I like it, but in a weird way it reads like an old film noir, not like the urban/paranormal fantasy that it actually is.

There's something cliche about Anita, she absolutely reminds me of early Buffy, but in a way she totally isn't Buffy. (And unfortunately, in this book at least, Jean-Claude reminds me of Angel, or more accurately of late Spike, when he is in love with Buffy, and starts to get what may pass for a soul).

Because of the name of the series is really hard to forget the comparison to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and I have read a fair amount of vampire books without comparing them to each other or the tv series. There's something in this book that kept that comparison in mind, and that's not very flattering to the writing.

This book reads, first has a detective story. And as far as the detective plot goes, it's not that good. It had that weird part were we are supposed to know as much as the detective (Anita in this case), but I got the solution before she even thinks that he is a suspect. At one point she is looking for a serial vampire killer AND for a series of people that have been kill... Connect the dots???

And dealing with a 1000 year old master vampire is just trouble and distraction to get the action going.

But the world is well written, the action has a really nice, fast paced action, with about 50 chapters at around 200 pages, so it reads a bit like a movie, going from scene to scene, without boring descriptions, but lot of red herring chasing, when the killer was in the first meeting with the vampire masters. ( )

Didn't really like it. It was hard to follow at times (or not interesting enough to keep my attention enough to follow, as I was listening to the audiobook). I was really put off by the fatphobia in parts of it. Based on the cover and title you'd think it'd be a romance, but there wasn't really any of that. Overall it just didn't make me care about the story or characters. ( )

Just okay. Didn't find the characters very compelling to follow. May or may not read more of these. Too much vamp going on in my reading list of late. ( )

So far I'm loving this series! Anita is great and I love following her around as she gets caught in the mess of vampires. I thought she was interesting and a very strong female character. Shes going to make a wonderful character to follow during this series and I can't wait to see more of her. My favourite part was how honest she was about herself. She admitted when she was scared but decided to do something about it. I really admired her for that and it makes her a really great character.

I was a little disappointed we didn't get to know any other character besides Anita but I think we'll see more of them in the next books (I hope anyways). I'm interested in seeing if there's going to be some romance happening because there wasn't much (if any) in this one.

The plot was quick paced though at times I found myself a little lost when something wasn't explained as good as it could have been. It was still a great start to this series and I'll be continuing with it in the near future. ( )

I love Anita and rereading this book seeing her at her grumpy start makes me kinda nostalgic ( )