I'm not one to go through the whole book and give my take. This series would not be the hits and best sellers that they are if they were bad.
I devoured the first three. Loved the tension between Merit and Ethan.
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When Ethan died I cried and cursed the author. I didn't know how she would bring him back but a few things, like so many others, SERIOUSLY DISAPPOINTED ME to the point where I was thinking what the hell.
Merit's grief when Ethan dies is way too brief. He loves her and she loves him and in two weeks it's back to business ... that too quick wrap up was a disservice to the great characters that Ms. Neil created. Merit's quick recovery from her grief was awful, heartless and empty. It was like the author needed to come to an ending fast so let's just move on to the next book. Awful.
Which brings us to Ethan's rise from the ashes and their reunion. Again, these two characters , apart for months, have a brief emotional reunion, discuss the politics of the house ( I was scratching my head thinking what ????? ) and then we move right into a sexual reunion that feels completely emotionless and totally lacking in pAssion, which was what this couple always exuded. Here's Merit , having the gift of her lover and heart returned against all odds and she is still fearing for her heart. Although that reaction is brief as the reader, again, you're like wth. Then the reader doesn't get to see merit and Ethan's physical reunion in the sense of what Merit is thinking holding her beloved again. Here we have another view of the author rushing things along in order to meet a deadline or at least that's how it feels. The most emotionally intense parts of these two books, losing Ethan and his return, are treated as... whatever.
Shame on you Ms Neil for treating your readers and the love between these two great characters with such cavalier disregard.
I'm getting nervous about the future of this series.
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greenthumb
3.0 out of 5 stars
Bad bad bad ... and then there is Merit
Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2016Verified Purchase
D. Lilly
2.0 out of 5 stars
Very Disappointed
Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2011Verified Purchase
I have followed this series from it's inception, have read hundreds of paranormal novels, and well over a hundred and fifty vampire romance books and this one left me perplexed and dumbfounded. I don't know why the author took this series in the direction she has, but if this is all she has left in her for the series, count me out. I'm one of the once clamoring for the next book in a series to come out so maybe the author bent to publisher time lines and fan pressure and simply didn't think out this edition before rushing it to press.
I have yet to see a staked vampire reduced to a pile of dust who has risen from the ashes. Turning Mallory into a power hungry despot only added to my angst. And we are left in the end with the risen vampire and the key character riding off on what appears to be an extended venture to Omaha? This storyline centers around Chicago, red hots and the local scene.
Save your money fans, maybe the author will revive the series from the dead too in a future installement, but in my opinion, reading this one was a total waste of time.
I have yet to see a staked vampire reduced to a pile of dust who has risen from the ashes. Turning Mallory into a power hungry despot only added to my angst. And we are left in the end with the risen vampire and the key character riding off on what appears to be an extended venture to Omaha? This storyline centers around Chicago, red hots and the local scene.
Save your money fans, maybe the author will revive the series from the dead too in a future installement, but in my opinion, reading this one was a total waste of time.
