I thought this book was fairly okay, since the paranormal stuff was more of the focus rather than the mystery stuff. I thought who the vampire killer was became completely obvious on page 198 (of the hardcover....and there was a total of 306 pages), so I was kind of tempted to call it quits at that point. I kept reading though since I was curious how things would play out with Nikolaos and what was happening between Jean-Claude and Anita (no, it was nothing romantic for anyone reading this post that didn't read this book). I expected some sex in this book, since I've heard that Hamilton can go kind of overboard on that angle, but there really wasn't ANY at all, so I guess that is just a turn the series takes later.
One thing that irked me in this book was when she referred to wererats as lycanthropes. Lycanthropes are werewolves. Period. It comes from the Greek "lyc" meaning "wolf" and "anthrope" meaning "human". Wererat would be whatever the Greek for rat is, followed by "anthrope". Wererat is still correct though, since "were" stems from an Old (?...maybe Middle) English word for human. It may seem like a minor quible, but I like my paranormal stuff well researched so this just gnawed at me every time the author used it incorrectly.
At the present time, I do plan on continuing to read this series, but depending on where it goes, I may not get hooked on it and could drop it at some point. If it stays super mystery oriented, but with obvious answers to the mystery, I'll probably dump it, since I'm not big on mysteries anyway. If it goes other directions, I'm more likely to keep following it.
Enough of my thoughts. Anyone else read this one? What did you think? |