A review by incrediblemelk
The Cold Kiss of Death by Suzanne McLeod
adventurous
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.25
This was holiday read 4, bought for $2 at the Apollo Bay op-shop, which I finished at home on the couch. Now it lives on my A-format shelf among the mass-market fiction I actually love to read.
I’d never heard of this series before and as this is the second in the series it took me a while to figure out the world and characters. It’s urban fantasy set in London, in which vampires not only suck blood but also inject an addictive ‘venom’. They have four fangs, total. Our heroine is a bean sidhe with a vampire dad, and she works at a kind of paranormal detective agency called Spellcrackers.com.
If you’ve read the works of Laurell K Hamilton and Charlaine Harris you know you are in for some bluntly written crime, paranormal political infighting between fae, witches and vampires, and sexy intrigue with a brooding vampire, kelpie and satyr. Lacks the wit and the strong sense of London history in Ben Aaronovitch’s Peter Grant series but it was soothing, undemanding holiday reading
I’d never heard of this series before and as this is the second in the series it took me a while to figure out the world and characters. It’s urban fantasy set in London, in which vampires not only suck blood but also inject an addictive ‘venom’. They have four fangs, total. Our heroine is a bean sidhe with a vampire dad, and she works at a kind of paranormal detective agency called Spellcrackers.com.
If you’ve read the works of Laurell K Hamilton and Charlaine Harris you know you are in for some bluntly written crime, paranormal political infighting between fae, witches and vampires, and sexy intrigue with a brooding vampire, kelpie and satyr. Lacks the wit and the strong sense of London history in Ben Aaronovitch’s Peter Grant series but it was soothing, undemanding holiday reading