Angel's Blood by Nalini Singh

I have to admit that I don't normally seek out these types of books — not so much the paranormal romance genre, but the erotica aspect. Still, I'll try anything once and after begin lent Angels' Blood by a friend, I settled down for my first taste of what I knew would be a somewhat Mills+Boon-esque novel, at least with regard to the relationship between the protagonists. From the first page I knew that I was in for a heroine who would fail the Mary Sue litmus test: if the name Elena Deveraux wasn't enough of a giveaway, we're told straight away that she has "pale, almost white hair" and had "inherited dark gold skin from her Moroccan grandmother." This is a somewhat indiscreet look for a covert bounty hunter, but I was committed to seeing it through to the end.

So Elena is a vampire hunter, part of a guild of hunters that specialize in the retrieval of runaway vampires who ... Read More