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Midnight Squad: The Grim
This is a full-length novel. It's an oddly funny erotic urban fantasy. Inside you'll find explosions, sex, violence, comedy, a vampire with a serious video game addiction, people dying, a lonely lesbian werewolf, a gothic witch, more sex, a lecherous ghost nun, some serious goofiness, an evil Jinn, an extreme pillow fight, some stuff that is sad, bad things, evil things, weird things, and an adorable skunk stuffed animal. Then more sex. You've been warned...now to the regular description.
She expected him to die. They expected to break him. Joseph has always been good at doing the unexpected. It's what has kept him alive so long. Even after being locked away in a mental institution where they expected him to quietly fade away into obscurity, Joseph did the unexpected and escaped.
Now they've found him. He's expecting jail, or maybe a return to the nuthouse. Instead they're offering him a chance to rebuild his career, and maybe even his life. He's been offered a chance to resume his military career, and train a secret squad. It's his last chance.
Joseph expected a hardcore group of fighting men. Men that ate coal and crapped diamonds. He expected a well trained, highly experience group of soldiers. What he got were untrained, but freakishly powerful women. Joseph just simply isn't prepared to deal with a young but feisty goth witch (Don't call her cute!), a lonely lesbian werewolf, a lecherous ghost nun, and a beautiful vampire whose only creatures of the night are the people she goes raiding with on World of Warcraft at 2 a.m.
If that wasn't enough trouble, the last member of his squad is the very same woman that tortured him, and killed his men. Can Joseph come to grips with who he is, and find his own humanity among the monsters? Welcome to the Midnight Squad, they're not what you'd expect.
She expected him to die. They expected to break him. Joseph has always been good at doing the unexpected. It's what has kept him alive so long. Even after being locked away in a mental institution where they expected him to quietly fade away into obscurity, Joseph did the unexpected and escaped.
Now they've found him. He's expecting jail, or maybe a return to the nuthouse. Instead they're offering him a chance to rebuild his career, and maybe even his life. He's been offered a chance to resume his military career, and train a secret squad. It's his last chance.
Joseph expected a hardcore group of fighting men. Men that ate coal and crapped diamonds. He expected a well trained, highly experience group of soldiers. What he got were untrained, but freakishly powerful women. Joseph just simply isn't prepared to deal with a young but feisty goth witch (Don't call her cute!), a lonely lesbian werewolf, a lecherous ghost nun, and a beautiful vampire whose only creatures of the night are the people she goes raiding with on World of Warcraft at 2 a.m.
If that wasn't enough trouble, the last member of his squad is the very same woman that tortured him, and killed his men. Can Joseph come to grips with who he is, and find his own humanity among the monsters? Welcome to the Midnight Squad, they're not what you'd expect.
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First published July 22, 2011
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February 19, 2015
This book makes me very sad.
It started off with so much promise only crash and burn.
The first warning flag was the cliché fat, happy, smart girl that instantly lusted after the main character. It bugged me, but it wasn’t a deal breaker, even with her incessant need to grope the main character.
Then at eight percent “Grimmy” has an awkwardly written graphic sex scene with a ghost. Still not a deal breaker, I can skim with the best of them.
Then there is the meet, and greet with Grimmy’sharem team. Meet the sexy vampire, the not very sexy lesbian werewolf, sexy witch, sexy ghost, and finally the djinn that tortured Grimmy’s old marine unit until they took their own lives, and broke Grimmy.
I don’t know if she is sexy, but I am sure she is, cause well…I don’t care anymore.
What the nail in the coffin was, was when Grimmy was having a heart to heart with the hawt ghost that got his rocks off only hours before tried to preach to him about God, Jesus, and forgiveness. How he should forgive the djinn for what she did, not for the djinns sake, but for Grimmy’s.
I felt like I was looking at one Sesame Street’s lessons, one of these things is not like the other. I’m sorry I just couldn’t take anymore, this book just wasn’t for me.
In the words of the rainbow mantis shrimp…123 Death!
It started off with so much promise only crash and burn.
The first warning flag was the cliché fat, happy, smart girl that instantly lusted after the main character. It bugged me, but it wasn’t a deal breaker, even with her incessant need to grope the main character.
