Reviews and Comments

How irritating, that I have to pause there, of all places. (To say more would be a spoiler, I guess. Speaking of, don't go read any "reviews" for the next book.)

I'm enjoying the character development in this series.

This book started out a lot more like the books in the beginning of the series, with Anita being a US Marshall and working with the police and hating doing things "like a girl." (I get so tired of the misogyny in these books, which is funny, because they're written by a woman about a woman. Sometimes, we're hardest on ourselves.) But it devolved into hours and hours of sex, some more "education" on polyamory and BDSM, and then what felt like kind of a rushed attempt at resolution of the cop plot.

Not Hamilton's best work.

Audiobook, or I'd give you a page count. It was MANY pages; I can tell you that much.

OK, I like this series again.

I didn't love this one as much as the ones before it, but neither do I feel compelled to drop the series.

Still, I find myself surprised at how much I like these books. I enjoy the characters. There's one kind of troubling thing, which is hard to discuss without spoilers, and of course the whole society is set up in a really weird and unfair way (I still have some hope that this will be resolved), but overall it's a fun popcorn reading experience.

I had kind of low expectations when I picked up this book. The combination of "vampires" and "high school" is not promising, in my opinion, despite its recent popularity. But so far it has turned out to be much better-written, with a lot less domestic abuse than the Twilight series. There's a little bit of depth (still not much, but the bar in this genre is low) to the characters, and I sense an overthrow of an oppressive system coming up, which is always a great theme in YA. I'll keep reading.