Still definitely not impressed with the writer or the characters. I can honestly say that the urban vampire genre is not being written for the male audience. Fortunately, I didn't feel the need to look for sparklies in this book, though the small town willingly ignoring anyone who isn't normal definitely grated on my nerves. It's not realistic, especially south of the Mason Dixon line.

Dead to the World
Vampires get a positive spin. Werewolves get a positive spin. Magic users continue to get a bad rap. I must say it was nice to finally have a "Fight" scene, though this author did it little justice. A plot started within another book gets fully resolved within these pages, though it creates another, more annoying plot in the next book. At least, with this novel, it felt like one complete and continuous plot, rather than a string of little ones that someone attempted to tie together.

Dead as a Doornail
Um, yeah. This book took the feel of "How many plots can I mash into the pages of a novel without screwing up the novel?" experiment. I'll admit the author has grown with her writing through the five novels. If she'd impressed me in the prior four, I MIGHT have given this novel a pass. Honestly, I can say that the final two plot resolutions felt anticlimatic after the primary mystery plot resolved. It took too many plots in one hand that weren't all related and tried to tie them together. It didn't work well. ( )