THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS!!
I realy love the world Dianne Sylvan has created here. Yeah, its about vampires, which Im pretty damn sick of if theyre not Buffy-related, but thankfully theres still something interesting you can do with them, as this series shows.
This book picks up about 3 months after the last one left off, with David and Miranda ruling as Prime and Queen of the southern part of the US, while Miranda tries to pass as human to advance her music career. After what appears to be a botched assassination attempt on Miranda, it seems someone is targeting the people Miranda cares about, trying to kill them off to make her suffer. While trying to deal with this new threat, Miranda realizes that just because hes her soulmate, doesnt mean she really knows David when an ex-boyfriend she never knew he had shows up. This ex-boyfriend is Deven, the Prime of California, who dumped David suddenly and unceremoniously when he met his own soulmate Jonathan, who then became Consort of California. Theres all kinds of unresolved issues there and, well, shit goes spectacularly wrong. Miranda, of course, is just furious about the whole thing. David does EVERYTHING all wrong in that situation (and Deven does too, to a lesser extent), but in seeing how all that went wrong you can see how it could have been worked out in a positive manner if David wasnt such a bastard. Its interesting, and a perspective you dont often see in regular genre fiction. Davids still kind of a dick, though.
Luckily, Miranda still kicks ass. And even with their limited page time, Sylvan does a great job fleshing out the minor characters, like Cora and Lalita. I loved how a minor character who was killed in the last book, Sophie, is still an important element in this book as well.
The adventure/mystery was really compelling and it took several turns I didnt see coming. I cant wait for the next book in the series!
I realy love the world Dianne Sylvan has created here. Yeah, its about vampires, which Im pretty damn sick of if theyre not Buffy-related, but thankfully theres still something interesting you can do with them, as this series shows.
This book picks up about 3 months after the last one left off, with David and Miranda ruling as Prime and Queen of the southern part of the US, while Miranda tries to pass as human to advance her music career. After what appears to be a botched assassination attempt on Miranda, it seems someone is targeting the people Miranda cares about, trying to kill them off to make her suffer. While trying to deal with this new threat, Miranda realizes that just because hes her soulmate, doesnt mean she really knows David when an ex-boyfriend she never knew he had shows up. This ex-boyfriend is Deven, the Prime of California, who dumped David suddenly and unceremoniously when he met his own soulmate Jonathan, who then became Consort of California. Theres all kinds of unresolved issues there and, well, shit goes spectacularly wrong. Miranda, of course, is just furious about the whole thing. David does EVERYTHING all wrong in that situation (and Deven does too, to a lesser extent), but in seeing how all that went wrong you can see how it could have been worked out in a positive manner if David wasnt such a bastard. Its interesting, and a perspective you dont often see in regular genre fiction. Davids still kind of a dick, though.
Luckily, Miranda still kicks ass. And even with their limited page time, Sylvan does a great job fleshing out the minor characters, like Cora and Lalita. I loved how a minor character who was killed in the last book, Sophie, is still an important element in this book as well.
The adventure/mystery was really compelling and it took several turns I didnt see coming. I cant wait for the next book in the series!
