Romance and other things

Genre: LGBT Vampire Paranormal

Related Title: What to Buy for the Vamp Who Has Everything

Adam's an undercover vice cop dealing with a dark past. He's no stranger to bad nights; in fact, he's lived a lot of them. But he won't survive this one. First, a drug deal he's working goes south. Then his partner and sometimes-fuck-buddy Peter has to watch him bleed to death. But the kicker: he's not sure what's worse. Watching Peter cry over him or waking up undead.

Peter's a good cop in love with a bad man. Or a bad vampire, now. Watching Adam die was the worst thing he could imagine. Until he woke up. Now their relationship's in crisis. Adam's in the middle of a vampire enclave at the center of Los Angeles motorcycle clubs and Peter just can't hack it.

Adam thinks he's fine with that. He's a commitment-phobe. But he's about to discover, immortality is seriously the suck.

Review:

So few days ago I found in my TBR a story by AM Riley which I have not read yet. This was so weird, but I was so happy. While I was as always impressed how she manages to create the characters which both effed up and so likeable, I think the story overall is my least favorite by her. All relative of course - I would still rank it on top of so many stories.

Adam as blurb tells you has plenty of bad habits, and he thinks that Peter is his friend with benefits and had been for over a decade. Did you get yet that Adam is also delusional as to what he and Peter are to each other? Yeah, Peter crying over him dying may have clued him in, but apparently not quite. I was happy at the end of the story that he became less clueless and Peter did too, but there is no tight neat bow. They just going to continue their relationship yay :)

Have I mentioned that through interesting circumstances Adam became a vampire when he died and that is why he didn't?

Now what issues did I have? Okay, one I think was a story telling issue - I thought villain was telegraphed really in an obvious way. It worked as a suspense for me, but as a mystery it really did not.

Another one was really my issue - at some point of my reading career I really liked vampires but then I got really sick of stories with them, and then I slowly started reading them again, but not reading many, only very few. then I realized that as long as there are no graphic descriptions of blood drinking, etc, I am fine and this story has some of those. Just my squick