Review: A Very Good Start To The Series
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 26, 2013
Well to start with the synopsis of this book had me hyped up for a spectacular reading experience....... that did not happen.  The premise of descendants of the original Dracula running a motorcycle gang that secretly was something in the vein of Robin Hood just sounded amazing, unfortunately the author was unable to fulfill that dream, but that did not stop this from being an entertaining novel.Kane (or Viper from the title) is President of the Sons of Sangue motorcycle club, he is a vampire and he would have been a better character if the author had toned down the uber male a bit, but even with his Sons of Anarchy persona he turns out to be a decent type overall but far from a saint.Detective Cara Brahnam is a contradiction for a goodly piece of this novel before she actually admits she finds the sometimes crude Kane a bit sexy and appealing.  She has some hidden secrets of her own that come to play in this novel.The crux of this novel is twofold, the awkward and chaotic romance between kane and Cara is the first but the overarching story is the murders of several women that fit the "type" of women that Kane prefers and you guessed it, Cara also fits that "type" so we have a powerful killer on the loose that want to frame Kane for the killings.The romance was a bit clunky but then again Kane and the Sons of Sangue in general were a bit overdone, the story itself is what keeps this from being a bad book and the romance while not smoothly written was still appealing and added to the book rather than detracted from it, it was sexual without being full of "filler" sex that does nothing but add pages to a book so I gave the author kudos for that since I see so much of it.This author has been writing for a few years now but this book looks to be a step up over her other works but it still needs some a bit of help to make it to that 5 Star level, I intend to buy the next book in the series which I am sure will be about Kane's brother and hope that as with most series, the second book improves over the first.  4 Stars for me, 5 Star premise that was not fulfilled but I am betting on an improving series.