Review: Great Beginning ** w/ a Few Spoilers**
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 14, 2013
I really enjoyed the first 3/4 of the book and the ever spunky heroine; who is usually in dire peril throughout.  The devotion driving her actions is pretty impressive, and she's nobody's fool, even when she's living in an era when women are property.However towards the last few chapters she overreaches and uses her powers so many times that I was having to suspend disbelief.  And then! she gets shot in the shoulder, stiched up and minutes later - wants to have mind blowing sex?  Yeah, it kind of went downhill for me at that point.  Liked it better when it was all about the snuggling in a way.The rampant sex scenes got in the way of a well told story and actually had me wondering why the captain would even get respect from his crew as often as he disapears to have sex in the middle, beginning or aftermath of battle?  A lot of his self loathing was tiring, as well, but standard romance flawed hero stuff.Otherwise, it ws a good, long book that was interesting in it's depiction of good and evil vampireswith some new legends;  and old colonial ways.  I hated that it ended with no follow up book available, and it says another will be out in 2014 but it will be about different characters.  The ending seemed way too unfinished for me with these characters.It is however, MUCH better than the cover would have you to believe!  And that in itself had me lol'ing because boy, this pirate must have more freshly cleaned and laundered shirts than any ship's captain ever had, the never ending shirt supply definitely brought the humor.I've had to add a star, though, as I found myself comparing many of the recent romance novels I've read in my mind to this one; and finding that the hero here is the best of the lot!