Not recommended - Rated 
i agree with the other reviews. the book started off oddly and then just got downright bizarre once the heroine hit Las Vagas. I actually gave up and only skim read to the end. Not only not a keeper but I have no intention of reading any further books in this series.
Not great - Rated 
Vampires and werewoves in Vegas- not a problem. I can cope with that- love it, in fact! The plot, however, leaves a lot to be desired. A very "scrappy" storyline: Our heroine's house gets trashed by a weatherwitch for some hazy reason, so she moves to Vegas, then jumps at the first guy she encounters in a local park. Hmmm...asking for trouble. Then, whilst still living in a motel room, she goes on to adopt a huge dog- again with no real reason except that it'll be put to sleep the following day if no home is found...
I can't say that this is one of the better books I've read, and definately NOT a "keeper". This one'll be headed to the charity shop in the next bagload.
Dancing with Dross- Negative Stars if it were possible! - Rated
I really wanted to like this novel, it seemed to offer the usual pre-requisites for solid urban fantasy; a decent sounding premise that was more paranormal mystery than paranormal romance, funky cover artwork, the recommendation of two of my favourite authors Kelley Armstrong and Sherilyn Kenyon, and of course the promise of werewolves. Despite all of these things and the fact that this is obviously a sell out item on Amazon; I will be retuning my copy to Waterstones - this is not only the worst urban fantasy I've read in ages but it's also perhaps the worst PUBLISHED novel I've ever seen.
Delilah Street is an orphan who grows up after the Millenium Revelation when supernatural creatures came out to the world at large (why did they come out then- who knows the book never sees fit to explain the timeline). Delilah grows up to be a TV news reporter who covers the paranormal beat, one evening after fending off the advances of her date vampire TV news anchor Ted, she watches a doppelganger being dissected on a television show and sets out to solve the mystery, and in a roundabout way ends up heading to Las Vegas, and seemingly discovers some supernatural powers of her own.
Right that's the plot as far as I can tell, I say, 'as far as I can tell' because the writing is so meandering, unstructured and so below par that its almost impossible to have an inkling as to what's going on at any given time. I am literally aghast to discover that Carole Nelson Douglas has had over fifty books published given that she seems to struggle with basic literary craft such as use of tense, not to mention the more complex craft of realistic characterisation, use of tension and pace,and of course plot structure.
This novel isn't just terrible because the ideas are bad, it's not even terrible because the protagonist is a one note cut-out, no it's absolute DROSS because the author doesn't have even the basic grasp of how to write coherently! I literally had to re-read lines and at times entire paragraphs because they made no sense. The action jumped around with no cues such as section breaks or punctuation and worse than this the tense and location would change mid-sentence leaving you struggling to decipher if the event was happening in real time or was a dream sequence or flashback!
Huge events that set the 'supposed' plot in motion like the doppelganger on the TV show, Delilah losing her job, dog and house were not given appropriate page time and were whisked under the carpet instead of being developed further to clue the reader in to this specific world or Delilah's character. I think after having read nearly five hundred urban fantasies over the course of the past few years that I'm more than qualified to tell you that this one is one to avoid, it's not just bad it's absolutely awful - to the point where I would be tempted to write to the publishing house and ask how they could publish such a confusing, irritating mess!
Delilah isn't fit to be classed as a kick ass heroine; she's a self-pitying and narcisstic whiner who goes on and on ad nauseum about her 'black irish' pale good looks being a magnet to vampires. Firstly, you're not Black Irish unless you're born in Ireland, okay?! Otherwise you're just an incredibly pale drama queen with a narcisstic bent, and secondly rather than a pale complexion being an aphrodesiac to a vampire I would have thought that vampires would have been more turned on by a florid complexion that signifies plenty of blood and a good circulation?
Awful rubbish, do yourselves a favour and buy something else. I wouldn't even recommend this if it were going cheap or to be borrowed from the library it's just too poorly written. Buy yourself something by Toni Andrews, or Jim Butcher if you want a good mainstream urban fantasy.
dire - Rated
This book is a mess. The plot rambles and is pretty incoherent. The author brings in several plot strands only to leave them to peter out unresolved - I suspect this is intentional to bring in a cliff-hanger quality for future book in the (presumed) series. Save your ££ people, there's much better urban fantasy out there.
bizarre, weird and irritating - Rated
ok... i agree with one of the other reviwers- this is really oddly written. Can't believe Kelley Armstrong AND Sherrilyn Kenyon thought this book was fabulous and wonderfully written.
She keeps rambling on about being really pale and 'black irish'. Seriously, unless you're born in Ireland, you're not Irish. Your parents or ancestors may be Irish, but you're not. If all it took to be vampire bait was being pale (as she mentions time after time after.. you know the drill..) i'd be dead 100 times over.
Anyhow.. I'm trudging through this cos i refuse to waste the money, but unlike the other books i bought on the same day, it's a CAN-put-down book, and i haven't stopped studying for my degree for it, which is a shame.
There are a lot better books out there;
Kitty and the Silver Bullet by Carrie Vaughn
the delectible No Rest for the Wicked and Wicked Deeds on a Winter's night(both Immortals After Dark books-fabulous series by Kresley Cole!)
Halfway to the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel by Jeaniene Frost
Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark Hunter series
J R Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood series (hullo young man...!!! lol)
Seriously, ... try something else.
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