Better than the last one, which was a real waste of time. 3.5 stars and I hope the series starts to pick up again. This was just good enough to keep me reading but I'm at the ready-to-ditch-the-whole-lot point if it doesn't start going somewhere better soon. This series started out good. It went downhill once it got picked up by TV.

And for the record, the books bear no resemblance to the True Blood series apart from the fact that both resemble a car crash at times and you keep reading/watching in spite of yourself!