Rating: 4/5
This book was sexy, intriguing, and suspenseful!
I was eager to read about a supernatural Scotland Yard, vampires, and nefarious villains but I was not prepared for how much this book would keep me on the edge of my seat! In general, the characters were very genuine and relatable. The scenes were described beautifully. The internal dialogue was well done. I had no idea what was going to happen, which was exciting. As the story went on, it began to feel like an old James Bond movie. It was sophisticated and beautiful.
The story begins with Jasmine and her fellow Scotland Yard agent, Twitch, locked up in the lair of Marcel, an arms dealer. He has abducted them in order to coerce Twitch to help him with some sort of nefarious plot using complicated technology. Jasmine is used as a pawn of sorts to get Twitch to comply. They will hurt or kill her if he doesn't do what they ask. She meets a man who appears to be a henchmen of Marcel's, Eric, who she senses is a vampire. Twitch and Jasmine work to get out of Marcel's lair and Jasmine is caught by the vampire. They spend the next few days trying to figure out exactly what Marcel is up to and stop him before it is too late...
Overall, this book was beautiful and engaging. My only complaint was the editing. There were quite a few punctuation errors and word misuses. It might have gotten a higher rating from me if those things were fixed.
I probably will see about getting the next two books in the series! I loved how the story was written!
Grammar/editing: Abysmal/Poor/Needs Work/Good/Excellent
There were many instances where commas were missing, which detracted from the flow. There were words that misused ("to" was used instead of "too," "breath" was used instead of "breathe," for example.) The editing did seem to get better as the book went on, however. And overall, it didn't leave a bad taste in my mouth and was fairly easy to overlook because the story was good.
Violence: None/Mild/Medium/Heavy/Extreme: There was not much explicit killing or blood and gore in this book. It is implied that a man was frozen to death and later found dead in a river. There are a few mild fight scenes with blades, and someone get's their spine snapped at one point. There was no extreme violence or excessive or needless killing.
Profanity: None/Mild/Medium/Heavy/Extreme: There was quite a lot of language in this book, but the main character vampire often points it out to Jasmine and chastises her a bit for it. The F-bomb is used in both it's appropriate context and as a curse word a multitude times. "Arse" and "shit" are also used extensively.
Sexuality: None/Mild/Medium/Heavy/Extreme This book does contain several erotica scenes so those who might be turned off or offended by that should steer clear. I will say that I feel like these scenes seemed well balanced and not over the top or unrealistic.
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