Series: Argeneau, #1
Traits & Tropes: kidnapped hero; heroine with a phobia
Publication Date: 10.25.05
Genre/Setting: Contemporary/Paranormal; Toronto, Canada
Heat Level: 2
Rating: 3/5
Narration Rating: 2/5
Lissianna is a vampire who faints at the sight of blood, a pressing problem that limits her independence. When her mother presents her with an attractive man on her birthday, she thinks he’s meant to be her donor for dinner. Dr. Gregory Hewitt isn’t sure how he wound up in a stranger’s bed, but he finds her so attractive that he doesn’t question it as much as he probably should. But the doctor isn’t there to be a snack, but rather, her mother intended for him to help Lissianna overcome her phobia. With the connection these two have, Greg may stick around for more than just a quick session.
It took me quite a while to get into this book. I probably wasn’t invested in the story until about 40% into it, but I think that’s mostly because I wasn’t a fan of the narrator. There were varying pronunciations for several characters’ names and awkward long pauses that had me stopping to see if I’d accidentally paused the book on my phone and I just found all that distracting. Eventually, I did start to feel charmed by Lissianna and Greg and care about what happened to them, but even then, the vast array of supporting characters almost constantly interrupting or intruding on them made staying focused on their storyline a bit challenging. It’s very obvious that this is an earlier Sands and it’s interesting to note just how much the lore of the Argeneau world has changed and developed over the course of the series since this first book. I’m not sure why I decided to go start this series from the very beginning, but I was looking for something that would be funny and light-hearted, so it wasn’t a complete miss and I’m not sorry to have listened to it now that I’ve finished, though I probably wouldn’t reread it or seek to add it to my collection.
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