MsGonzo
3.0 out of 5 stars
Kind of disappointed
Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2012Verified Purchase
I'd seen the positive reviews for the Chicagoland Vampire series but after being burned by another fave author gone off the resevration, I was VERY hesistant to pay 12.99 for the Kindle versions of the series. Finally I gave in and found myself rewarded by a great series for the first 3 books - I literally couldn't put my kindle down it was that addicting and I felt that the money was well spent. When Ethan was killed in book 4, however, I was literally STUNNED and like many others had to go back and re-read what had happened because I couldn't believe what had happened. I then read the reviews and saw that it wasn't just me and then also saw where people were holding onto Ms. Neill's request that the readers trust her. With that in mind, I read Drink Deep but must agree with others that it just dragged for me, I simply didn't enjoy it the way I'd enjoyed the prior books and yes, I realize that Merit was going through the grieving process so it had to be different from the prior books but it just didn't work for me. I also agree that Mallory's defection to the dark side came out of nowhere, I get that Mallory was becoming more testy and secretive but for her to sneak into the Master Vault TWICE while she was comforting her grief stricken friend who'd just lost her lover seemed WAY out of character from what we'd learned about Mallory. Then she planned to destroy the world and neither her best friend, or more importantly, her lover who lived with her every day and knew that she was learning magic never got the least bit suspicious that she was dabbling in something dangerous??? As smart as we know Catcher to be, he never got a whiff of something off, REALLY??? And then the worst part: Ethan's return. I would've preferred that she left him resting in ashes rather than bring him back the way he was brought back. It felt very contrived, rushed, simplistic and just overall VERY disappointing. It was a risky move to kill him off in the first place and one, at least at this point, has not paid off. What was the point of killing him in the first place? For what was ultimately delivered, he could've been put in a coma or something else where the whole "he's dead and gone" thing wasn't absolute. To reduce him to ashes but tell us that he was in between worlds or something like that just didn't ring true. And while readers love to be left hanging on waiting for the next installment, sometimes you just want some damn closure and again, in this respect, the author did not deliver. To the contrary, I'm not excited to find out what happens with Mallory AT ALL because the logical ending will be VERY sad and if we manage to get a "happily ever after" on that front, it will feel REALLY contrived.
At the end of the day, no one is more invested in these characters than the author and I have to believe that she knows what she's doing. That said, I'm not sure I'm interested in sticking around to see how it ultimately plays out. I can admit that might end up being my loss, but I no longer feel invested in these characters so that's a risk I may be willing to take.
At the end of the day, no one is more invested in these characters than the author and I have to believe that she knows what she's doing. That said, I'm not sure I'm interested in sticking around to see how it ultimately plays out. I can admit that might end up being my loss, but I no longer feel invested in these characters so that's a risk I may be willing to take.
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AyJay
3.0 out of 5 stars
Has Chicagolands Vampires lost it's bite?
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 2, 2012Verified Purchase
** The order for the series is Some Girls Bite, Friday Nights Bites, Twice Bitten, Hard Bitten and Drink Deep **
I have to be honest and admit that I was a bit disappointed by DRINK DEEP. The series up until this point has been pretty solid, the previous book in particular was extremely enjoyable and had a surprising ending. So I was consequently expecting this Chicagoland Vampires entry to hit the ground running and keep on throwing twists at me.
Once again Merit partners up with Jonah [the Guard Captain of Gray House] as she goes undercover for the main plotline. In the last book I thought that this partnering up and cross House cooperation was a exciting glimpse of the future directions in the series, but in all honesty I find Jonah's character dull now we've got to 'meet' him and know him a bit more fully. And the fact that the author has pushed the other secondary characters to the sidelines in order to feature him more prominently, has lead to me coming to suspect that he's going to serve the author in another round of 'all these hot men want me, but I just can't make up my mind' fun and games. In short; I began to dread seeing his name pop up in the book, as he could derail the way all of the plotlines so far are running and building, which could make me lose interest in the series.
For the first third of DRINK DEEP the plot doesn't really seem to be going anywhere as the vampires have nothing to do with the problem of the blackened lake and, since they aren't magical, they don't know the answers to the who, how and/or why; Oh look, the lake is black. Oh, yeah, did group A do it? No, how about group B? No? Shrug, what should we do? There has to be a group C somewhere to pin the blame on. Sure, I suppose that it shows a realistic investigation, but it just brings to mind a group of kids trying to assign blame for a broken vase on each other.
Another problem I had is that I don't think that the receivership on Cadogan House is such a big shock. In fact, in some places, I can see things from the Greenwich Presidium's view, so I don't actually disagree with them on all of their grievances; as well as the issue of the new mayor [and her proposed supernatural register] there are other consequences to Merit's and Ethan's actions - which I won't go into here - that have spectacularly backfired and made life for all vampires harder. I don't think that the GP can honestly be made out to be the Big Bads - they're cleaning up and protecting ALL of the vampires, rather then just looking out for Cadogan House. So I do think Merit comes off as a bit whiny and self-absorbed in places. Sure, the person left in the house to check everything out doesn't like Merit and is trying to find a way to get rid of her, but she has shown no regard for the Greenwich Presidium's rules and is once again actively breaking them by disobeying a direct order.
