Book 85, 2016
Nov. 2nd, 2016 10:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chez_jaeI brought my book home from the office tonight to finish. It was Out of the Night by Robin T Popp. It's a paranormal romance, featuring vampires and...CHUPACABRAS!
Librarian and volunteer firefighter Lanie Weber must travel to the Amazon to identify her father's body. She charters a flight with Mac Knight, who is a former military man, forced to retire due to injury. When they reach her father's jungle research lab, all they find are dead bodies and an odd statue in a cage. Lanie can't resist opening the cage to inspect the statue, which of course comes to life and attacks Mac. She manages to save him, but the chupacabra venom has turned him into a vampire-like creature. In addition, both her father and the man in charge of security have both become full vampires. Now, it's a race against time to stop Lance Burton from creating more vampires and building his own army of the undead.
Well. On the surface, it was an interesting story with some unique aspects, such as the chupacabra. It was neither dark and gothic, nor light and fluffy, but somewhere in between. Certain things annoyed me, however, such as the fact that Mac put pain pills in the shot of tequila he gave to Lanie to calm her nerves for the flight. Um, excuse me?! For all he knew, she could have been pregnant at the time. WTF? Also, Lanie just HAVING to open the damned cage, because, you know, the fact that something is locked in a cage isn't enough warning, yeah? There was a lot of UST between Mac and Lanie. Too much, if you ask me. Just fuck, already! Sheesh. And, how many times did Lanie stupidly bumble into danger? Good grief, woman. I prefer my heroines with more pluck and BRAINS, thank you very much. Also, the author portrays Lanie as a plain Jane at the beginning of the story, but near the end, she's a freaking Mary Sue that needs to beat her admirers back with a stick. *yawns* Changing povs were the norm. It wouldn't have been so bad to switch between Mac and Lanie, but several others were included.
Favorite line: Damn, it was good to be alive, in an undead kind of way.
It was a good book, but it could have been better. Three stars:
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Librarian and volunteer firefighter Lanie Weber must travel to the Amazon to identify her father's body. She charters a flight with Mac Knight, who is a former military man, forced to retire due to injury. When they reach her father's jungle research lab, all they find are dead bodies and an odd statue in a cage. Lanie can't resist opening the cage to inspect the statue, which of course comes to life and attacks Mac. She manages to save him, but the chupacabra venom has turned him into a vampire-like creature. In addition, both her father and the man in charge of security have both become full vampires. Now, it's a race against time to stop Lance Burton from creating more vampires and building his own army of the undead.
Well. On the surface, it was an interesting story with some unique aspects, such as the chupacabra. It was neither dark and gothic, nor light and fluffy, but somewhere in between. Certain things annoyed me, however, such as the fact that Mac put pain pills in the shot of tequila he gave to Lanie to calm her nerves for the flight. Um, excuse me?! For all he knew, she could have been pregnant at the time. WTF? Also, Lanie just HAVING to open the damned cage, because, you know, the fact that something is locked in a cage isn't enough warning, yeah? There was a lot of UST between Mac and Lanie. Too much, if you ask me. Just fuck, already! Sheesh. And, how many times did Lanie stupidly bumble into danger? Good grief, woman. I prefer my heroines with more pluck and BRAINS, thank you very much. Also, the author portrays Lanie as a plain Jane at the beginning of the story, but near the end, she's a freaking Mary Sue that needs to beat her admirers back with a stick. *yawns* Changing povs were the norm. It wouldn't have been so bad to switch between Mac and Lanie, but several others were included.
Favorite line: Damn, it was good to be alive, in an undead kind of way.
It was a good book, but it could have been better. Three stars:
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