Review: Prostitute's Daughter Defies the Odds
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 26, 2013
I read an Amazon Top 500 reviewer's five-star review of Immortal Distraction 2.  I paid $5.99 for this book and I am sorry that I did.Here are the reasons I give this book only three stars:* the main character, a hard-working, virtuous person, leads a depressing life.  It's not fun to read about public servants who do their job, go home to an empty apartment, drink a glass of wine, sleep, wake up and go back to work.  (It's ordinary.  My own life is ordinary.).  It's an interesting job (she's a police detective) but on this string of murders she has no clues.  As a side activity, she repeatedly bails her mother, a former prostitute, out of the clink.  Authors: please give your main character more dimension: a hobby or other interest, a friend, a club membership or a creative outlet.* the main character remains loyal to a mother who cannot stay clean, pay her bills, tidy up her apartment or buy food.  The love attachment she feels for her mother is unrequited.  Even the vampire finds his detective's illogical feelings bizarre.  The only way this unchanging enabling situation improves for the heroine is if the mother dies.* the love interest, a 500-year-old vampire, is attracted to her by her appearance and her smell, as if he's an animal rather than a highly evolved creature.  I kept thinking: dog.  He's handsome, he has nice clothes, he has money.  He feeds off criminals, making the world a better place.  He did not light my fire.* she likes his smell, too.  They sniff each other during frequent graphic intimate scenes that seem just like human-human.  A vampire and his centuries of nakedness with women does not bring any novelty to the experience in this author's world.* there's no romance.  He falls in love for the first time ever.  His friend has fallen in love, it intrigued him.  After 500 years, it needed to happen. Too bad for him that the object of his new love is the boring virtuous fragrant detective.