3.5 Stars
Cassie and Alexi have managed to bring a little normalcy to
their sons life. Alexi is pretending to be a human with a sun allergy making it
possible for him to permanently work the night shift at the local hospital,
while Cassie is Mum to AJ. The rules have been broken since Cassie knows Alexi
is a vampire but he has failed to kill or change her, this makes certain people
not very happy and puts all of them in danger.
I had been a little reluctant to read and review this book
because I had received some negative feed back over my review of the first in
the series ‘Man of my Dreams’ and worried that if this title had the same
editing issues I was going to be in for more stick! Luckily GQ had realised her
work could be significantly improved with the help of an editor and has decided
to go down that route, so hopefully my comments this time around will be
considered less harsh!
This book started at the beginning and gave us all the
background information we needed to understand where the vampires came from and
why they could only appear in dreams. I was glad of this explanation because I
had found it a little difficult to get my head around in the last book and
can’t help but wonder if it would have been better to include this as a
prologue in ‘Man of my dreams’ instead (or as well) just to help the reader.
I have to say when I compare the writing between both books
in the series they are completely different. In B2 the spelling and punctuation
mistakes are few and far between and the whole structure of the sentences makes
the writing flow much better. As far a plot is concerned there are similarities
to other Vampire stories I have read so I don’t find it all that unique. For
example the V rules that state once a human knows the secret they must be
turned or killed (a little ‘twilighty’) the fact that the good vampire only
killed criminals (also like Edward had done in twilight before he turned
‘vegetarian’) I hate to harp on about one book reminding me of another but I
can’t help myself, I am searching for a unique read and want something fresh to
hold my interest, I haven’t found that here.
Be careful what you wish for is and enjoyable quick read,
the cliff hanger ending shows there are more books to follow and I would like
to finish up the series to it’s conclusion as I am beginning to know the
characters well now.
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