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An absolutely delightful read. An easy five stars for me. I’ve never laughed more reading a book. Both the prose and dialogue are clever and witty. Multiple scenes just had me cracking up. But there’s also some heartfelt moments too. Something I was ...more
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Hello, yes, the girl who hates vampires came back for book 2. I hope that tells you something about this series. But let’s get into it. Minor spoilers might follow. Right off the bat, I did find this one a little harder to sink my teeth into than the f ...more
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I went out on a complete limb, reading this book. I don’t like vampires. At all. Let’s just go ahead and preface this entire review with that. BUT I am a sucker for a good buddy cop story. I don’t have much real critiques for this book. Most things bo ...more
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An absolutely delightful read. An easy five stars for me. I’ve never laughed more reading a book. Both the prose and dialogue are clever and witty. Multiple scenes just had me cracking up. But there’s also some heartfelt moments too. Something I was ...more

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Hello, yes, the girl who hates vampires came back for book 2. I hope that tells you something about this series. But let’s get into it.
Minor spoilers might follow.

Right off the bat, I did find this one a little harder to sink my teeth into than the f ...more

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I went out on a complete limb, reading this book. I don’t like vampires. At all. Let’s just go ahead and preface this entire review with that. BUT I am a sucker for a good buddy cop story.

I don’t have much real critiques for this book. Most things bo I went out on a complete limb, reading this book. I don’t like vampires. At all. Let’s just go ahead and preface this entire review with that. BUT I am a sucker for a good buddy cop story.

I don’t have much real critiques for this book. Most things boil down to personal preference and the fact that I knowingly entered into a vampire story when I can’t stand vampires lol.
It’s an intriguing premise right from the start. The minute kids were showing up in the hospital from snorting vampire blood, I was hooked. I had to know more.

Drake practices little to no “handholding” in her writing. Something I admire greatly. Information is fed to the reader naturally and by plot rather than just stating blatantly. Nothing is over explained. And very few things were under-explained in my opinion.

The dialogue flows like a crystal mountain stream. The characters are likable and the banter is everything you could ask for.

I like duel POV books, but I usually find myself liking one POV more than the other. Gabe won out for me pretty early on. Gabe is the voice of reason in the midst of the vampire shenanigans. With Gabe’s POV you get to be eased into the vampire side and still have a human perspective that feels similar to how you do reading. Or at least to how I felt reading. I’d be thinking something, read a little further, and Gabe would say or think it. It made for a validating and delightful reading experience. Also grumpy, cynical characters, that are soft deep down are my kryptonite.

Lily too, despite my vampire aversions, is an extremely likable and well rounded character. She’s super tough and badass, but also is deeply compassionate.

A few personal things.
There was too much cussing for me. I can handle some swearing, a well placed swear can even make me laugh, but this was a little excessive in my opinion.
The gore was also too much. The fight/intense scenes were very well written (again no real critique here) it just was very gory for my taste.

Only cons
1. Early on I found it a little hard to keep straight what Gabe new about the mystery and what Lily new, but one could argue that just adds to the mystery and need to keep reading to figure things out.

2. I never found myself feeling any particular amount of emotion at any given scene. Like sheer horror and anxiety at times, yes. But during the sadder parts I wasn’t particularly moved. Maybe I just don’t have it in me to feel sad for vampires, I’m not sure, just stating my experience.

Over all, Drake is an extremely talented writer. She kept me turning those pages. I laughed out loud at parts and in the end enjoyed it a lot. I look forward to reading the rest of the trilogy. ...more

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