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3.89 AVERAGE
3.89 AVERAGE
This was good. I would have to put on par with Sookie Stackhouse. A nice, fun read with some vamps thrown in. *laughs* I will definitely be reading more of this series.
Quick read because I didn't want to put the book down. And I'm really grateful for this book because I was finally able to finish a book after not finishing a book for a while. I liked it and I'm definitely going to continue the series so it's a 3.
This is the first book in the “Night Huntress” series by Jeaniene Frost and it introduces our protagonist, Cat Crawfield. She’s half-human/half-vampire and her lineage is the result of her mother being raped by a vampire when she was a teenager. Cat grew up knowing that she was different from other kids, but not until she was in her mid-teens did her mother tell her about her parentage and why she’s stronger and faster and has better vision than any other kids her age.
After having her heart broken by a boy who slept with her once and then ditched her, Cat started hunting vampires. One night while out looking for a prospective victim, she meets a mysterious vampire who turns out to be the highly lauded Bones. He abducts her thinking that she’d been sent by one of his enemies to lure him into a trap and, once he realizes she’s not working for any of the vampires he’s after, he decides to train her to be his sidekick. Essentially, the plan is that she’ll be used as bait to lure in the vampires and once she has them alone, Bones will sweep in to get any information he needs and do the killing. Since Cat tends to act first and ask questions later, things rarely go according to plan; however, despite the fact that Cat has a habit of prematurely killing the vampires Bones needs to interrogate, somehow things usually work out. With Bones’s help, Cat becomes a hardcore assassin and their romance blooms as they hunt down vampire baddies.
I’m not a big fan of first-person POV, but I liked it in this case. I thought Cat had a snarky, funny voice and some of the scenes had me laughing out loud. While I did like Cat, one her biggest flaws was that she could be extremely close-minded and judgmental about certain things. In a way, you can’t really blame her - she was raised by a bitter woman who taught her that all vampires were evil and she’d never seen anything to the contrary until she met Bones - but some of the things she said and did really annoyed me. Other than that, I didn’t have any complaints about her and, like nearly everyone who’s read this series, I absolutely loved Bones. His dialogue was great and I liked the fact that he wasn’t the usual, emotionally closed-off type of hero. He wasn’t afraid to show his sensitive side and I appreciated that. I adore cold, dangerous heroes as much as the next girl, but I thought Bones was a refreshing change from the norm.
The plot wasn’t anything new or ground-breaking, but Frost has a good writing style and it all seems to boil down to the characters. No matter what is going on in the background, I want to read more about Cat and Bones. I’ll definitely be continuing on with the series. As a warning, though, this book is labeled “paranormal romance,” but it reads more like urban fantasy right up to the very end. Some people might not like this since not everything is wrapped up with a nice pink bow and our couple riding off into the sunset, but you should keep in mind that this is a series and so the ending is actually more of a “to be continued” than a true finale.
After having her heart broken by a boy who slept with her once and then ditched her, Cat started hunting vampires. One night while out looking for a prospective victim, she meets a mysterious vampire who turns out to be the highly lauded Bones. He abducts her thinking that she’d been sent by one of his enemies to lure him into a trap and, once he realizes she’s not working for any of the vampires he’s after, he decides to train her to be his sidekick. Essentially, the plan is that she’ll be used as bait to lure in the vampires and once she has them alone, Bones will sweep in to get any information he needs and do the killing. Since Cat tends to act first and ask questions later, things rarely go according to plan; however, despite the fact that Cat has a habit of prematurely killing the vampires Bones needs to interrogate, somehow things usually work out. With Bones’s help, Cat becomes a hardcore assassin and their romance blooms as they hunt down vampire baddies.
I’m not a big fan of first-person POV, but I liked it in this case. I thought Cat had a snarky, funny voice and some of the scenes had me laughing out loud. While I did like Cat, one her biggest flaws was that she could be extremely close-minded and judgmental about certain things. In a way, you can’t really blame her - she was raised by a bitter woman who taught her that all vampires were evil and she’d never seen anything to the contrary until she met Bones - but some of the things she said and did really annoyed me. Other than that, I didn’t have any complaints about her and, like nearly everyone who’s read this series, I absolutely loved Bones. His dialogue was great and I liked the fact that he wasn’t the usual, emotionally closed-off type of hero. He wasn’t afraid to show his sensitive side and I appreciated that. I adore cold, dangerous heroes as much as the next girl, but I thought Bones was a refreshing change from the norm.
The plot wasn’t anything new or ground-breaking, but Frost has a good writing style and it all seems to boil down to the characters. No matter what is going on in the background, I want to read more about Cat and Bones. I’ll definitely be continuing on with the series. As a warning, though, this book is labeled “paranormal romance,” but it reads more like urban fantasy right up to the very end. Some people might not like this since not everything is wrapped up with a nice pink bow and our couple riding off into the sunset, but you should keep in mind that this is a series and so the ending is actually more of a “to be continued” than a true finale.
Bones....I love you already. On to the next one.
This book is awfully silly. Luckily, if you know me at all, you know I'm a great connoisseur of silly, although this book isn't silly in the manner of Christopher Moore. Instead, it's the escapist tale of a half-vampire vampire hunter named Cat, who joins forces with a sexy vampire named Bones. Told in first person, the story is a sexy paranormal romance with plenty of humor, and there are aspects of it that Frost does quite well. Cat is a 22 year old college student, and is torn between seeking her independence and pleasing her family as many of us were at that age, though most of us don't have to deal with hiding our vampire boyfriends from our mother. Because Cat's father was a vampire who raped her mother, she was taught to hate vampires, but through meeting Bones she learns that not all vampires bite to kill. Seeing Cat's worldview change, and Cat herself mature over time is one of the joys of this book, as is her growing relationship with Bones. Bones himself has an interesting past, but his personality seems mainly to consist of using stereotypical "British-isms" (i.e. "luv," "bollocks," "shag") and both it and his appearance seem to owe an awful lot to Buffy's Spike. The writing here is very straightforward---for example, you have almost Cat's entire backstory by chapter two---and this isn't a bad thing necessarily, though there were times I wished Frost had used more subtlety in telling her tale. She frequently gives the characters long chunks of expository dialogue, which works fine though subtler methods could work better. Where other authors "sow the seeds" of plot developments that will become important later, Frost seldom does this; what she mentions at the beginning of a chapter will probably come important by its end. Still, this was an entertaining read, though I will probably save the second book for my next plane ride; it's the kind of writing that doesn't take a lot of concentration to follow.