Barbara S. (barbsis) - , reviewed on 9/1/2011 + 1076 more book reviews

I totally love this book! Antoinette Petrescu is a terrific kick-ass heroine who takes no shit from anyone. She is a Venator (sort of a paranormal bounty hunter) who fights and kills Necrodreniacs, blood thirsty necrophiliac rogue vampires. A very interesting twist on the vampire genre. She also hates the "good" vampires called Aeternus. When she was six her mother was murdered by a vampire and at that age, all vampires were bad. It is only now as she is forced to work with Christian Laroque (coincidentally the Aeternus who saved her and her brother when her mother was murdered) that she realizes there really is a difference between Aeternus and Dreniacs. She fights tooth and nail against her attraction to Christian, after all what does it say about her as a person that she is lusting after a hated vampire.

The background story is interesting too. The Fang-Whore killer is loose in New York City and killing well, fang-whores. (Fang-whores are females that get off on having a vampire bite them.) Surprisingly all the victims resemble Antoinette which really creeps her out. Does she know the killer? How and how is she and Christian going to find him?

The first sex scene is amazingly hot. She gets injured and Christian uses a drop of his own blood to heal her which draws her into blood thrall. I could feel every ounce of their passion. What great writing!

The only issue I had with this book was the editing. There were numerous instances of missing words so the sentence read funny. (I've practice medicine on humans before.) I found myself stopping and rereading these sentences trying to figure out what was wrong with them. Rather distracting but otherwise a sensational series starter.

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