Review: Merzetti Effect
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 31, 2012
Ainsley is an unemployed nurse with secrets. Delano Bowen is vampire doctor researching a cure for the disease of vampirism. He has searched for Ainsley and manipulates her into his life to use her in his research because of properties in her blood that she is not even aware of.  Predictably, they fall in love, battle an evil enemy, learn each other's secrets, and complete the research.I love this author's voice and down to earth writing style, so it actually pains me to have to say that I had a couple of problems with this particular book.  I did find it to be a little too predictable, a point that I will not harp on because it makes the book an easy read, and I know that a lot of people like that. I don't mind that as much as I minded not having the characters more fleshed out.  I wanted to care about them more than I did.Without getting into spoilers let me just say that I really wanted to hate the bad guy, but I didn't really know much of anything about him, so that was difficult.  I also wanted to be scared for his victims (readers will know who I'm talking about) but I hadn't met them in person and so I had a hard time caring about them on a deep personal level. Even the main three characters that we spent all of our time with could have used a little background.The plot moved very fast, which was great for the pace of the book, but as a consequence, it glossed over major plot points that would have helped me get into the story more or relate to the characters better.Overall, this book was a pleasant read, but with the interesting twist on vampires, it could have been so much more.Noelle Blakely, Author of Cherishing Destiny