from the "Hot Picks" area of the library although it was clearly not the start of the Guardian series. I think it's book six or something. Unfortunately, I don't think this was a good place to start.
There's a complex world system set up, with all sorts of strange creatures -- Guardians, vampires, demons, nephilim, etc, all with different rules and origins and motives. That wasn't the problem; I enjoy figuring stuff out from the middle. But this book is more a paranormal romance than an urban fantasy -- the backbone of the book is the romance, with the action adorning that. And the romance didn't work for me; I suspect that the previous five books had lost of background building up the problems between Rosalia and Deacon, but since I skipped that I didn't feel it. And their only conflict was a lack of communication and an overload of angst -- Woe is Me, I am Unworthy / He could never trust me after THAT / She says she loves me but I cannot believe she MEANS it / blah blah blah. There was so much time spent on their mutual undeclared love that the complex plot for the destruction of the bad guys got buried. I know it was complex because everyone told me so a million times. I think I missed some of the complexity, because everything fell out easily in the last fifty pages. I bet if I had been in on the story from the beginning I would have cared more for the people, but this book doesn't make me want to run out and get the rest. C+
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