Review: Imaginative and lively paranormal romance
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 22, 2012
Delia is a feisty and fascinating heroine who shares her flat with a ghost. She works at a waitress at Katzenjammer's bar (German for hangover!) alongside humans, pixies, vampires and hybrids. She's fun, strong and sensitive. A sensitive, in fact. She can sense people's emotions and from touching, relive experiences they have gone through, a gift which she doesn't always appreciate but others do. She also does a little shapeshifting on the side. From being single for a long while, suddenly two men enter her life - Seamus, long-time friend and sexy Irish vampire-human hybrid, and Draven, another drop-dead gorgeous hybrid, new employee at Katz. Delia now finds herself torn between two lovers who between them drag her into a dangerous situation. Draven has chosen to fight in the Cage as a sort of ritual and suddenly Delia finds she is forced to fight for her life. And how does this tie in with pixie kidnapping?This book by an exciting young author is an interesting and entertaining take on the paranormal romance theme. Pixies certainly don't crop up very often in this genre. The dialogue is modern and spirited, the characters are complex and credible and the settings and situations are intriguing and well thought out. It's not just surface entertainment. The issues of loyalty and trust are strong subthemes. Good versus evil and tolerance versus discrimination are explored. There are a few sinister hints in little things like the way everyone is categorised at birth, with some sort of secret system reserved for vampires. And the characters face death. There is darkness to match the lightness of this novel. It's a great read and an impressive start to a series.