Alicia G. - reviewed on 12/27/2009 + 52 more book reviews

After devouring all of the available Sookie Stackhouse novels, I went looking for suggestions of similar books with a female protagonist and vampires. This series ended up at the top of my list. As I started this book, I thought I'd found a winner, but by the time I finished it, I had already decided not to put the second book on my queue.

As a stand-alone, this is a pretty entertaining book. I liked Kitty, and Vaughn builds an interesting supernatural world (with a few new elements and an inventive, subversive explanation of werewolf culture). Unfortunately, there were enough missing details to slowly shift me as a reader from belief to nitpicking (seriously, Vaughn needed to do a little more observation of a radio show at work).

Without spoiling the ending of the book, though, it seems to set up a formula for the rest of the series, and leaves Kitty as the only reoccurring character. Major drawback and not what I'm looking for in a book series. I was ready to fall in love with a new batch of characters and a new series, but this book just didn't take me there.

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