Performed by Rosemary Rogers
Dorchester Publishing/Love Spell Books/Books in Motion
Paranormal Romance/Dark Fantasy
Paranormal Romance/Vampire
Paranormal Romance/Shape Shifter
Unabridged Audio Book
Rating: 4
Vampires and werewolves are bitter enemies until someone starts killing vampires in Crimson City (formerly known as Los Angeles), framing vamps and weres alike. Weres and Vamps are on the verge of signing a peace pact so these murders are adding to the stress already present between the species as they try to meld their different ways.
Keeli Maddox, grand daughter to the grand dame alpha werewolf and Michael, vampire vendix (punisher) team up to investigate the crimes in hopes of finding the killer. Their hopes are to find the killer before the accusations prevent the coming peace treaty from falling apart. Subterfuge is the name of the game with both species scheming to gain the upper hand.
Enemies not eager to work together, Keeli and Michael begin to discover many disturbing facts that bring them ever closer. Soon they begin to wonder... is it possible for a werewolf and a vampire to find love together with A Taste of Crimson?
One nice aspect of this story is that so many of the unfolding events are happening concurrently to the story in the first book, Crimson City. There are little bits here and there talking about events in the previous story while this one is happening in another part of town. Action is never ending in A Taste of Crimson, whether we are in the tunnels underground where the werewolves live, or on the streets mixing it up with the humans. Suspense levels are high as we follow along with Keeli and Michael as they investigate leads and try to find the killer before any more vampires die. The discovery of the killer is not quite as surprising as it could be however for savvy readers who follow the clues.
Keeli is an incredible heroine - spunky and tough with a soft underbelly she protects from all others. Michael is the strong silent, stoic type who's been scorned by his own kind for things beyond his control as a young vampire. These two make a great team and you’ll be cheering them on to find the happy ending they both desire… together.
The Crimson City series is a compelling urban fantasy series and I can’t wait to see what happens in book 3.
© Kelley A. Hartsell, January 2008. All rights reserved.
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I read this one
a couple years back, because I like Marjorie Lu. I liked this book, but didnt realize it is part of a series, where each part is written by a different author. ....I havent gotten to the other books yet.
Terri
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so far, the first three seem
so far, the first three seem to be pretty stand alone so even reading out of order you should be OK. but the later books seem sto build off these ones. I know some stuff tht happened in book 1 comes up again in book 5 and the anthology i think.
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~eHQ April 2008 Member of the Month~
Yep...
The later books build upon the earlier books but the first few are stand alones. Excellent series!
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I really
I really enjoyed this series and was why I bought the other Liu books to begin with. I still have the Anthology to read. Need to read it soon.
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anthology
I still have that one to read as well.
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