Customer Reviews
Amazing. - By: Charlie Bleach, 04 Aug 2008 
Loved every minuite of it. It's face pased & action packed with just the right amount of romance.
It was an excelent book & would recomend it to any vampire lovers. Or anyone who had read any of the Stephenie Meyer Twilight series as I have & I loved this book, so I'm sure you will too!!
Oh dear................... - By: Tingbat, 11 Jun 2008 
Having read the other reviews, I thought I would give this a go. Sadly, I have to say that it is one of the worst written books I have ever read - to the point that I was laughing out loud for most of the way through. The characters are contrived, & the sex scenes are awful - it seems that the author was just trying too hard to make them 'sexy', the language changes throughout the book & it is written using the most basic of language. I could go on, but you get the idea.
Absolute drivel - so bad I wouldn't even give it away to a charity shop.
Very enjoyable book with big possibilities for the series - By: Jessica Simpson, 05 Jun 2008 
I bought this book based on an Amazon recomendation & reading the customer reviews. Now this doesn't knock you off your feet like "Dark Lover" does but it is a promising start to a paranormal series. Yes there are Black Daggerhood similarities in this book but if you read it & judge it own it's merits, there is definately something here. After reading this I immediately orders books 2 & 3 in the series & am thouroughly enjoying them.
Where I found these characters differed from the BDB boys, was that they felt more modern. I think this is because their history is not based around a religious head (like the Scribe Virgin) & they a species left that were left to evolve independantly from their creators (flesh & blood beings). If you read it you'll understand what I mean when I say it gives these characters a much larger scope for having a very dark side...
Give the series a chance - it grows into its own as it goes on...
Superb - By: Caz, 24 May 2008 As someone who had become disalllusioned with the whole paranormal romance genre, this book spiked my interest again. The writing is good & fast paced, the characters have some depth & you actuallly find yourself bothered about whether Lucan succombes to blood lust or not. After finishing this book I promptly went out & bought the rest of the series....alll of which I've enjoyed...so far.
Highly enjoyable... - By: Dark Clarissa, 21 Feb 2008 As a recent convert to the Laurell K Hamilton, Anita Blake series, I wanted to see if there was anything else out there that was as addictive & enjoyable. I have to say that I was unsure as to whether I would find anything that lived upto my expectations. However, I was pleasantly surprised.
The whole premise of the vampires existing is totallly different to Hamilton's, but this is a difference NOT a negative thing. Its just another way of approaching the long standing myth of vampirism.
The setting of the book was very normal. Gabrielle Maxwell's life is extremely realistic, the background is believable & the supporting characters are gently introduced. But although this is total fantasy, the paranormal aspects of the story are sympatheticallly injected into her surroundings.
The only reason that this book didn't rate 5 stars is because its not as intricate a read as a Hamilton. I was able to sit & read it in one sitting. However, this may well be a positive thing, as it was a highly addictive read & I'm definitely going to be ordering the next one in the series.
For those readers who have disliked the extensive sex in the later Anita Blake books, be warned that this book is very explicit & erotic in parts. It isn't necessarily the main thrust of the plot, but it does play a major role. Personallly, I found this enjoyable & well written.
