I'd been saving this book as something to look forward to after finals. It seemed like exactly the type of fluffy read that I crave after hours of pouring over stiff and serious academic textbooks. I was very pleased to find that not only did it give me exactly what I was hoping for, it gave me more. 
 The book is written by Carol Goodman, author of several mysteries and thillers, but for some reason this was released under a pseudonym. The original title of this was [[ASIN:B005VQFQMU Incubus]], so if you're one of the people who got the UK release, this is the same book. (Just want to make sure that nobody picks up the same book by mistake!) 
 While this is shelved as a paranormal romance, I was pretty enthused to see that like others have said, it does tend to take on more of an urban fantasy feel at times. The sizzling hot sex scenes are what really reminds us of its PNR classification and I'm glad to say that the sex scenes are chock full of chemistry and sexy goodness. They're well written, which is good since a poorly written or even worse, boring sex scene can absolutely ruin a book and its tone. It's the smaller elements of this book that really make it come to life, such as the iron mice (Ralph!) and the magical creatures that abound in Fairwick, both known and unknown. I'm really hoping that some of my more favorite characters (such as a certain vampiric professor) will show up and be fleshed out more in the future volumes. He's just a good example of one of those characters that aren't really dwelled upon in the books but you can't help but get drawn to them nonetheless. 
 The only drawbacks is that at times I kind of felt like reaching into the book and giving our heroine a good hard shove for being a little overly oblivious to everything. Some of it I could rationalize or overlook, but some of the bigger plot elements were so obvious that they all but had a neon sign blinking "sinister" or "obvious plot point" over their heads. Normally I wouldn't really be so picky about this, but I really enjoyed this book and the details here are so rich that I can't help but hold it to a higher standard. 
 Overall this is an absolute treat to read and I really, REALLY can't wait to read the next book in the series. (I might even have to look into importing the next book if the UK ends up getting it before we do.) It's the first part in a trilogy, so I'm pretty enthused about all of this being self-contained and not going on for umpteen million volumes. (Although it seems like the type of thing that the author could go back and revisit once the trilogy is over, however.) This is just a really fun book that I know fans of Kim Harrison, Charlaine Harris, and Sherrilyn Kenyon will probably like.