Review: Four great romances, then a stinker
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 6, 2013
The Kindle format is a really annoying. It is very difficult to move from one book to another, or even within one book.  Usually, attempting to do so moves you to a different book.That said, the first book alone (hard mated) is excellent and worth the current $4 purchase price.  The next three (something, embrace the dark, and assassin's touch) are good / 4-stars. Nothing worth reading twice, but fun onceThe 5th story (Shadow bound) is incredibly bad/1-star.  I highly recommend skipping it unread. No romance, characters we are supposed to sympathize with are dumb as dirt or completely oblivious, and the villains have nearly everything they want the vast majority of the time. Lots of poorly written action scenes, and the people ignoring the obvious. There are a couple obligatory sex scenes, but even those are boring. I can't imagine anyone seriously giving this story a 5-star rating unless it is a paid review.Not a spoiler, because we find this out in the first couple chapters. The bad guys are unkillable undead. The leading lady discovers how to kill her undead foes upon meeting the first one (due to a unique skill of hers), and then doesn't repeat the obvious strategy, instead loosing her friends, property, house, job, living on  the run for three months, and then literally almost dies of starvation, thirst and heat stroke, and watching friends die -- all rather than killing her undead foe when she knows exactly how to do it at no risk to herself whatsoever.  Seriously!  Too dumb for words. Meanwhile, the leading man thinks the best way to fight an army of undead who are unkillable (literally) is to hide the problem from the public and let the undead army swell in size. Hmm.  How about nip the problem in the bud and burry them all in concrete? I can think of dozens of easy solutions to unkillable undead, and so can every other author of undead movies, but I digress. Random people on the street are perfectly aware of the problem but never mention it to anyone, never try to do anything about it, just stand around moaning that they are doomed. The plot just goes downhill from there. Yick! Okay, this really is a ** spoiler **: at long last the leading lady finally uses her "kill an undead" talent (just once) and the author immediately uses an incredibly lame excuse to take that ability away from her, because the author wants the undead to continue winning.  This book is so incredibly lame!!!5th book is so bad, I couldn't force myself to give the 6th book a try for a long time. It isn't worth either skimming or reviewing. 1-star and just plain poorly written.