But the biggest letdown, for me, in DRINK DEEP is that almost immediately I could tell who the culprit was and once I realised err, who the who is, the question of why they did it was easy to guess at. So I was impatient [and a bit bored] whilst I waited for the characters to catch up to what was pretty obvious to me.
Once I finally fully got into the story, I realized that there are still good bits to be found in DRINK DEEP, I just had to look a bit harder to see them...
We meet other supernatural races. Up until now we have only really seen the vampires interacting with shape-shifters and met a few sorcerers, so it is refreshing to get to see more interaction with some of the other supernaturals that share this series' version of Chicago. The humans only know about the existence of the vampires and shapeshifters, so we haven't really had the opportunity to explore the other species of supernatural beings before and I hope that the author finds a way to do it again. To be honest the whole vampires and werewolf mix is old and tired - every other fantasy book seems to d the same old thing.
Speaking of other species; the questions surrounding mayor Tate are very intriguing to me. I had thought his character was just a secondary one, who just served to stir up trouble, but now we see that he is the Big Bad. I can't wait to learn what exactly he is - I'll have to go back and read the earlier books, to try to spot any clues.
There are fur full-time guards working in Cadogan House alongside Merit, but up until now we have only gotten to know Luc and Lindsay. But now that Guard Captain Luc has now moved up in position and isn't involved in this book as much, we have more space and time to get to know Juliet and Lindsay as characters, not just as names tossed into the occasional conversation. Both characters have several scenes, when before they'd have one scene per book at most, which would add up to little more then "hi".
This is still an important entry into the series, but it is also the only book in the series where I found the pacing to be uneven, it's only after the first third of the book that I felt drawn into the story and from there everything speeds up madly - it reads as though the author realised she had almost reached her word-count limit, so threw everything together in a mad rush. Unfortunately the final few scenes are the most emotional and are meant to be shocking, but due to the sped-up pace and the fact that I already figured out the reveal, means that I failed to be saddened, overjoyed and/or shocked by the events.
For now I'm going to class DRINK DEEP as a one-off bump in the road and I still plan on getting the next book in the Chicagoland Vampires series, but I won't expect the same highs the earlier books delivered.
** Book six in the Chicagoland Vampires is titled Biting Cold [released in August 2012] **
I have to be honest and admit that I was a bit disappointed by DRINK DEEP. The series up until this point has been pretty solid, the previous book in particular was extremely enjoyable and had a surprising ending. So I was consequently expecting this Chicagoland Vampires entry to hit the ground running and keep on throwing twists at me.
Once again Merit partners up with Jonah [the Guard Captain of Gray House] as she goes undercover for the main plotline. In the last book I thought that this partnering up and cross House cooperation was a exciting glimpse of the future directions in the series, but in all honesty I find Jonah's character dull now we've got to 'meet' him and know him a bit more fully. And the fact that the author has pushed the other secondary characters to the sidelines in order to feature him more prominently, has lead to me coming to suspect that he's going to serve the author in another round of 'all these hot men want me, but I just can't make up my mind' fun and games. In short; I began to dread seeing his name pop up in the book, as he could derail the way all of the plotlines so far are running and building, which could make me lose interest in the series.
For the first third of DRINK DEEP the plot doesn't really seem to be going anywhere as the vampires have nothing to do with the problem of the blackened lake and, since they aren't magical, they don't know the answers to the who, how and/or why; Oh look, the lake is black. Oh, yeah, did group A do it? No, how about group B? No? Shrug, what should we do? There has to be a group C somewhere to pin the blame on. Sure, I suppose that it shows a realistic investigation, but it just brings to mind a group of kids trying to assign blame for a broken vase on each other.