Then at eight percent “Grimmy” has an awkwardly written graphic sex scene with a ghost. Still not a deal breaker, I can skim with the best of them.
Then there is the meet, and greet with Grimmy’s
I don’t know if she is sexy, but I am sure she is, cause well…I don’t care anymore.
What the nail in the coffin was, was when Grimmy was having a heart to heart with the hawt ghost that got his rocks off only hours before tried to preach to him about God, Jesus, and forgiveness. How he should forgive the djinn for what she did, not for the djinns sake, but for Grimmy’s.
I felt like I was looking at one Sesame Street’s lessons, one of these things is not like the other. I’m sorry I just couldn’t take anymore, this book just wasn’t for me.
In the words of the rainbow mantis shrimp…123 Death!
May 3, 2015
Sergent Grim has had a hard year, but things get stranger when he is commissioned to train a new unit for the military. Here are my thoughts, bad and good.
Negatives: I probably would have liked this book better except for two things: all of the proselytizing and the fact that it read like a 14 year old boys dream journal...wet dream journal. (It's a strange combo I know.) Lets face it Joseph Grim has a harem. He is one man alone with seven women. One is old, one is fat (in other words undesirable), and one is unwanted for another reason. Of the remaining four...yeah, he manages to sleep with all of them. No, that's not quite right. They sleep with him (and there is every indication that they will continue to do just that). He doesn't even have to work for it. Women wake him up with blow jobs, attack him en masse, ogle him, grope him and generally treat him as a sex god. Hot oil wrestling, lesbian sex, copious amounts of fellatio/cunnilingus in a variety of forms, motor boating, peek-a-booes, and more all make appearances. Grim is apparently the only one who can give these women what they need, and surprisingly his combatant skills aren't the ones required for most of the book. Seriously, even the lesbian needs to fuck him regularly. What the hell's up with that? Plus, I have a hard time imagining that the two people who have histories of rape would be so ready to start sexing things up.Trauma is traumatic because it is traumatizing after all.
I'm ranting a little bit, I know. But these are obviously a man's fantasy, not a woman's. Don't get me wrong, the sex is smokin' hot (literally). I have no complaints on that front. It is only when all of it, taken as a whole, is considered that I find it problematic. I mean what man wouldn't want to find his true love, who insists they keep a barely legal female sex pet, AND have a monthly alternative thrown in? Wouldn't want to get bored or anything. Oh, and he gets to be all powerful and a chosen of God...and commended by the president for his efforts. Honored on earth and in heaven apparently. The only thing his life is missing to be perfect is a happy family. Wait, no he has that too, two loving parents and six sisters he gets along with. I started to gag after a while. Lastly, the book REALLY needs a new edit. There are a lot of missing words/letters and that, then and than are regularly interchanged. The tense and narration could be shored up too. There is frequently a third person, past tense description followed by a first person, present tense exclamation. It is a little hard to keep up with.
Positives: Yea it's not all bad. The book is hilarious and the humor starts on the copyright page. The women may treat Grim as a sex toy, but they also rag on him constantly. He is the butt of endless jokes and teased mercilessly. He takes it all in stride, never getting truly mad (even at his archenemy). This gives the reader implicit permission to laugh at him and I did, loudly and often. I liked how much thought went into how the vampire's fangs work. I actually consider it an improvement on traditional fangs. While I might have gotten sick of all of the 'Jesus died for our sins stuff' (seriously, I could almost hear the children singing 'Jesus loves me! This I know, 'cause the Bible tells me so' in the background), Jesus himself was an affable character. Plus, "Christ...our Lord and Savior...and apparently cockblocker supreme." is the most marvelously irreverent sentence I have ever read. The Colonel is one of the best characters I've come across in a long time. I really appreciated his contradictory constitution as well as the fact that he is presented as loved and idolized by his son. His character type is usually made out to be cruel and heartless. I liked seeing it depicted as human.
I can completely imagine this book getting straight five star rating from its male readership and largely one star rating from the women readers. But then no book can be written for everyone. It's funny. The sex is steamy and if you overlook the editing issues the writing is really good. It ended with enough of an opening for a sequel so it will be interesting to see what happens in the future.
