Sexy, mysterious, and very clever in its art – way to go. Even Hubby picked it up and asked me about it. However, you have to balance the good with the bad, so let me just say, while I’m addressing publishing folks – ya’ll. Just warn me, because nothing makes me grind my teeth like knowing that the story isn’t really over, but it’s over for me for now until book 2 makes an appearance.

So: note to whomever makes these decisions: please give me a little hint that this is the start of a series? I mean, I don’t even care if you completely humiliate me and say something like ‘Note to whining pain in my ass Sarah: this is a series numnuts.’ That’s fine. I was so involved with the characters and the building tension and the storyline that to learn I wasn’t going to get my happy ending in its entirety really, really burnt my toast. And while I know better than to look the gift horse in the mouth and decide that it needs braces, I have to gripe about the ARCs I’ve read: if it’s book 1 of a series, how come it doesn’t bloody SAY that on the BOOK itself? I’m 30 pages from the end, and hello, a major conflict rears its head and I realize that it’s over but it’s not, and I totally whined in my own head: “Oh, no. This book passed the reading-on-the-bus test (wherein I look up from my book at Port Authority and go, “HUH?! We’re HERE? Nuh Uh!”) AND the take-the-book-out-of-my-bag test (wherein I ignore everything that is blinking and beeping at me from my laptop in favor of reading the book at home, which I rarely do).

Author Jeaniene Frost has written a kickass book with a heroine who fascinated me, a hero who was delicious, and a slowly escalating sense of terror and sexual tension that was very difficult to put down. I usually know to whom to address my grievances, but in this case, I don’t know. Genre: Paranormal, Romance, Urban Fantasy

Halfway to the grave book