Helpful Score: 2
First in the Joe Pitt paranormal mystery series, with Joe being a Rogue Vampyre, trying to stay out of the clutches of various warring Vampyre Clans. A renegade, badass Vampyre with an un-stellar past and an attitude that I loved. When a new threat, brain-eating zombies, comes on the scene, Joe tries to track down the carrier of the Zombie virus at the same time as he's trying to locate the missing daughter of a highly-connected woman--highly connected, as in, friend of the Coalition Vampyre clan, though not a Vamp herself. Sounds like trouble, right? Right. I loved this book and found it exceedingly difficult to put down. Definitely not your typical "paranormal" book--no chick lit here, and much more badass than Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden series.
Helpful Score: 1
I really liked the way this book handled its vampires and zombies bringing a more scientific explanation to the table especially explaining the traditional shambling stumbling idiot zombie in a logical way.
That being said I was a bit disappointed in this book. As a non-romance paranormal and mystery junkie I was hoping this was going to be a bit more of a hard boiled noirish Harry Dresden/John Taylor type of book. Sadly it didn't meet that expectation. The vampyric aspect of Joe came across merely as a plot device and hindrance and while it did help create tension for the story and problems for Joe it almost seemed like any "disease" could have filled that bill.
I think the biggest telling point is less than a month after reading it I had to really stop and think about how the book ended and who the villain turned out to be.
I want to like Joe and there are a few interesting subplot points that I would love to get answers too so I will probably try the second book, but I don't know if I'll make it through the whole series.
That being said I was a bit disappointed in this book. As a non-romance paranormal and mystery junkie I was hoping this was going to be a bit more of a hard boiled noirish Harry Dresden/John Taylor type of book. Sadly it didn't meet that expectation. The vampyric aspect of Joe came across merely as a plot device and hindrance and while it did help create tension for the story and problems for Joe it almost seemed like any "disease" could have filled that bill.
I think the biggest telling point is less than a month after reading it I had to really stop and think about how the book ended and who the villain turned out to be.
I want to like Joe and there are a few interesting subplot points that I would love to get answers too so I will probably try the second book, but I don't know if I'll make it through the whole series.
Helpful Score: 1
Awesome book. I enjoyed it from start to finish. I liked it so much I went out and got the other ones in the series.
Helpful Score: 1
This is the second time I've tried to read this book. No go. Reads like bad old crime Noir. Could be it's just not my think.
