Review: Painful
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 23, 2010
This book is, as we say in the south, a hot mess.  The ideas in it have potential but they are never fully realized.  Most of the characters are flat, not fleshed out, and I had a hard time giving a damn either way about them.  The book is 90% dialogue with little or no real narration on things.  (What kind of dog is Spike?)  Katherine is a sniveling mess a good deal of the time.  Parts of it are just sex scene after sex scene (Which is better written than most Laurel K Hamilton sex scenes, so at least that's a bonus.).  The end fight seemed very anti-climatic and predictable.  I really wish the ideas and characters had been fleshed out more.  In the end I had a hard time getting thru it and was very glad I had gotten it for free.