Julie G. (desert-rain) reviewed on 9/27/2009 + 11 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 14

This was not a book on my wish list, but I picked it up at the book store and thought, "Well if I can get it off the swap, I'll give it a try."

I'm glad I did. I was surprised at how much I actually enjoyed it. So much so that I was ready to go pick up "Dayhunter" (book #2) and pay retail...something I never do. I didn't buy it retail but I did go pick it up as soon as I had a coupon.(gotta love Borders rewards!)

Mira is not your typical lead female. She is an admitted killer and she is perfectly OK with it. She might not do it all the time, and she might only make justified kills but she doesn't apologize for the enjoyment of it. She accepts her responsibilities, but on her terms and she knows she has enemies because of it. She's happy in her ordered world and wants to stay there. Unfortunately, all good things come to an end and they do so with a smack in the face.

Then there is Danous, the male lead. He's hard, sexy and something of the silent type. He's also a little narrow minded but his confusion when he's shown that things aren't necessarily as he's been told is almost amusing, before he hides it. He and Mira don't like each other but they do have chemistry and are thrown together as reluctant allies. At one point, Mira makes a humorous observation (paraphrased) "I was spending so much time imagining how I was going to strip the skin from his bones I forgot how sexy he really is." The books has similar moments of humor that lighten the otherwise dark storyline.

Drake has crafted a world with it's own unique characteristics and twists. This is not a romance although there is the chemistry between the leads and Mira is a sexual creature. The biggest flaw I saw in the story was that sometimes it just bogged itself down in details and I found myself rushing through this to get to the next confrontation or dialogue. It kept me interested despite the slow moments and forced me to find time to read--and lately I don't have a lot of that. I haven't been able to start "Dayhunter" and it's killing me.

If you like Patricia Briggs "Mercy Thompson" or her "Alpha/Omega" series, you'll probably enjoy this series as well. I think Briggs is better, but Drake still delivers an engaging, fresh and entertaining story.

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