Full version of review for RT Magazine: March 2012 edition 
 4 Stars 
 I think the best way I can sum up the concept of this book is: Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Underworld...with a dash of Blade for seasoning. If you can appreciate caustic wit and don't mind campiness, you'll probably enjoy this read. Thick with familiar, rehashed material, it's a smorgasbord of hackneyed supernatural themes. Baring that in mind, it's a good thing it doesn't take itself too seriously. 
 The book was well paced and very readable. I particularly enjoyed the voice--heavy laden with witty narrative and 'biting' sarcasm.(Please excuse the pun.) The fact that it featured a cool, detached, wise-cracking anti-heroine was a bonus. There are some terrific one-liners, and I had to applaud the snappy analogies used to ease the reader into the supernatural sub-culture. 
 The metaphysical insta-bond thing is interesting, from a descriptive standpoint. Though, by the end it began to seem like a substitution for genuine inter-relational development. The love/lust-triangle is so sex and sensory based, I don't really think it can be accurately called romantic--Secret hardly knows either of the men from the start, and little changes by the end. And the promise of said triangle becoming a square in future books didn't do anything to entice this reviewer further, personally. But on the whole, an entertaining read.