Review: Promising but needs work
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 12, 2013
In this first book we are introduced to our heroine Eve and learn that she is an Adept. As an Adept she has special powers (super human speed and enhanced senses) that allow her to fight vampires and gives her a special connection to them. We are given no detailed explanation of how she became an Adept other that she appears to have inherited these abilities from her mother. He mother Natalia was a vampire hunter who was killed by a vampire when Eve was only eleven. Eve now grown up wants to take up her  mother's cause and eradicate all vampires, either by killing them or finding a cure for what she believes is a disease.We are also introduced to Michal and Julien de Cernay, 800 year old identical twin vampires. Michal is a former priest who also wants to see all vampires destroyed. He is filled with remorse for all the terrible things he has done as a vampire. He is drawn to Eve and wants her for his own. He insists that she must submit to him in all things in order to build the trust necessary for them to succeed in their mission, but I found him to be a very wishy-washy Dom and not very effective or believable. The sex scenes were somewhat bland and unimaginative. As a submissive Eve was equally wishy-washy, one moment she was "all in" and the next she was questioning if she could "do this". The only thing she is sure about is that Michal turns her onWe see very little of Julien in this first book and do not get any real since of who he is.The other main character is Soren and Ancient. An Ancient is an original vampire who was born from the union of a fallen angel and a human rather than being a human turned into a vampire. I find this to be a unique twist on the vampire myth and hope to see more of him as the books progress.The plot moves fairly slowly in the first book buts has potential. We have romance, mystery and good vs evil.I very much enjoyed the quotes at the beginning of each chapter, but there were some problems with the formatting of the book. Many sentences were chopped up, some lines contained only one word. This may have been an e-reader mechanical issue. However, the author does need to be more careful with paragraph formatting, some contained dialogue or thoughts from more than one character leading to confusion as to who was speaking or whose point of view you were getting. The writing style itself was simple but with some redundancy in use of words.I hope I have not appeared over critical as I did somewhat enjoy the book and do see potential here and will be moving on to the next book.