Review: I really should have hated this book
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 18, 2013
Considered in the abstract, I really should have hated this book.  It's called "Vampire Assassin," but after the introduction, there is nothing about assassination.  It's told in the style of the main character speaking directly to the reader, and Warren finds it really hard to avoid annoying asides about the character's favorite type of coffee and her favorite type of bag and so on and so on.  The love story is a bit tepid (it is unclear when Jane and Stephen first slept together or if they even did) and there are multiple factual errors (the Roman Catholic Church isn't a big institution in Russia).But then, there is something about it that was interesting and stuck in my mind.  I am very interested to see how Jane becomes an assassin and am hoping future installments will focus on that.  I'm hoping that the intrusive and annoying details about Jane being forced on us were just the tics of an unsure author setting up a new series.  I'm going to buy #2-4.  I'm not an especially optimistic reader, so it is hard for me to explain why I am so interested in seeing how things turn out in this series.The best I can explain is that, despite all the things that made me want to toss my phone at the wall, there was stuff in here that piqued my interest and made me interested in Jane's world.