Review: Mostly Ok
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 12, 2014
hmmmm....I guess I just never really connected with this one. The blurb sounded really interesting, and I'm always up for trying a good shifter novel, but when it came down to it, me and the characters just never really meshed. I liked Brent on his own, and I liked Rabb on his own...but whenever they were together it just felt a little flat to me. I wasn't feeling any of the chemistry between these two. I don't know if it's the fact that I'm just not in the right place right now (and having spent half the day slogging thru tax forms, maybe my brain is just too fried to enjoy anything) or the fact that they kept talking about how there was all this stuff in there past, but it is just to glossed over for me to connect, but it just didn't hit me the way I think it should have.The whole 'that blood will make you crazy, bitch' (totally paraphrasing there) was a good twist, and gave a logical reason for why Rabb and Brent went to splitz-ville. I get why Rabb would want to chance it, and Brent wouldn't (being as he is the one who'd go coo-coo), and the whole blood hunger was worked well into the story. I also like how it set up later events.I'm still a little unsure why Brent wanted to empty the city of shifters. I get that Rabb could be a problem, but was Brent's problem so severe that he decided to basically take over a city just so he could suffer on top lonely mountain? It just seemed a bit extreme to me. And why would the shifters listen to him anyways? I get the that the mayor would have a lot of political clout...but there are clearly all kinds of weird walking around Bright City, so wouldn't they be a little ticked off by being dictated to by one vamp (who isn't even an elder)?Also, after the scene in the woods...there is no way I buy that he had enough energy, let enough blood, to get it up. I mean, five minutes at least, and maybe a half-hour at best, is not enough time to replenish the bodies entire blood supply. I just don't buy it. Even with freaky glowing hands and vamp-tastic blood...it just seems way too far fetched for me. And don't even get me started on the whole, 'let me give you blowjob while the big-baddie is clearly still out there walking around, waiting to finish off what they started' thing. These are grown men, shouldn't they at least wait till they are somewhat safe to engage in sexy-time? I'm sure the other dude, practically dieing only several hundred feet away, would also appreciate it as well.This book had a lot going for it, and I can see how others really enjoyed it, but for me it just wasn't there. I never felt a connection with the characters and some of their actions (repeatedly walking into dangerous situations like it is nothing and having to have your ass saved, again, cause you couldn't be bothered to take their advise) just ticked me off. It was a quick read, though, so that was nice. And after a day of mind numbing number crunching I kinda needed something that required no brain cells.Wavering between 2.5 and 3 stars...but I think I'll settle on 3 because there was enough here that I liked to offset some of the things that I didn't.I was provided a copy of this book as part of the M/M Romance Group's DBML program on GoodReads in exchange for an honest review.