Another problem I had is that I don't think that the receivership on Cadogan House is such a big shock. In fact, in some places, I can see things from the Greenwich Presidium's view, so I don't actually disagree with them on all of their grievances; as well as the issue of the new mayor [and her proposed supernatural register] there are other consequences to Merit's and Ethan's actions - which I won't go into here - that have spectacularly backfired and made life for all vampires harder. I don't think that the GP can honestly be made out to be the Big Bads - they're cleaning up and protecting ALL of the vampires, rather then just looking out for Cadogan House. So I do think Merit comes off as a bit whiny and self-absorbed in places. Sure, the person left in the house to check everything out doesn't like Merit and is trying to find a way to get rid of her, but she has shown no regard for the Greenwich Presidium's rules and is once again actively breaking them by disobeying a direct order.
But the biggest letdown, for me, in DRINK DEEP is that almost immediately I could tell who the culprit was and once I realised err, who the who is, the question of why they did it was easy to guess at. So I was impatient [and a bit bored] whilst I waited for the characters to catch up to what was pretty obvious to me.
Once I finally fully got into the story, I realized that there are still good bits to be found in DRINK DEEP, I just had to look a bit harder to see them...
We meet other supernatural races. Up until now we have only really seen the vampires interacting with shape-shifters and met a few sorcerers, so it is refreshing to get to see more interaction with some of the other supernaturals that share this series' version of Chicago. The humans only know about the existence of the vampires and shapeshifters, so we haven't really had the opportunity to explore the other species of supernatural beings before and I hope that the author finds a way to do it again. To be honest the whole vampires and werewolf mix is old and tired - every other fantasy book seems to d the same old thing.
Speaking of other species; the questions surrounding mayor Tate are very intriguing to me. I had thought his character was just a secondary one, who just served to stir up trouble, but now we see that he is the Big Bad. I can't wait to learn what exactly he is - I'll have to go back and read the earlier books, to try to spot any clues.
There are fur full-time guards working in Cadogan House alongside Merit, but up until now we have only gotten to know Luc and Lindsay. But now that Guard Captain Luc has now moved up in position and isn't involved in this book as much, we have more space and time to get to know Juliet and Lindsay as characters, not just as names tossed into the occasional conversation. Both characters have several scenes, when before they'd have one scene per book at most, which would add up to little more then "hi".
This is still an important entry into the series, but it is also the only book in the series where I found the pacing to be uneven, it's only after the first third of the book that I felt drawn into the story and from there everything speeds up madly - it reads as though the author realised she had almost reached her word-count limit, so threw everything together in a mad rush. Unfortunately the final few scenes are the most emotional and are meant to be shocking, but due to the sped-up pace and the fact that I already figured out the reveal, means that I failed to be saddened, overjoyed and/or shocked by the events.
For now I'm going to class DRINK DEEP as a one-off bump in the road and I still plan on getting the next book in the Chicagoland Vampires series, but I won't expect the same highs the earlier books delivered.
** Book six in the Chicagoland Vampires is titled Biting Cold [released in August 2012] **
C. Manning
4.0 out of 5 stars
Strange happenings in Chicagoland
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 12, 2012Verified Purchase
A storm is brewing over Chicago and with the city in turmoil and threatening to pass a paranormal registration act, Cadogan House is in a precarious position. All Merit wants to do is lay low for a while and lick her wounds but it seems fate has other plans for her when the waters of Lake Michigan suddenly turn pitch black. It's clear the darkest magic is at work and Merit must act as Sentinel and turn to friends, and enemies, new and old to find out who is behind this and stop them before it is too late...
This is the fifth book in the Chicagoland Vampires series (after Some Girls Bite , Friday Night Bites , Twice Bitten and Hard Bitten ) and I jumped straight into this after the OMG ending to Hard Bitten. I am so glad I had this on hand and I'd recommend anyone new to the series start at the beginning, but make sure you have this on hand when you start Hard Bitten because the ending is a killer.
