Review: Not enough world-building
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 25, 2013
I have not read any of J.R. Ward's "Black Dagger Brotherhood," which I understand is a lot like this.  What bothered me about this book is how little effort Lynne put into building her own world.  We are told that Micah and his associates are part of an elite vampire organization, but we are never given a clear picture of what they do, what their king does, or what the exact threat is posed by the "dreck."  These guys spend more time thinking about having sex than they do anything else.Micah is a broken, pathetic character and since we are never given a chance to see him at his prime, it's hard to root for him.  He's not just upset, he's a self-pitying mess.  It's hard to feel that he really can find true love when we see him ready to die for losing his boyfriend one minute and then ready to mate with somebody else the next.There is a potentially interesting world here, but the problem is that the author doesn't seem very interested in it herself.  She's more into the erotic element -- which would be fine if she gave us characters with erotic exploits worth reading about.