Negatives: I probably would have liked this book better except for two things: all of the proselytizing and the fact that it read like a 14 year old boys dream journal...wet dream journal. (It's a strange combo I know.) Lets face it Joseph Grim has a harem. He is one man alone with seven women. One is old, one is fat (in other words undesirable), and one is unwanted for another reason. Of the remaining four...yeah, he manages to sleep with all of them. No, that's not quite right. They sleep with him (and there is every indication that they will continue to do just that). He doesn't even have to work for it. Women wake him up with blow jobs, attack him en masse, ogle him, grope him and generally treat him as a sex god. Hot oil wrestling, lesbian sex, copious amounts of fellatio/cunnilingus in a variety of forms, motor boating, peek-a-booes, and more all make appearances. Grim is apparently the only one who can give these women what they need, and surprisingly his combatant skills aren't the ones required for most of the book. Seriously, even the lesbian needs to fuck him regularly. What the hell's up with that? Plus, I have a hard time imagining that the two people who have histories of rape would be so ready to start sexing things up.Trauma is traumatic because it is traumatizing after all.
I'm ranting a little bit, I know. But these are obviously a man's fantasy, not a woman's. Don't get me wrong, the sex is smokin' hot (literally). I have no complaints on that front. It is only when all of it, taken as a whole, is considered that I find it problematic. I mean what man wouldn't want to find his true love, who insists they keep a barely legal female sex pet, AND have a monthly alternative thrown in? Wouldn't want to get bored or anything. Oh, and he gets to be all powerful and a chosen of God...and commended by the president for his efforts. Honored on earth and in heaven apparently. The only thing his life is missing to be perfect is a happy family. Wait, no he has that too, two loving parents and six sisters he gets along with. I started to gag after a while. Lastly, the book REALLY needs a new edit. There are a lot of missing words/letters and that, then and than are regularly interchanged. The tense and narration could be shored up too. There is frequently a third person, past tense description followed by a first person, present tense exclamation. It is a little hard to keep up with.
Positives: Yea it's not all bad. The book is hilarious and the humor starts on the copyright page. The women may treat Grim as a sex toy, but they also rag on him constantly. He is the butt of endless jokes and teased mercilessly. He takes it all in stride, never getting truly mad (even at his archenemy). This gives the reader implicit permission to laugh at him and I did, loudly and often. I liked how much thought went into how the vampire's fangs work. I actually consider it an improvement on traditional fangs. While I might have gotten sick of all of the 'Jesus died for our sins stuff' (seriously, I could almost hear the children singing 'Jesus loves me! This I know, 'cause the Bible tells me so' in the background), Jesus himself was an affable character. Plus, "Christ...our Lord and Savior...and apparently cockblocker supreme." is the most marvelously irreverent sentence I have ever read. The Colonel is one of the best characters I've come across in a long time. I really appreciated his contradictory constitution as well as the fact that he is presented as loved and idolized by his son. His character type is usually made out to be cruel and heartless. I liked seeing it depicted as human.
I can completely imagine this book getting straight five star rating from its male readership and largely one star rating from the women readers. But then no book can be written for everyone. It's funny. The sex is steamy and if you overlook the editing issues the writing is really good. It ended with enough of an opening for a sequel so it will be interesting to see what happens in the future.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 3, 2013
One good thing I can say about this book is that I read it through and came to the last page without being bored.
Conflicted, yes. Perplexed, of course. Irritated, check.
But not bored.
This book popped out on Am. (even if there the author's name is J.L.M. Visada) among gay fiction and I really do not understand why as it only casts two lesbians as side characters while the rest of it is a macho-sex apotheosis with the main character managing to bed all the women.
I am a man myself -if a very gay one- and I probably have it in my very male genes to condone such a sexist attitude more than a woman would probably do. The task is easier because the author does not hesitate to ridicule, harass and pull his character's leg. The author has the good grace to have Joseph laughed at more often than bedded.
