Within the first couple of chapters I could see that the author wasn't 100% sure what she wanted from her character, the main character contradicted herself a few times which is irritating as a reader. For example, she notes that she gets paid very well for her job because of her unique abilities however she lives in a crappy house because she cannot commit to a large purchase (why she could not rent a better place is a question left unanswered) and she, literally 2 pages after noting her high salary, says that she cannot afford to lose another iPod. Further, she drinks on her way to work, and notes that she is surprised when a fellow passenger actually tries to report her since that normally doesn't happen, but a few pages later says that she doesn't usually drink at work. I get what the author was trying to do, she wanted to give the character a nice big chip on her shoulder to work through. My issue is that she did it in a way that makes me feel as though she thinks the readers are too dumb to realize that the character doesn't make sense. 
 The best way to describe the protagonist is that she has a chip on her shoulder the size of the Grand Canyon. She is angry and bitter - which can work in stories (see White Trash Zombie), but in this case, it was hard to not want her to just die off and take all of her negativity with her. In the beginning we weren't given much of a reason to care for her other than her being the protagonist (I don't consider her insistence on "I'm not a racist in comparison to everyone else that surrounds me" to be endearing). She also tries to make herself sound better by saying "at least I took the government job for searchers instead of the lucrative private job" - well that's dandy. . . why? It seems like she just has crappy work ethic and wouldn't have made it anywhere else anyway. Again - you aren't giving me a reason to care about the character. By the time we were given some real reasons to begin to care about the character I was about 150 pages in (e-book version) - which is just a little too late. It also didn't help that the character would discuss how much she doesn't care and then complain that her ex never realized she was always a good person underneath - don't tell me, show me. 
 All that being said, at about 150 pages, I had a pretty bad impression of this book, but the action picked up around this point and that helped a lot. The remainder of the book was actually good and I did enjoy it. I just wish the author had given us reason to care about Annabelle in the beginning. The story left a nice big plotline open for a sequel and it left enough issues unresolved that the author should be able to continue with the story nicely. At least with the next book we won't have the contradictory characterization of Annabelle since we have already established her character.