy her mother thought was her father (long story there), best friend from the police academy . . . well, you get the idea.  There are two families that are mortal enemies and they all have lots of members and back story.  And then there is another family that hates one of the families.  Into this mix, Dani falls in love with the son of a man she'd sworn to hate.Or in lust anyway.There is a plot in the midst of all this, but it isn't any great shakes.  The bad guy is telegraphed pretty explicitly, so any suspense the author had a chance to work with is dispelled before it even has a chance to begin its work.  A big canvas is a great things for an author.  An overcrowded canvas, especially one filled with nothing more than stick figures, isn't so great.