I was pleasantly surprised by this conglomerate of literary genres. I have read some saccharine, idealistic, predictable, unpleasantly gender-stereotyped romance novels (thanks Kresley Cole) and I was bored and pity-laughed most of the way through. Soulless actually has an intriguing plot with romance as a side-character (but when it's there, IT'S THERE). I even found myself smiling at the over-the-top one-liners. Outside of the book, these one-liners would have been eye-rollers, but inside the character of the writing, they were goofy and laughable because they were so bad.

Apparently, this series becomes much more fantasy instead of romance, which could be another reason why I liked it.