There is a ton of world building in this installment as the weird events in Chicago force Merit to contact all sorts of supernatural races, both those we've met before and those we haven't. Every race gets more development from the nymphs to the fey and river trolls to sirens. It all works well and develops naturally within the storyline without any info dumping.
The book also features a heavy political aspect as the Greenwich Presidium have sent a representative to Cadogan House and he quickly pulls a Dolores Umbridge and starts taking over and insisting on bizarre unnecessary rules. The Cadogan vampires are somewhat struggling under the new management and this leads to a fair amount of friction. The Red Guard are also still courting Merit in hopes that she will join their numbers against the GP.
The book did feature a huge dent to my enjoyment in that I figured out what the cause of the bizarre events was within the first few chapters. This meant I spent most of the book knowing Merit was looking in all the wrong places and by the time she figured it out I was becoming frustrated with how she could keep missing all the clues. Other than that the storyline is well written on the whole and I enjoyed exploring more of Merit's world with her.
Merit is dealing with a lot in this installment after her loss at the end of the previous book. Mallory has tried to help her through but she is caught up with her magic training. Merit's way of dealing is to throw herself into her role as Sentinel and to support her friends Lindsey and Luc who have finally gotten together. Given Merit's state of mind a lot of the humour and snark of the earlier books is missing and I'm really hoping they return in the next installment.
All in all this was a fun read and I'm looking forward to Biting Cold .
Plot: 8/10
Characters: 10/10
Ending: 9/10
Enjoyment: 8/10
Cover: 7/10
Overall: 42/50
This is the fifth book in the Chicagoland Vampires series (after Some Girls Bite , Friday Night Bites , Twice Bitten and Hard Bitten ) and I jumped straight into this after the OMG ending to Hard Bitten. I am so glad I had this on hand and I'd recommend anyone new to the series start at the beginning, but make sure you have this on hand when you start Hard Bitten because the ending is a killer.
There is a ton of world building in this installment as the weird events in Chicago force Merit to contact all sorts of supernatural races, both those we've met before and those we haven't. Every race gets more development from the nymphs to the fey and river trolls to sirens. It all works well and develops naturally within the storyline without any info dumping.
The book also features a heavy political aspect as the Greenwich Presidium have sent a representative to Cadogan House and he quickly pulls a Dolores Umbridge and starts taking over and insisting on bizarre unnecessary rules. The Cadogan vampires are somewhat struggling under the new management and this leads to a fair amount of friction. The Red Guard are also still courting Merit in hopes that she will join their numbers against the GP.
The book did feature a huge dent to my enjoyment in that I figured out what the cause of the bizarre events was within the first few chapters. This meant I spent most of the book knowing Merit was looking in all the wrong places and by the time she figured it out I was becoming frustrated with how she could keep missing all the clues. Other than that the storyline is well written on the whole and I enjoyed exploring more of Merit's world with her.
Merit is dealing with a lot in this installment after her loss at the end of the previous book. Mallory has tried to help her through but she is caught up with her magic training. Merit's way of dealing is to throw herself into her role as Sentinel and to support her friends Lindsey and Luc who have finally gotten together. Given Merit's state of mind a lot of the humour and snark of the earlier books is missing and I'm really hoping they return in the next installment.
All in all this was a fun read and I'm looking forward to Biting Cold .
Plot: 8/10
Characters: 10/10
Ending: 9/10
Enjoyment: 8/10
Cover: 7/10
Overall: 42/50
Sarah (Feeling Fictional)
4.0 out of 5 stars
Chicagoland Vampires book 5
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 17, 2011Verified Purchase
3.5 stars
Please note that although this review won't contain spoilers for Drink Deep it is impossible not to mention a major spoiler for the previous book so if you haven't read Hard Bitten yet then you may not want to read beyond this first paragraph. I will say that the Chicagoland Vampires series is one of my favourites though so if you haven't started reading it yet you need to get hold of a copy of Some Girls Bite asap.
