Review: Didn't like it
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 11, 2012
At 57 pages, a lot of plot and action is not really expected, but I did expect the story to make more sense and to have more excitement, to be more interesting. This has to be the most boring vampire romance I've ever read. It wasn't until the 50% mark/p. 29 that the vamp meets his heroine and gets it on with her. Until that point, I got to see him have sex with two other women and see the heroine go on about her excrutiatingly boring, good-girl life and this article she's going to write. And as for the sex with one of those other women, the H does her from behind in the behind and uses her blood as lube.Now, maybe I'm wrong, but that's how the scene read. <"She screamed when something sharp cut her on [the] left butt cheek, but then he was rubbing himself against the sting. In seconds he shoved himself inside her..."> Just not a turn on for me, blood as lube. Imagining bright blood all over his little vampire grossed me out. After that, it was really hard to even like, much less pant after, the hero.As for the hero and his darkness, you get the idea from the blurb just what he's up to. He has a higher calling from 'someone,' some power that allows the H to see the evil/darkness in others. He then consumes this darkness by draining it and the immoral person's life blood. Sounds interesting, but it proved to be otherwise. And who/what the heroine turns out to be to him seemed an easy given. Really, the story just didn't seem that tight or cohesive, and it moved almost sluggishly, wasting half the book NOT on my h/H together.I usually like Marie Harte, but for me, this was not her best outing. There should have been more time with h/H together; both lead characters come across as boring and without any real dimension or life to them; and the ending was too rushed, too tidy, and just too suddenly sweet HEA. There was potential here to have a darkly romantic short story, but overall, it was the romance that was lacking most of all.