One key of this work is its humour. It is politically incorrect, gross, rough but it is there from page one and in many following pages, even the "sexy" ones. A compelling rhythm is also there: not consistently but often enough and sometimes it is even mixed with the a.m. humour making for irresistible pages.
Grammar and editing are awful but I am under the impression that the author does not care about them.
Even if I am generally very demanding in these two matters they are not the reason for the one-star rating.
The reason I disliked this book is that its content does not make any kind of sense.
- As an adventure romp it fails because the actual action covers less than a tenth of its length, the rest being spent on characters' interaction.
- As a romance/character study it does not work because the characters remain one-dimentional.
- As a christian novel it is inconsistent.
The author points out some relevant ethical issues (death, faith, sexuality, happiness, sin, violence) and has no qualm in declaring some conservative christian attitudes nonsensical, but he is then unable to do more than that. Jesus -who is an actual character in this book- gives the usual "free-will" speech as the reason for all that is evil in the world and that is that.
Either the author should have toned the proselytism down and left it as a moral background for his adventure or he should have increased its relevance avoiding the stark contradiction of Joseph conflicted and suffering about his sins one moment and as trigger-happy as ever a few moments later.
Finally this book does not manage to avoid the usual oxymoron of conservative Usonian authors dealing with this genre (in books but in movies as well):
On the one hand the evil guys are always hidden among the ranks of Washington's powers that be (or at least they have accomplices there), implying that the "system" is rank and corrupt.
On the other hand the hero always stems from the military and is a staunch supporter of those conservative values (national security, patriotism, tradition, self reliance) that, taken to the extreme, animate the evil guys (just take the NSA scandal animating European press these days to have a real-life example).
Conflicted, yes. Perplexed, of course. Irritated, check.
But not bored.
This book popped out on Am. (even if there the author's name is J.L.M. Visada) among gay fiction and I really do not understand why as it only casts two lesbians as side characters while the rest of it is a macho-sex apotheosis with the main character managing to bed all the women.
I am a man myself -if a very gay one- and I probably have it in my very male genes to condone such a sexist attitude more than a woman would probably do. The task is easier because the author does not hesitate to ridicule, harass and pull his character's leg. The author has the good grace to have Joseph laughed at more often than bedded.
One key of this work is its humour. It is politically incorrect, gross, rough but it is there from page one and in many following pages, even the "sexy" ones. A compelling rhythm is also there: not consistently but often enough and sometimes it is even mixed with the a.m. humour making for irresistible pages.
Grammar and editing are awful but I am under the impression that the author does not care about them.
Even if I am generally very demanding in these two matters they are not the reason for the one-star rating.
The reason I disliked this book is that its content does not make any kind of sense.
- As an adventure romp it fails because the actual action covers less than a tenth of its length, the rest being spent on characters' interaction.
- As a romance/character study it does not work because the characters remain one-dimentional.
- As a christian novel it is inconsistent.
The author points out some relevant ethical issues (death, faith, sexuality, happiness, sin, violence) and has no qualm in declaring some conservative christian attitudes nonsensical, but he is then unable to do more than that. Jesus -who is an actual character in this book- gives the usual "free-will" speech as the reason for all that is evil in the world and that is that.
Either the author should have toned the proselytism down and left it as a moral background for his adventure or he should have increased its relevance avoiding the stark contradiction of Joseph conflicted and suffering about his sins one moment and as trigger-happy as ever a few moments later.
Finally this book does not manage to avoid the usual oxymoron of conservative Usonian authors dealing with this genre (in books but in movies as well):
On the one hand the evil guys are always hidden among the ranks of Washington's powers that be (or at least they have accomplices there), implying that the "system" is rank and corrupt.
On the other hand the hero always stems from the military and is a staunch supporter of those conservative values (national security, patriotism, tradition, self reliance) that, taken to the extreme, animate the evil guys (just take the NSA scandal animating European press these days to have a real-life example).
August 4, 2013
This book wasn't really what I was expecting. But that is not said in a bad way, it was a great book, just really not what I thought it would be.
There is Grim, he had a horrible experience and was drowning himself in booze when the Army catches back up with him and assigns him to train a group of extremely different women. When everything starts hitting the fan they all come together to try and save the country. Its hard to summarize what was going on without giving a lot of the book away so I have to stop there.
