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I think Cherie Priest said, “hey, this paranormal vampire action stuff is popular – I could write one of those!” (or two… or three.) And she did. And it is actually really quite good. Unlike, say, the ‘paranormal vampire action’ book I read last year by Chloe Neill, which was just NOT GOOD. As opposed to the one in that book, Priest’s vampire heroine is witty, clever, relatable and cool. I can’t help feeling that there’s some authorial wish-fulfillment going on there, but hey – it works for my wish-fulfilling tendencies too. I feel like this book was written very quickly – but it also reads very quickly. It’s not Priest’s best, deepest book – but it’s good fun. I’d highly recommend it to fans of the True Blood TV series (more so than the Harris books.)
It’s action-packed, it’s got a mystery to solve, the Southern, flapper, investigator and professional thief, vampire Raylene is bad-ass and hip, and who won’t be won over by a sexy undercover ex-Navy SEAL turned drag queen?