3.5 stars 
 "Like so many women before me, I was a slave to the caveman brain, that deep old part of my DNA that whispered that ferocity would keep me safe, fed and alive and that I should most definitely find the fiercest creature around and hump it." HaHa! This is so funny. (view spoiler)[Leticia is thinking this while she watches Criminy kill a bludstag (hide spoiler)] 
 This was definitely different from a lot of the vampire PNR that's out there. The world building was written efficiently without redundant info dumps. The vampires here are called bludmen and they live under the oppression of the pinky's(humans). They have a deep hatred for the vamps and have taken away all thier civil liberties. I often wondered while reading this why the vamps didn't fight back, since they're so much stronger than the pinky's. Anyhoo, Criminy is not your average PNR loverboy. He's a jokester, gypsy, magician who leads a band of misfits in a traveling circus. Leticia is a pinky who has magically found herself in their world. Together, they go on a journey to find something she needs to get her back to her world. They run into many interesting creatures along the way. Most of the animals in this world are all vampires(bludstags, bludbunnies)HaHa! Their chemistry is slow burning, and although I really loved Criminy's playful humor and charm, I thought it sometimes hindered the emotional connection between them the author was trying to establish. This was a fun read that I quite enjoyed enough to want to read another in this series :)