There was seriously a little of everything in this book. Drama, love, lust, religion, guns, bombs, fighting, humor etc. . .You think of something and it was there. It was a very entertaining read, the only thing that bothered me was the way the dialogue was. Instead of it being separated so you could easily tell when a new person was talking it was all put together in one paragraph. It made it difficult to read in the beginning but I was able to adjust.
I was able to get a feeling for each of the characters, and everyone had their own backstories. I cared what happened to each one of them, and understood them better because of this. Grim had to be one of the happiest men in the world for all he was getting *wink wink*.
I'm still not sure how I feel about the ending, it all seemed a little rushed to me, and everything seemed to wrap up to nicely. I can only assume there is going to be another book written to explain more about all that happened. It in no way ended in a cliffhanger, but definitely left me curious as to what else is going to happen with the gang.
I really loved the dedications and copy right in the beginning, it really has nothing to do with the book at all, and normally I just skip over that stuff but it had me cracking up. It set the book up for me and the book didn't disappoint.
Would I recommend this book? Yes I would, like I said it had a little of everything in it and was very entertaining.
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There is Grim, he had a horrible experience and was drowning himself in booze when the Army catches back up with him and assigns him to train a group of extremely different women. When everything starts hitting the fan they all come together to try and save the country. Its hard to summarize what was going on without giving a lot of the book away so I have to stop there.
There was seriously a little of everything in this book. Drama, love, lust, religion, guns, bombs, fighting, humor etc. . .You think of something and it was there. It was a very entertaining read, the only thing that bothered me was the way the dialogue was. Instead of it being separated so you could easily tell when a new person was talking it was all put together in one paragraph. It made it difficult to read in the beginning but I was able to adjust.
I was able to get a feeling for each of the characters, and everyone had their own backstories. I cared what happened to each one of them, and understood them better because of this. Grim had to be one of the happiest men in the world for all he was getting *wink wink*.
I'm still not sure how I feel about the ending, it all seemed a little rushed to me, and everything seemed to wrap up to nicely. I can only assume there is going to be another book written to explain more about all that happened. It in no way ended in a cliffhanger, but definitely left me curious as to what else is going to happen with the gang.
I really loved the dedications and copy right in the beginning, it really has nothing to do with the book at all, and normally I just skip over that stuff but it had me cracking up. It set the book up for me and the book didn't disappoint.
Would I recommend this book? Yes I would, like I said it had a little of everything in it and was very entertaining.
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December 19, 2012
I skipped *several* pages. I'm not against sex, and I'm not against morally discussion, but this was at times similar to Anita Blake's books 9 to 15 in her worse logorrheic moments.
But it was funny to read on, even if it's quite scary to be in the mind of a sexually oriented man.
But it was funny to read on, even if it's quite scary to be in the mind of a sexually oriented man.
December 21, 2012
this book is way cool, and sooooo funny. i was laughing all the way to the end
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July 22, 2013Loved it.
September 2, 2013
The imagery in this book took me into a hentai movie and kept me laughing. I loved the characters.
October 13, 2013
great story! already diving into next book.
I would spend more time fleshing out this review but that's time I would rather spend reading the next installment.
just go read it for yourself!
I would spend more time fleshing out this review but that's time I would rather spend reading the next installment.
just go read it for yourself!
June 24, 2021
Penthouse Forum meets the Bible via a comic book
Not a super successful blend by my taste.🤔. I did not buy an urban fantasy novel to be proselytized at... I bought it to be entertained.
I am seriously disappointed. I doubt I will ever try another book by this author.
Not a super successful blend by my taste.🤔. I did not buy an urban fantasy novel to be proselytized at... I bought it to be entertained.
I am seriously disappointed. I doubt I will ever try another book by this author.
April 23, 2014
This is a hard book to rate. I know a lot of other reviewers have pointed out the issues with proselytizing and lack of line-editing, so I'm going to skip that. I kind of want to skip all of the negatives because I'm pretty sure other reviewers have already hit on them. The errors are what they are and I'm not defending them. I would just rather focus on the positives. Because, honestly, this book had the potential to be great.
