Bloodline by Maggie Shayne

Synopsis:

Lilith awakens cold, naked and alone, knowing nothing—not even who she is—except that she has to run, run for her life…because someone is after her.

When Ethan discovers the terrified woman hiding on his ranch, he knows immediately not only who she is, but what. He’s never forgotten her, not in all the time since he escaped their joint prison, a clandestine CIA facility where humans are bred into vampires willing to kill on command. He refused to accept that fate, and since he won his freedom he’s become a legend to those he left behind. With her own escape, Lilith has become a legend, too, and now—together—they have no choice but to fight those who would become a legend by killing one.

Okay. I picked this book over the weekend at B&N. It’s been a while since the last time I purchased a book of any kind that didn’t relate to research or crochet. I thought that I would enjoy reading it. I had never read a Maggie Shayne title before so I figured why not give it a shot.

I think I should have left the book on the shelf.

I has some issues with the overall writing of the story that marred the experience for me. First off, everything from Lilith’s perspective is written in the first person. Everything else is not. And while I can see this style of writing working in other books – it simply did not work for me in this book. It was constantly jarring experience to go from POV to another. I didn’t feel that it did anything for the story and quite frankly detracted from it.  Leaving me unable to make any connection with the characters, let alone care about what happened to them. It made my brain hurt. And this genre should not make my brain hurt.

The story itself felt more like it should have been part of a large picture, and it may well be. (I think it is part of a trilogy.) Unfortunately, I won’t be reading them.