First off just let me say that I truly wanted to like this book. I really did! I was in love with the cover, the description of the summary, and even though I had seen many mixed reviews about the book, it sounded like a story that I could really enjoy. 
 Before I start ranting about all the aspects of the book that I didn't like, let me begin with what I did like. 
 I really enjoyed the author's take on vampires. Having already done some research of my own, I was already aware of the legend of Lilith and Cain and how they spawned the vampire race. I was pleasantly surprised when I read that and was happy to see a new take on vampire lore. Yay for no sparkling vamps!!! :D 
 Okay, so the story started out great and I thought that it would stay amazing throughout. Well to my sad, sad disappointment, I found that fairly quickly, my interest in the book was dwindling. I kept reading, hoping that the book could somehow win back its appeal, and it did later on, but only briefly. I think that the author's voice was too overly sarcastic for my taste and was one of the main reasons I think the book was so quickly ruined for me. 
 Now here's the bit where I'm indecisive on how I stand. Sabina. Oh where to begin? Well, I guess I should say that I loved how much of a bad-ass she was. But there was just something that I disliked about her that I couldn't quite put my finger on. Perhaps she was too perfect? Too whiny? Or maybe she was to vain about how bad-ass she was? Who knows? It could have been all three! Either way that was a bit of a disappointment. 
 And then the final battle scene. Erm, cliche much? Well ok only the dialogue was cliche but that kinda ruined the whole scene for me. So this is kinda how it went down...(all paraphrased of course but it went something along these lines) 
 Evil Villian: Silly girl! Oh you're so silly to think that you could kill me. Oh how you make me chuckle with giddy amusement *evil cackle*. 
 Sabina: Hmm...well even though I should probably kill you because so far through this book I've shown how heartless and unsympathetic I am, I'm just going to send you to hell so you can be tortured by demons even though you'll probably escape after awhile and ya know somehow I just don't have the heart to kill you right now. 
 *POOF* <--just sent him to hell 
 Evil Villainess: My only regret is that I should have killed you when you were born, Sabina. Now you will die!!! 
 Sabina: My only regret was how long it took to see how evil you were. You're going down beetch!! 
 Evil Villainess: *evil cackle* <--really now?! What's with the villains and their evil cackle? 
 And in the end the Evil Villainess get's sent to Siberia of all places so that she will 'suffer' but seriously?? She's a freakin powerful vamp!! What were you thinking Sabina? Oh but I have to share this bit as well...(btw this part is not paraphrased. These are the actual lines from the book) 
 Evil Villain: "I'd be a fool to let you live." 
 Sabina: "You're already a fool." 
 Me: >.> *ahem* LAME!!! *ahem* *cough cough* 
 'It was lame and I knew it but I was too busy trying to figure out how to overpower [him].' 
 Me: Really? I mean come on, acknowledging that it was lame dialogue doesn't make it any better!!! At that point it just looks like an excuse because the author couldn't think of any better for the characters to say. Sabina's a freaking assassin!!! She shouldn't have to stall him with lame-o dialogue before making her move. Now I'm not sure if corny 'good vs evil showdown' dialogue annoys any of you guys or if I'm just being too harsh here, but I really think that the author could have done a much better job with this scene in all respects to dialogue. 
 Yeah so that was a bit annoying but now with all that said, I kinda stopped caring towards the end of the book. I just sort of skimmed through the dialogue and whatnot just trying to finish the darn thing! I'm sure that some people might like this book but it just didn't do it for me. I definitely won't be buying the sequels but perhaps if a friend loans them to me I'll give the author a chance to redeem herself.