Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I can't finish it. I'm sorry, but it is so tacky and cliché. I will read a little, and then decide "nope, can't do it", and then come to return it for a refund only to be reminded that it was free. So then I will read another book, need something else to read, and think "oh, it can't be that bad, I'll trudge through it", and get a few pages before giving up again. It is such a badly written, clichéd vampire romance. Like to the extreme. Everyone is ridiculously hot and irresistible. Sydney was ridiculously horny--she is always going out like she HAS to have sex or...well, I don't know, it never says. It is almost like the later Anita Blake ardeur (blech). But in this book it is just tacky and superfluous. It doesn’t have great beginning that the AB books had (man, I mourn for those books—they went off the rails so badly, I can’t even skim them just to find out what happens to the characters I liked so much!) And the story so far is wildly inappropriate. One of the first scenes, Sydney (police detective) has just gotten to a scene with a dead body-a woman tortured, tattooed, and killed. She is standing over the body while the medical examiner (also insanely hot, apparently) talking about the murder, and I think literally in one breath they are talking about how utterly horrific the death was, the next talking about how they want to screw the (yes, insanely hot) vampire detective, and then the next talking about the unbelievably horrible death in front of them. Then Sydney goes off on a mission to have sex with some random guy she hopes to find at a bar where she normally has sex with random guys. Of course she does this between looking over the body at the beach where it is found, and then meeting with the ME at the morgue. I'm sorry, who would logically thing "SEX" at that time? And plan it out? I get the disassociation that police officers get, but this is way beyond what is appropriate. Standing over the body, talking about her hot partner: “yeah, you’re right about that. There is a whole lot of sweetness there, but tasting his candy would not be good for my career. Ada, I just need to get out and satisfy my needs…Can you tell that I’m a little distracted tonight?” “Well, girl, you have about 5 hours to satisfy your needs, and then you need to get your ass down to the lab. I’ll bag her up, start the autopsy, and get the trace out. Now, look at this thread.” The thread, btw, was on a body that had been in the water. And they are looking at the body in the dark, on a beach. That is totally believable. The vampire detective, of course, Sydney inexplicable hates for some reason, while at the same time lusts after him and wants him like fire wants oxygen. She will think such horrid things about him, and in mid thought change to how much she wants him (and saying she ‘wants him’ is far too mild of a term, but I can’t think of what else to say to convey the over the top desire she has for him-it is even beyond the mating draw of most books like this). Through half the book (as far as I've gotten) Sydney is half in love with her partner (well, almost unbearable lust, anyway, but doesn’t act on it because she is all about her career. You know, when she isn’t about random sex with strangers), lusts after the owner of the bar (she uses him for sex), and then Kade the vampire detective (who, in the Vampire romance world is the ultimate cliché vampire-Hot powerful alpha male and Rich), and of course will take any random guy. And more cliché--everyone LOVES Sydney and wants to do her as well-the detective partner (but he won’t act either, because he doesn’t want to hurt their partnership (gag)), the bar owner (who regularly does meet her sex needs, and half loves her and would marry her in a moment, but then is fine and thinks it is cute when his friend Kade claims her as his), and Kade. Sydney…eye roll. She is a tough as nails police detective. Bad ass bitch, take no shit, police detective. Smartest person in the universe. Bitter, not a lot of friends, issues apparently. All the usual female lead damsel in distress but don’t you dare feel sorry for me to try to help female. But to read how she stutters through talking to Kade when she all of a sudden like a whiney little school girl with a crush? Ugh, so bad. I really wish some authors would really read some good books once in a while, and see that there can be a happy medium with these women—there is no woman out there that is a combination of the toughest chick on the block, that turns into the sappiest pretty little butterfly in a relationship. It is just annoying! “Kade, I am falling for you too. I…I don’t know what this all means, but I want to explore this with you…our feelings, our relationship. I can’t believe I’m even saying this, but last night, was incredibly special. My feelings for you overwhelm me…my senses are overloaded. I want you so much I can’ think straight. Kade, you call to me. I want to taste you now, can’t wait.” Seriously? Right before this you were pissed because he dared be on the phone for two minutes and couldn’t talk to you (although he did blow a kiss and wave), so you left him and went to meet the bar owner who you just had oral sex with the day before. Really? That is how you work? And for the record, women don’t have to dress like sluts all the time. A police detective in a strappy sexy sundress and sexy comfy heels (is there such a thing?)? Um, no. And I don’t think we really need to know each time she puts on a thong. An, the sex isn’t even written well. And then what is the point? It’s like it is written by someone who has never had good sex, only read about it, and this is how they think people want to read about it happening. And good Lord, the way they talk during sex. It’s laughable, seriously. So tacky and juvenile. I’d quote something from that here too, but it is too bad. I realize that this is a rambling review. I apologize. I should start taking notes when books are really bad, so it can be more coherent. =)