Review: A MUST for paranormal romance lovers!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 24, 2012
The Charmed is a great romance story. There were a couple of plot twists that I didn't see coming that really added to the story. I liked that Christine added in a few fight scenes throughout the story as well.Olivia was definitely a character that I had a slight issue with. She went from fearing Caleb to falling head over heels in love with him in a couple of days. But no matter how strongly he acted towards her, she still doubted his feelings for her. I'm okay with a little insecurities in my characters because after all, it makes them human. However, her continual doubt in Caleb made me want to smack her upside the head.I liked the secondary characters with both the vampire hunters and Jax and Gemma. I must say that Alec, Olivia's vampire hunter partner, was rather fetching. He was cocky in his abilities, he was sarcastic, protective over Olivia and when he was in over his head, he wasn't too full of himself to ask for help. There's also Jax who is the vampire who took Caleb in shortly after he was turned and Gemma the Dhampire who lives in the house as well. All of these characters really made the story for me.There was quite a bit of blood and gore in this story as well. Which I must say I rather enjoyed. Too often romance novels, skip the gore and instead play up the romance which is okay if it's a contemporary romance but I liked that these vampires got bloody. There's fighting, killing, bags of blood for nourishment. At no point did you forget that you were reading a book about vampires.I personally cannot wait to see what happens in the next book since we are left off wondering what will become of Olivia and Caleb. After all she's a vampire charmer who will always have crazed vampires coming after her. Will she learn how to protect herself and return to the comfort of the tree house with Caleb, Jax and Gemma? Or will she join the vampire hunters and help rid the world of their evil?-Book Sniffers Anonymous