As an origin story for a modern Grim Reaper, Joseph's journey from broken soldier to Jesus's Pale Horseman was so freaking cool. The author kept bringing in new takes on old tropes (vampires, ghosts, jinn, werewolves), and going deeper into the etiquette and lifestyles of the supernatural creatures that inhabited the world. That plus the psychological effects of Joseph's torture (minus the slight continuity issues on what exactly Alhambra did to torture him and his team) was really impressive.
Also, Joseph's voice was strong and—if it would've stayed in the same tense—awesome. I did roll my eyes a little at the whole DD thing (name one girl outside of historical romance who will actually let you buy hundreds of bucks' worth of expensive clothes to make her feel better), but the fact that Joseph had sex with almost every girl in the story didn't bother me until his sister's reaction to him nailing her girlfriend and the very end. Sure, the guy gets a lot of Dear Penthouse moments, but nearly every laugh in the book (and there were a lot of those, too) was at Joseph's expense.
So, if you're the kind of person who reads for pure entertainment value, you're looking for something full of sex and guns and Jesus and laughing at a jarhead who can't catch a break, and you have a very forgiving editorial heart (or you just don't care about typos and tenses), then this is the book for you. If not, then you're probably going to delete this book in disgust and ask for your money back.
As an origin story for a modern Grim Reaper, Joseph's journey from broken soldier to Jesus's Pale Horseman was so freaking cool. The author kept bringing in new takes on old tropes (vampires, ghosts, jinn, werewolves), and going deeper into the etiquette and lifestyles of the supernatural creatures that inhabited the world. That plus the psychological effects of Joseph's torture (minus the slight continuity issues on what exactly Alhambra did to torture him and his team) was really impressive.
Also, Joseph's voice was strong and—if it would've stayed in the same tense—awesome. I did roll my eyes a little at the whole DD thing (name one girl outside of historical romance who will actually let you buy hundreds of bucks' worth of expensive clothes to make her feel better), but the fact that Joseph had sex with almost every girl in the story didn't bother me until his sister's reaction to him nailing her girlfriend and the very end. Sure, the guy gets a lot of Dear Penthouse moments, but nearly every laugh in the book (and there were a lot of those, too) was at Joseph's expense.
So, if you're the kind of person who reads for pure entertainment value, you're looking for something full of sex and guns and Jesus and laughing at a jarhead who can't catch a break, and you have a very forgiving editorial heart (or you just don't care about typos and tenses), then this is the book for you. If not, then you're probably going to delete this book in disgust and ask for your money back.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
December 1, 2012
This book isn't made to be taken too seriously - you can tell by the tone used from the beginning and the situations that crop up, a lot of which would otherwise beggar belief. It's outrageous, funny, and very steamy.
It's very much a male fantasy and I think it will appeal most to young men. The main character, Grim, is put in charge of a team of women who are all hot in different ways (and they all fancy him of course) and he basically goes about fixing all of their problems. I think a lot of women would find this book condescending, if they were to pick it up expecting a more serious fantasy novel. I just enjoyed it for what it was, a light read with a good sense of humour. There's a lot of laugh out loud moments and quotable sentences. I personally liked this one - 'Wow, just thinking that made my ID throw up on my inner child'- but there are loads more!
The plot seemed formulated to provide Grim with opportunities for lots of steamy sex. I'm actually surprised the author hasn't put this book out there as erotica as the main character has sex on the brain!
There are definitely editing issues with this book. If it wasn't for the humorous tone I would have abandonded reading as there is a fair amount of missing words, punctuation and at times it's not obvious who's speaking because the dialogue isn't properly broken up. I think if you click on 'look inside' you'll be able tell if you can get past this or not by the first few pages.
It's very much a male fantasy and I think it will appeal most to young men. The main character, Grim, is put in charge of a team of women who are all hot in different ways (and they all fancy him of course) and he basically goes about fixing all of their problems. I think a lot of women would find this book condescending, if they were to pick it up expecting a more serious fantasy novel. I just enjoyed it for what it was, a light read with a good sense of humour. There's a lot of laugh out loud moments and quotable sentences. I personally liked this one - 'Wow, just thinking that made my ID throw up on my inner child'- but there are loads more!
