I can totally understand Kass' fascination with her. The book makes her bigger than life yet humanizes her at the same time. :) Which is not to say it isn't hot, because it sizzles! I love Lenore even though she is a vampire.
Its more of the one-look-and-you're-mine variety, which I suppose, is typical of non-human romances. After all, 'Investigator' is the title of the book.Īs for the romance, there isn't really any, in the traditional sense. Maybe if she had actually spent more time in the field investigating the case, especially the missing person one. I know that even hotshot PIs make mistakes but it doesn't do the mystery justice if the reader can see through it but the main character can't.
There were no surprises in the case at all and one can pretty much guess who the guilty party might have been from the very first time the name came up. And the rest of the time, Kassandra was either called to the scene, stumbled onto it, or was dragged into it. If I recall correctly, it was just one time. :) Which isn't to say that there was a lot of investigating going on. On the other hand, her werewolf-y sense of smell is uncanny, and is undoubtedly her "secret" investigative weapon of choice. But this gift rarely came into play, and wasn't much help at all in figuring out the good guys from the bad guys, or even, what two alluring ladies' intentions towards her were. She is also built up by the book to be something of an empath-someone who can sense other people's feelings. But on her very first investigative outing in the book, she drags someone armed to the teeth with her, lol. Kassandra is built up by the blurb to be a hotshot paranormal PI who likes to work alone. The result is, surprisingly, the opposite of what I expected.
Also, the promise of a good crime story might mitigate somewhat the less-than-appealing romance. Its hard to dissociate blood and cold skin from death, Twilight notwithstanding. Paranormal stories involving vampires are my least favorite form of romantic fiction.
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