Review: Declan and Tori-
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 21, 2013
I chose this book because I enjoy Paranormal Romance that includes several paranormals and in this case it was vampires and wolf shifters.  While I enjoyed it to a certain extent there were things that didn't quite do it for me.The story is about a human Private Investigator, Tori who helps out a frightened girl who swears she was attacked by a vampire.  Tori's disbelief soon gets challenged when she is attacked too.  In her case, the vamp makes it personal because she resists and hurts him.  The vamp gets his revenge by changing her and leaving her to die starving and ignorant.Tori manages to get to a police acquaintance, Declan, for help.  He's had a thing for her and she for him, but she doesn't date cops so nothing happens with their attraction.  That is until Tori stumbles into Declan's home for help.  Declan is more than he has been pretending with Tori.  He's a wolf shifter and he recognizes that she has been changed into a vampire- a starving vamp.  He gets her over the rough spot and they finally acknowledge feelings and attraction for each other.In the process of Declan aiding Tori, they learn that she is different from the rest of her kind with abilities and traits that even the oldest, strongest vamps don't have.  Declan takes Tori to his friend, Eli, an older vamp to seek answers.  Eli is taken with Tori and things get a little complicated because Declan claims Tori as his.  Oh, and Manuel, the evil vamp, discovers Tori survived and he's hot for her too just not in the same way or even a good way.The plot is a little bit of help Tori figure out what's going on with her change and take care of the bad vamp, Manuel mixed with a lotta bit passion and sex first with Declan and Tori and then with Declan, Tori and Eli.There are short little pieces about the hunters which only told me that they are like the paranormal police force, but it was still not enough to give me a good understanding of who and what they were.  There was a more detailed bit about Declan's background.  Not much on Tori and little on Eli.  I felt slightly disconnected from the characters because of this lack of information which is possibly what troubled me when it came to the relationship(s).Then there was the three-some.  I'm okay with three-somes, but this one felt strange because Declan and Tori were already a couple and adding Eli should have been either to admit him to their loving relationship or he shouldn't have been added at all.  The threesome didn't feel right as a result and ended up doing nothing for me, but the trouble was that it took up a great deal of the last half of the book.  Others might not have seen it that way and that's fine.  Its just how I felt about it.So, I felt that the book was okay and maybe I'll give the series a further try with the second book to see if more explanations come out about the hunters and maybe feel better about the story if its a different couple that are involved.Those who enjoy hot passion in their paranormal romance might want to give this one a try.