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Books and Bikinis Reading Challenge - read 10 books about mermaids, the sea, the beach...by the end of the summer! hopefully soon!
(7 out of 10 read)

Please be patient with the fewer and far-between posts....we have a new 'half' born in April and things are slow as we adjust and try desperately for more sleep. (It's a girl!)

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Midnight Predator, by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Midnight Predator, by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Young Adult, 2002

From fantasticfiction.co.uk:
Turquoise Draka is now a hunter, committed to no higher purpose than making money and staying alive. In a deadly world of vampires, shape-shifters, and powerful mercenaries, she'll track any prey if the price is right. Her current assignment: to assassinate Jeshikah, one of the cruelest vampires in history. Her employer: an unknown contact who wants the job done fast. Her major obstacle: she'll have to mask her strength and enter Midnight, a fabled Vampire realm, as a human slave. Vulnerable and defenseless, she faces her greatest challenge ever.
Raspberry:
Already a fan of Atwater-Rhodes, I hadn't read the Den of Shadows series, of which this is a part (the 4th book). Don't let that stop you, however, they're all individual in their stories and don't require that you read one before another. I really enjoyed this action-packed gutsy plot. I wish it had been more fleshed out...it felt short and lacking in details that I wanted, and in the end I was hoping for more closure for Turquoise. However, the characters were good, the writing decent, and it kept my attention the whole way.
Graded a B.

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