NEGATIVE 100 STARS. It was like watching a terrible B-Movie. As in you know it's cringe-inducingly awful but you still need to finish it because you're astounded that something this awful actually exists. The best way to describe my reading experience is to liken it to throwing up in my mouth a little bit for 300 some odd pages. 
 I mainly got this for smut (hey, at least I'm honest) and it was repulsive. Like demeaning and violent and I feel gross that this even exits. (view spoiler)[One time they referred to her vagina as her "feminine nectar." Ew! (hide spoiler)] I won't even get into all that gross nonsense in a spoiler because I don't want to type it let alone think about it anymore. 
 The author, Maya Banks, should be ashamed of herself. 
 The writing style in general was extremely poor. Its written in third person but kept changing perspective to different characters instead of having a true omnipotent narrator. It was awkwardly worded and littered with spelling an grammar mistakes. Frankly, I felt like I was reading the first rough draft of this. 
 OK... now it's time to talk about our "heroine" Evangeline. WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK IS WRONG WITH HER?! I'm flabbergasted that she has not been murdered about a million times! She walks home alone at 4 AM in New York City in high heals for Pete's sake! She's like the pretty girl in the horror movie who hears a creepy noise in her basement and then proceeds to go look in the basement instead of hopping the first nope train to fuck-it-ville! She has to be one of the dumbest, spineless, and useless characters ever created. Just thinking about her makes me physically cringe. UGH... 
 Normally, when there's a cliffhanger ending I still read the second book to see how things are going to shake out. Even if I completely hated the first book, I crave closure. This is literally the one and only instance where I simply cannot continue with this series. Both Drake and Evangeline are garbage characters and are better off without each other.