Cadogan House has been in turmoil since the death of their Master Ethan at the end of the previous book, Malik has taken control but everyone is struggling to accept Ethan's loss. Things are only made worse by the fact that the GP have sent receiver Frank to investigate the house and he is turning things upside down for it's residents. Merit is devastated by the loss of Ethan and blames herself for the way he died. When Lake Michigan mysteriously turns black and other strange things start happening it becomes clear that someone is playing with dark and dangerous magic. The humans are in uproar blaming vampires (and Cadogan House in particular) for what they see as signs of the end of the world so it is up to Merit to try and find out what is really going on. But can she get to the bottom of the mystery in time to stop it before permanent damage is done?
I have to admit after the emotional roller coaster of Hard Bitten I was scared to pick up Drink Deep. I had pre-ordered my copy and was over the moon when it arrived but then it took me days before I plucked up the courage to start reading. I was so shocked and horrified at the ending of Hard Bitten that I didn't know if I could bring myself to continue reading the series. I'm glad I decided to trust that Chloe Neill knew what she was doing though because although Drink Deep wasn't my favourite installment in the series I did still really enjoy it and am looking forward to getting hold of Biting Cold next year.
I have to admit I did really miss Ethan though, one of my favourite things about the series has always been the chemistry between him and Merit and I did feel like there was something missing without it. It was good to see more of Jonah though, I liked him in the last book but we get to know him a lot better here which was good. The first half of the book felt a little slow in places and it felt like I had guessed who was behind the magic problems very early on, I was hoping to be proved wrong but unfortunately that wasn't the case. Things really pick up towards the end but I felt some things were rushed over and I would have liked more of a showdown when Merit finally figured out what was really going on. The ending may not have come as a massive surprise but it did put a huge smile on my face and for that reason alone I can't wait for the next installment.
Please note that although this review won't contain spoilers for Drink Deep it is impossible not to mention a major spoiler for the previous book so if you haven't read Hard Bitten yet then you may not want to read beyond this first paragraph. I will say that the Chicagoland Vampires series is one of my favourites though so if you haven't started reading it yet you need to get hold of a copy of Some Girls Bite asap.
Cadogan House has been in turmoil since the death of their Master Ethan at the end of the previous book, Malik has taken control but everyone is struggling to accept Ethan's loss. Things are only made worse by the fact that the GP have sent receiver Frank to investigate the house and he is turning things upside down for it's residents. Merit is devastated by the loss of Ethan and blames herself for the way he died. When Lake Michigan mysteriously turns black and other strange things start happening it becomes clear that someone is playing with dark and dangerous magic. The humans are in uproar blaming vampires (and Cadogan House in particular) for what they see as signs of the end of the world so it is up to Merit to try and find out what is really going on. But can she get to the bottom of the mystery in time to stop it before permanent damage is done?
I have to admit after the emotional roller coaster of Hard Bitten I was scared to pick up Drink Deep. I had pre-ordered my copy and was over the moon when it arrived but then it took me days before I plucked up the courage to start reading. I was so shocked and horrified at the ending of Hard Bitten that I didn't know if I could bring myself to continue reading the series. I'm glad I decided to trust that Chloe Neill knew what she was doing though because although Drink Deep wasn't my favourite installment in the series I did still really enjoy it and am looking forward to getting hold of Biting Cold next year.
I have to admit I did really miss Ethan though, one of my favourite things about the series has always been the chemistry between him and Merit and I did feel like there was something missing without it. It was good to see more of Jonah though, I liked him in the last book but we get to know him a lot better here which was good. The first half of the book felt a little slow in places and it felt like I had guessed who was behind the magic problems very early on, I was hoping to be proved wrong but unfortunately that wasn't the case. Things really pick up towards the end but I felt some things were rushed over and I would have liked more of a showdown when Merit finally figured out what was really going on. The ending may not have come as a massive surprise but it did put a huge smile on my face and for that reason alone I can't wait for the next installment.