The plot seemed formulated to provide Grim with opportunities for lots of steamy sex. I'm actually surprised the author hasn't put this book out there as erotica as the main character has sex on the brain!
There are definitely editing issues with this book. If it wasn't for the humorous tone I would have abandonded reading as there is a fair amount of missing words, punctuation and at times it's not obvious who's speaking because the dialogue isn't properly broken up. I think if you click on 'look inside' you'll be able tell if you can get past this or not by the first few pages.
May 10, 2014
I'm a woman and I loved this book. If a book can make me giggle snort out loud, then it's a winner. I even overlooked spelling/grammar/continuity mistakes because I liked the book that much.
I'm tired of books that take themselves too seriously and in the process forget that they were made for the reader. This book felt like walking in on private jokes amongst a group of friends and being included in that group.
I do have a lean towards urban fantasy with a healthy dash of black humour and a liberal smattering of nookie. This book fulfils all my needs and I liked it so much I bought the 2nd in the series before I'd even finished this one, so I could jump right in.
With a little spit and polish I'd give this 5 stars.
I'm tired of books that take themselves too seriously and in the process forget that they were made for the reader. This book felt like walking in on private jokes amongst a group of friends and being included in that group.
I do have a lean towards urban fantasy with a healthy dash of black humour and a liberal smattering of nookie. This book fulfils all my needs and I liked it so much I bought the 2nd in the series before I'd even finished this one, so I could jump right in.
With a little spit and polish I'd give this 5 stars.
April 25, 2013
The premise was interesting. At times, it was a bit sexual in terms of the focus of the narration. In addition, I regrettably must affirm what other reviewers have mentioned. It was clear that the ending would be a quick ending, simply by how close to the end the action actually began moving towards it, and in all honesty, the ending felt very rushed, as it was not given enough time to be set up, and one thing seemed to have not explanation beforehand. Still, the ending did at least leave some things open for a sequel.
January 31, 2016
3,5
Let me start by saying this is what i think PNR for men would read like.
What i really liked about the book were the well thought out characters, their relationships and dialog. At times it made me laugh and snort, other times it made me sad and compassionate.
While the plot had twists and turns the end was decidedly rushed and could have been polished more.
All in all, it was an enjoyable read and i would recommend it to readers who like urban fantasy.
Let me start by saying this is what i think PNR for men would read like.
What i really liked about the book were the well thought out characters, their relationships and dialog. At times it made me laugh and snort, other times it made me sad and compassionate.
While the plot had twists and turns the end was decidedly rushed and could have been polished more.
All in all, it was an enjoyable read and i would recommend it to readers who like urban fantasy.
January 17, 2014
Long...but made it through
I am not much of a syfy fan but did stick with the book to the end. it was ok, but ready for something new. It wasn't what I thought I ordered, so will be more careful in my selections next time.
I am not much of a syfy fan but did stick with the book to the end. it was ok, but ready for something new. It wasn't what I thought I ordered, so will be more careful in my selections next time.
September 28, 2014
I am all about fantasy stories, supernatural stories (esp. Stephen King) and fiction based on historical figures (i.e. King Arthur). This little book was engaging but to my taste a little "campy" for me. It was like supernatural beings meets 50 shades of gray. It was alright.
February 15, 2013
Not exactly what I thought it would be but it was surprising in a good way. A good blend of action, fantasy and romance. Will definitely follow. :)
June 30, 2014
Great Book
well I have to say it been awhile since I read a good book that was free and it was funny if u hadn't read this book give it a try
well I have to say it been awhile since I read a good book that was free and it was funny if u hadn't read this book give it a try
August 24, 2014
I really enjoyed this story. I had two different friends recommend this book and I loved it. Read it in one setting. It was a fun, action packed and a unique story. Definitely worth the read.
August 4, 2016
Jesus is not the equivalent of GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
just saying ;-)
just saying ;-)
July 11, 2014
pure escapism. funny. tongue in cheek. puerile. ends happily. very bloody, Christian message too.
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