7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Vampire FBI Agent nearly loses her head, December 7, 2007
This is the first in a series based on a community of vampires who live at Clare Point, Delaware, trying to keep their existence secret from humans having fled vampire hunters in Europe four hundred years before. The Kahill clan, the inhabitants of the village, carry out their own kind of justice on various criminals but we don't learn very much about that. The main hook of the story is FBI agent Fia Kahill who is investigating one murder in Philadelphia when she's called to investigate a beheading in her home town of Clare Point.
When Fia arrives at Clare Point she discovers another FBI Agent from the Baltimore office is also assigned to the case. Initially suspicious of Agent Glen Duncan as he resembles her former evil lover, Ian Duncan, she soon finds that Glen is rather different. However, with another old lover, Joseph, causing her problems and more of the Clare Point vampires being separated from their heads Fia doesn't know what to do and how to solve the crime in her village.
The pacing was a little off with the story dragging through quite a large proportion of this book. The explanation of the vampire world was drip-fed to the reader which made it more interesting but also left me with quite a few questions as to how their lifecycles actually worked. The heroine, Fia, wasn't a particularly sympathetic character whose interactions with other people were usually cold and uninformative. I wasn't entirely sure how she had got her job with the FBI as she didn't seem particularly skilled or diligent in the work.
There were several plot threads in the story that weren't completed or were otherwise unsatisfactory. The past relationship with Joseph seemed to be looming large but then all that suddenly subsided; the relationship with Glen was never fully realised and the final scene where the vampire killer is confronted all seemed rather quick and easy. There were several side characters, such as Arlen, about whom there is presumably more to learn - I imagine these characters will be explored more in future books but it left this book feeling rather unfinished and disappointing.
The writing style was good, apart from the pacing issues, and the description of the strange town of Clare Point with its unusual inhabitants, and how they seemed to Glen, was well realised. However the overall story was rather a disappointment because the murder plot didn't feel central enough, nor did the romance, and the reader was left with rather a lot of filler text.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Nice Start to a New Series, January 26, 2008
I liked this book. It had a slightly different slant to vampires and how they lived and died. I liked how the romance between the two FBI agents progressed and am hoping to hear more of them in the following books. I felt that Fia was able to come to a resolution about the past relationships in her life and move forward. The ending was a surprise, I hadn't expected the killer to be who it was so that was a nice twist.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Loved it!, January 30, 2010
I loved this whole series of books. I just wish there were more! Just the right mix of Vamp, romance and suspense to make them "can't put it down" books!
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