Adult Paranormal Romance
Blurb
Addison Godwin is a Non-Glam—one of the one in ten thousand humans who is immune to vampire glamour and mind tricks. Her gift enables her to work as an Auditor, enforcing the law that vampires and humans keep their distance from each other except in a purely non-physical way. The law is necessary because when a vampire tries to have sex with a human their blood-lust combines with their sexual appetite and the result looks like road kill.
Alec Corbin is a Four Star Master Vampire with piercing blue eyes and intentions to get Addison into his bed. He promises he can be gentle but Addison has seen way too many vamp/human crime scenes to go for that. She has no interest in the six foot four hunk of sexy vampire man candy, even if he is supernaturally hot.
But just because she Audits (and sometimes executes) vampires for a living, doesn't mean she hates them all. Her best friend, Taylor, was turned against her will. Now, living as a slave to one of the crueler Master vamps in town, she leads a miserable existence and Addison is helpless to save her within the confines of the law.
Things come to a head when the Vampire Inquisitor comes to town and Taylor is given to him as a sex slave. When Addison sees her best friend tortured, beaten, and burned with silver she knows she has to do something—even if it means teaming up with Corbin and paying the Crimson Debt.
I gave this book a two out of five stars.
I read a lot of hype about this book online and the blurb sounded enticing, but the actual story? It was pretty disappointing. I didn't feel the connection between Corbin and Addison, heck, most of the time I wanted to reach through the screen of my kindle and strangle them. Addison mainly, she's a thick headed woman who, I'm sure, was suppose to be strong and independant but came across as whiny and foolish. Her prejudices toward the vampire race made it unbelievable that she could do her job effectively let alone try to be compassionate enough to try to help her friend who happens to be a vampire. The language used by the heroine also made her sound like a perpetual undergrad who has never grown up.
Corbin was great in the beginning but soon became a kind of character I would expect to see in the background- detached and not really a part of the story. Which he is the other main character so... It started losing my interest.
Not to mention the scolding father vibe I picked up from him; a huge turn off.
The sex scenes came across as cheesy and looked like nothing but page fillers; and the whole Master thing rubbed me the wrong way. It wasn't even Fifty Shades 'Master', it was a more sick version that had me cringing and quickly skipping pages to get past it. That coming from a woman who can usually read anything if you put the word 'romance' somewhere along the blurb.
The storyline felt incredibly short. About 50% through and it seemed like everything was taken care of- and for the most part it was. 80% and the rest is filled with sneak peek chapters for her next book, and others that she had written. This bothers me to no end. I mean if you want a preview to the next installment, go ahead, but seeing that it's suppose to be 300 pages about 60 of it is previews is discouraging.
This book was missing a lot and I'm kind of regretting spending the cash on it...
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