That seems odd to say because I did like the first book Halfway to the Grave and thought maybe I’d like the rest of the series about as much. The story is about a half-vampire, half-human anomaly (Catherine “Call me Cat” Crawfield) hunting vampires on her own by perusing local bars and tempting her marks to their deaths. If you’re familiar with Bram Stoker and Anne Rice, you’ll find nothing new in this series. Generally speaking though, I’m willing to overlook most shortcomings if there’s a unique or new spin on vampirism, but there isn’t any of that here. I kept waiting for more revelations of otherworldly-ness, but they never came. This last one got to me the most because I read urban fantasy for otherworldly anatomy and physiology, which this series does not deliver. Furthermore, there’s thin world building, minimal mythology, and unimpressive monster pathology. Heavy plotting, lots of action, lots of sex and innuendos (not witty unfortunately), lots of cardboard side characters, lots of blood, fetishistic descriptions of blood, and high body count. So it’s a big deal when a book makes me quit the whole series due to character problems.
That doesn’t usually happen because I don’t follow a series just for the likability of the MC. Whether or not I “like” or “root for” certain characters is usually an afterthought. To top it off, it’s the main character that made me rage quit reading. The first book impressed me the two after it, not at all.
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