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Valley of Silence - Nora Roberts
A pretty average and very light fantasy. It seems a group of vampire hunters from our world have gone to another to help a queen fight an evil vampire queen. Including a vampire nightclub owner, and a couple of other supernatural types.

For a war against an evil vampire queen, well, there really isn’t much war. The evil vampire queen is pretty lame, too. Probably because she is a crazy girl that became a vampire, not really Lilith.

The battle at the end is over in about two eyeblinks. Pretty much it seems all this is kept out of it to have space for the romance parts.

Other than that, Roberts seems to be a decent enough writer, but I doubt she grew up reading about medieval warfare or monsters.

3 out of 5

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Playing With Fire - Gena Showalter
A slacker waitress has an encounter with a scientist, and this leaves her with the beginnings of the development of elemental superpowers.

She then comes into contact with an agent for the OASS, who tells her what has happened to her, and what the story will be from now on. He, of course, is no normal guy, being a superhuman shapeshifter himself. Naturally, he also gives her the horn, but has an ex-wife and kid to complicate matters.

Showalter seems to be able to put a bit more depth of plot into her books than some, that makes it easier to take.

3 out of 5

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I Thirst For You - Susan Sizemore
Another book of the largely lacking in plot variety. A Prime Vampire is the head tough male macho dude of a vampire clan. The one here is a bit stuck, and finds himself a woman because he needs blood.

He finds out she is psychically resonant of sorts, so ensues some bloodsucking, and lots of dream sex and the ‘you bastard you captured me but you are hot take me now’ sort of relationship.

In the second half, something actually happens. She starts to learn what is going on, gets away from him and into the hands of a vampire hunting group, including a human member of the one of the vampire clans that now has a bit of a grudge.

2 out of 5

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Hunted - Amelia Elias
A cop has a car accident. She is rescued by—wait for it—a vampire who was a nobleman way back when. How come none of these guys were carpenters?

She isn’t happy waking up in a strange bed in her undies. Apparently he is now bonded to her. Love tattoos at first site.

She resists, runs off, gets attacked by vampires of the kind he and his league run around slaying.

Mostly, she spends the book worrying if the clothes he bought her are too slutty and trying not to shag him.

A pretty pathetic excuse for a cop, this one.

2 out of 5

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