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Re-read April 2016 - I'm feeling like this might be more like a 3.75 stars this time around maybe? Originally read Aug 2011 (no review) - 4 stars Brief notes/review from re-read: After the action at the beginning of the book, the next part reeeeeeally dragged. I don't know why but there seems to be a lot of "stuff" added into these books that doesn't seem to have any use. The romantic sub-plot is very disappointing. There's a strange love triangle with the werewolves but I can't really feel anything for either. I can see that Mercy would care for and even love Samuel due to their history, but in that way that you probably always care for a first love but don't remain IN LOVE with them...of course, even though this is glaringly obvious, it takes her quite some time to realise this herself... Then there's Adam, who seems to possibly be a good match for Mercy, as he is protective without being over-bearing, but we really don't know enough about him. Maybe because we only have Mercy's POV? It doesn't seem that Mercy and Adam know each other either - we're told that she even loves him in the second half! But based on what? Their relationship seems to just be skipping all the fun stages! Like the first book, I feel kinda cheated about this part of the plot. We hear about Ben a couple of times here but I'm still interested to find out more about him - what's his story? And I'm still mildly annoyed at the repetition of the info-dumping - why tell me this stuff again? It's not that important and really not the kind of thing I would have forgotten from the first book! And if you are new to the series, why would you start with Book 2?? These are not standalone books. I enjoyed the vampire plot and mystery in this one, just a shame that the niggles I had from Book #1 are still present.

2023-07-16 23:32