I really enjoyed "Nightshade" by Michelle Rowen and was truly looking forward to "Boodlust." So many times the second book in a series disappoints but I am happy to say this second book was equally as impressive.Jillian and Declan are on the run and living in one lousy motel room after another. After getting attacked while waiting for Noah she finally finds him. Imagine her surprise when Matthias is with him. He wants his daughter but Declan refuses to give up her location.Meanwhile, Matthias is attacked and the key needed to release his brother is taken from him. Noah informs the group that he discovered that the older a dhamphir gets the crazier and mire violent they become. He also has the location of an adult female dhamphir, Jade, while us currently being held captive.As they go in search of Jade they are captured and will have to face the one person no one e err wanted to see, Kristofferson, former King and identical twin brother of Matthias.There is plenty of action, suspense, revelations and twists and turns in this little gem of a book. Once again I gobbled down the pages. My only sadness is this if the final book in the series. Wow. It probably tells you everything you need to know about my reaction to this book that when I bitched about the thing that most annoyed me about it, a friend asked me if I was finally reading Twilight.The thing is that the premise (a heroine who'd been injected with a serum that made her blood both irresistible AND deadly to vampires) had SO MUCH potential had it been handled skillfully. Alas, however, the serum also appeared to afflict our heroine with a complete loss of any sense of self-preservation whatsoever, along with frequent attacks of TSTL syndrome. She very quickly grew to be little more than a plot device and something for the two male leads (who were very slightly less one-dimensional) to be conflicted over.I get the impression this might have been a better story if instead of a heroine, the book had instead had some kind of inanimate (or a least non-sentient) plot McGufffin that both attracted and killed vampires. Then the lack of self-preservation, competence, and indeed, characterization, wouldn't have been so obvious by its absence; and the two hot guys could have ended up with each other.Quick! Fanfic to the rescue!
What do You think about Soif De Sang (2013)?
I really enjoyed this book. It was a roller coaster of emotions.
—Jess3999
