Brekke K. (sfvamp) - , reviewed on 1/14/2013 + 108 more book reviews

It has been a while since I read Awaken Me Darkly (Alien Huntress, Bk 1), but I'm fairly sure I didn't enjoy it as much as Enslave Me Sweetly. I like Eden Black as a character and her love interest Lucius a lot more than Mia Snow and her beau. Eden truly is a competent assassin for which I give Showalter kudos. However, I really wish that the author would have allowed the UST to develop and blossom better. Eden and Lucius have a great introduction but their mutual dislike and unease with each other is quickly swept away by their massive need to have sex. A little sexual tension is good. So much that they can't do their job around each other and jump into bed is not so good. I really wanted to be made to yearn for their getting together. Instead it was all too easy. Besides that, the book is good and was written before Showalter started over-writing. It just isn't a keeper for me because the whole sex slavery thing is a huge squick of mine and well, doesn't have a place in my idea of romance.

Quick edit: Yeah, so I just reread parts of the book while I'm not on cold medication and realized that it is pretty bad. I still think it starts off well, but the last half of the book is just too simple and unrealistic to be taken seriously. I'm downgrading this book from 3 stars to 2.

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