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This is mishmash of Star Wars (imaginary critters
living alongside humans) meets Men in Black (critter exterminators)
meets Twilight (vampire-human pairing, vampires not eating) meets House
of Night (dead in daylight, blood-lust, humans freely offering vampires
blood).
Danika Karson is a field agent with Supernatural
Prohibition, Extermination, and Arrest Regiment (SPEAR), in fictional Angbec.
She has the highest capture and kill rate on record. She is modelled to be a
badass, rule-breaking superstar of SPEAR. Largely based on all the
tough-boys-who-don’t-give-a-damn-for-rules heroes in action films.
Rayne is a vampire with a conscience. She doesn’t want to be
the nasty piece of work that vampires are and ends up trying to help Danika.
Other characters are Danika’s sister, Pippa, her mother, her
boss, her partner at work, a mayor, a mayoral candidate and a clutch of other
critters and humans.
We are so uncertain about this sci-fi urban fantasy.
We wanted to love the book, but we absolutely hated Danika.
There is no redeeming characteristic or quality in her.
We would like to hate the book, but there is so much
sweetness in Rayne and the romance she brings in to the book.
The action scenes are meh.
Confession: we had a hard time actually picking up the book
to finish it after reading the first 10%.
Would we recommend it? Hell, no!
Would we say steer clear of it? Mostly, maybe.
At the end of it: don’t pick it up...but if you have, and if
this kind of thing floats your boat, maybe.
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