Because the Night

Skye is just doing her job, checking out a property that her company manages, when she’s attacked by Lucas. Her whole life becomes “other” and it’s quite the ride! A drop dead, literally, vamp who’d cause her heart to beat if it still worked, a coterie of entertaining vamp “siblings” and you’re in for a truly fun read

I really wanted to love this but the heroine has little to no agency or personality in this story. I barely remember her name after finishing the book .This author typically has kickass heroines who don’t let their men walk all over them and that’s all this heroine did. The huge power imbalance between her and the love interest was never addressed. At one point Skye blatantly says that he needs to learn about consent and then the rest of the book it’s never resolved. He basically doesn’t take no for an answer and just uses her overwhelming lust at being a newborn vampire into essentially bullying her into sex. And then he gets her expensive gifts afterwards and it gives me the worst taste in my mouth. There is essentially no emotional payoff either considering Skye loses her life as a mortal, and id thrust into a world of vampires where she’s constantly under threat. She spends the entire book completely numb and even when we hope to see some kind of flash of motion from her it lasts for a page. Even in a scene where she’s crying her eyes out I feel nothing because Skye feels nothing. I was more interested in the cast of characters around the couple in this book who are wonderfully written than I was in the actual romance between these two people. I skipped the sex scenes, which is unheard of because I love high heat romances. But with the heroine basically checked out for the entire book, she was essentially a cardboard cut out for Lucas, she could’ve been replaced with any woman and he would’ve been fine . There would’ve been no change in the story .This is a such a fluke as I am a huge fan of the author’s contemporary romances. Hopefully, if she returns the genre, she can bring some of her energy and flair from her contemporary romances into the paranormal genre, but this just wasn’t a good showing of her normal talent