Still isn't my favorite series, but I think this book was a better than the first. The quest was my favorite part because otherwise the story would have been too much like one of a Nalini Singh's Psy-Changelling books just not as great. I liked the characters, the story was interesting but nothing extremely inventive, the lore behind this series is still a little iffy for me, but maybe it's because I have a personal distaste for stories that portrait humans as prejudiced mindless killers (it's too close to an ugly reality and when I read fantasy of any kind I expect to escape, so I'd rather not to be constantly reminded of how messed up humanity usually is). I'll keep reading the series, this is a very well written book. In fact, I think Larissa Ione is an excellent writer and one of her best traits is her creativity, which is not that apparent in this series so far, I hope that changes in the next installments. As leader of the MoonBound vampire colony, Hunter agrees to mate the spoiled bitch daughter of the neighboring ShadowSpawn vampire clan to free captured members of his clan. Rasha is everything Hunter hates, foulmouthed, vicious, petty, cruel...but she brings her identical twin sister to act as target on the journey to the MoonBound clan home. When vampire poachers try to kill Rasha, Aylin is targeted and they split and run. When Hunter meets Aylin he falls hard for her, and when she assists him in a deadly quest both are drawn so deeply to the other that it may very break both of them when Rasha steps in to take her place as Hunter's mate. Have you ever read a book so magical that you immediately HAVE to go back and read parts of it again just to float on that euphoric bliss cloud for a few more minutes? This series has done that for me! When's the next due in this series, huh, huh? LOL These are what we anxiously wait for!
