frahhn 's review for:

Secret Vampire by L.J. Smith

3.0

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I'm going through and re-reading the Night World series, and this is the first one. I originally read them out of order (I started with book two, Daughters of Darkness and skipped around from there), so I appreciate more now how the world is set up for the reader and how the soon-to-be major characters are introduced. I still don't feel like enough of the world is established in this book. It needs more meat. The writing is okay, but I enjoyed the story more once I focused on the events over how they're told.

It's one of my lesser favorites in the series, and I'm basically re-reading it because I bought the three omnibus' currently in print---it came out to 3 1/3 dollars a book so I went for it.

It's not a bad book, but it doesn't do much for me. I hope the other ones live up to my memory.