Well this was something. Highly readable yet skewed more closely to urban fantasy than romance for me personal tastes, especially with the many different viewpoints. I felt myself skimming to get back to Wrath and Beth's parts, which were fun if ridonkulous. The vampire "rules" Ward creates for this world are fascinating, especially the way you either are or are not a vampire (no change by biting), the breeding cycles, and the brotherhood itself. I have to admit I kept hearing Matrix style techno music in my head whenever one of these leather clad beast men showed up on the page.

An alternate title for this story could have been "Everybody wants to Fuck Beth." Beth was refreshingly normal for a PNR romance, she wasn't exceptional except for her outer beauty, but I also felt terrible for her. Sure you're an orphan because your Vampire dad want's to protect you, but he couldn't have found some nice people to take you and provide money for you? He's just going to have his manservant take secret photos of you for your whole life? Yikes.

Wrath's "blindness" also made no sense to me. He wasn't blind! He had a hard time seeing, but could constantly react to the way Beth looked. I didn't get the point of this plot device.

I also chucked a lot at some of the way Wrath phrased things, for a Vampire so huge and tough he sometimes had some great, kind of silly ways of saying things. I can't think of an example now but it did make me laugh.

I've been told this first book of the series is one of the weaker ones, so I may be interested in reading a few more.

CW for on page sexual assault, graphic violence, drug use, transphobia, etc. etc.