**edited 12/08/13 
 Despite a ton of recommendations to try this, I've been avoiding this series like the plague. I've been burned more times than I'd like by urban fantasy novels with female protagonists--all to often, I discover that the innocent-looking UF disguises hardcore PNR, and paranormal romance with supernatural hunky males sends me running for a punching bag and a barf bucket. So, anyway, I have bad luck with female-protag UF even when the cover makes the protagonist look badass, and I figured any cover featuring a scantily-clad, provocatively posing female just wouldn't be for me. As it turns out, the cover and marketing does the book a huge disservice. 
 ...And that's all I'm going to post here. 
 The rest of my (rather verbose) review is posted over here at Booklikes. 
 Why? Because I disapprove of GoodReads' new policy of censorship, I am removing my reviews from GR.