I read a couple of the other reviews and still read the book. Also I didnt read dire needs first, so had no expectations. I am not sure want everyones beef was about the book. Its a novella, no there was no underlying romance that entailed a brief steamy sexcape. There was no rushed plot and anticlimatic resolution because there was no harping on the hero and heroine's reason for not wanting to be together and their make-up sex. Or their happily ever after. This was a novella about a situation that presented itself to the Dires and how they worked together to keep the supernatural community as a whole from being exposed. It built on the characters that would most likely appear later in books. And it left the future open for the book that was written before and after. My only beef with the book was the undefined beginnings and endings of different POVs. One minute I would be reading from Rifter's POV then get past a couple of sentence and realized that it was Vice, Marley or Jinx's POV. Other than that I enjoyed and flew through the novella and will now start Dire Needs. When I first started this book I found it confusing. The author spent a lot of time jumping from one character's thoughts to another. A few chapters in I finally found the rhythm and could figure out, who was who. Once that happened I found myself enjoying the story much more. It might take awhile to get into it but by the end of the story it's worth it. I'm looking forward to reading the next one in the series but will tell you that this really had no romantic story in it. It's almost feels like the first few chapters of a story that has a ending. A look into the dire world.
I thoroughly enjoyed this but sort of felt there should be a book befor this.
—ILoveReading
Prequel? Not exactly. Maybe read this after Book 1?
—ezio
Great start of the series!
—Sidney
helps explain the series
—Hannah0503
