The author describes this as a soap opera and after reading it I really do think that’s the most accurate interpretation of what it’s like to read this book.
If you’ve ever watched a soap opera, you know how every single person is somehow involved or related to every other single person? There’s never anybody who is “just some guy from work”. They have to be a relative or a love interest or a nemesis to at least half a dozen other main characters.
Now add vampires, demons, and witches.
Also like a soap opera, the characters are all important in some way – very rich or successful people only, please. They all have swanky apartments and dine at exclusive restaurants. I guess plot lines involving people who have to get up for work in the morning would have to move a lot slower, but these characters don’t seem to suffer any repercussions from being off work for weeks at a time.
And also like a soap opera they just… careen from disaster to danger and back again. A lot happens in this story. There is even an evil twin!
This isn’t deep literature, but it was a lot of fun to read. I’m an absolute dope for the misunderstood bad boy and the “good guy” who is actually kind of an asshole. (But never fear, he also gets his redemption arc.) The actual villain of the story gets their just reward and everybody lives happily ever after.
And if you like a little smut in your romance – Palmer does not shy away from the sex scenes.
All together a fun, fast read and I wold recommend it if that’s what you’re in the mood for.