Blood Crossed: A Piper & Payne Supernatural Novel, #1 (Netherworld Paranormal Police Department) has great reviews on Amazon, enough that I paid $2.99 to read it. That was a mistake.
Blood Crossed uses the trope of a police department dedicated to protecting us from vampires, werewolves and assorted supernatural evil villains. The main character is Piper, a young woman, supposedly immortal (we don’t know how), who with her new partner Reaper Payne (also immortal and not human), goes out to capture vampire Gallien Cross who escaped from secure confinement. So far so good.
Unfortunately neither Piper nor Payne nor the two wanna-be Retrievers that Piper is to evaluate are particularly interesting. The world building could be good but authors Logsdon and Young race us through the back story without taking time to let the set up take shape. The writing isn’t bad, and the dialogue is reasonably decent at moving the story along, but the lack of character depth an superficial world building leave me cold.
The authors have a sequel with even better reviews and ratings, but I shall pass.
2 Stars
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