TS
3.0 out of 5 stars
Is this series running out of steam?
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 5, 2012Verified Purchase
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*Tried to make this as spoiler-free as possible*
Wow! What an emotional rollercoaster - which is what I've come to expect from Chloe Neill. I'm not going to lie and say that I'm not still feeling bitter about Hard Bitten's ending, because I am. What annoyed me even more was the fact that she tortured us by killing him off, and then we got the ending that we did in this book! Argh! I also had a few other issues with this book -
1. We all knew that ending was going to happen after Chloe Neill repeatedly told us to trust her.
2. I had figured out who was behind the bad stuff half-way through when Merit goes to visit this person in the basement. It was very predictable. (Trying (but failing) to make this review spoiler-free!)
3. The UK cover for this book is U-G-L-Y.
This series is the best adult UF series I've ever read, but this book just didn't do it for me like the others. Don't get me wrong Drink Deep is still a good book, therefore the rating of 3 stars, but the whole time I was reading it, it was just like there was something missing. It just wasn't the same without Ethan. I actually really liked Jonah, but lets be honest, who really cares about him when Ethan's in the picture?!
Did anyone else think 'is that it?' after reading 'the reunion' scene? I expected hawt reunion sex scenes, even just professing their love for each other would have been great, but no! What did we get instead? ..
"I don't know what to say," I told him.
"Then don't," he said, embracing me again. "Be still."
Really? You don't know what to say? You've been weighed down with guilt for the last two months, torturing yourself because you felt he was killed because of you, and then you don't know what to say to him?! I wanted to scream at her!
It just feels to me like this series is going in the wrong direction, most UF series get better as more books come out in that series, but with this series it seems to be going the other way. I'm definitely going to be getting the next book in the series, but there had better be LOTS more romance than there was in this book!
*Tried to make this as spoiler-free as possible*
Wow! What an emotional rollercoaster - which is what I've come to expect from Chloe Neill. I'm not going to lie and say that I'm not still feeling bitter about Hard Bitten's ending, because I am. What annoyed me even more was the fact that she tortured us by killing him off, and then we got the ending that we did in this book! Argh! I also had a few other issues with this book -
1. We all knew that ending was going to happen after Chloe Neill repeatedly told us to trust her.
2. I had figured out who was behind the bad stuff half-way through when Merit goes to visit this person in the basement. It was very predictable. (Trying (but failing) to make this review spoiler-free!)
3. The UK cover for this book is U-G-L-Y.
This series is the best adult UF series I've ever read, but this book just didn't do it for me like the others. Don't get me wrong Drink Deep is still a good book, therefore the rating of 3 stars, but the whole time I was reading it, it was just like there was something missing. It just wasn't the same without Ethan. I actually really liked Jonah, but lets be honest, who really cares about him when Ethan's in the picture?!
Did anyone else think 'is that it?' after reading 'the reunion' scene? I expected hawt reunion sex scenes, even just professing their love for each other would have been great, but no! What did we get instead? ..
"I don't know what to say," I told him.
"Then don't," he said, embracing me again. "Be still."
Really? You don't know what to say? You've been weighed down with guilt for the last two months, torturing yourself because you felt he was killed because of you, and then you don't know what to say to him?! I wanted to scream at her!
It just feels to me like this series is going in the wrong direction, most UF series get better as more books come out in that series, but with this series it seems to be going the other way. I'm definitely going to be getting the next book in the series, but there had better be LOTS more romance than there was in this book!
Mary S
4.0 out of 5 stars
If you like this series you will be wanting to read the ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 22, 2018Verified Purchase
A slightly more sombre start to the book after the shocking events of the last book. If you like this series you will be wanting to read the next instalment and find out how the characters develop.