I don’t read nearly as many vampire novels as TW and RJ – I tend to find them a little bit repetitive and I’m really really not into vampire romance. I think Twilight did me in for that genre. But, a vampire detective/mystery – that’s another story. Which is why I went ahead and read Blood Song. (And also because it’s due back to the library pretty soon and having my library closed for more than a month is just a little bit freaking me out. Heaven forbid I waste a library book…)
It was troubling to read this book because it felt like this was a sequel. A whole lot of backstory was missing and it was referred to in a way that made me SURE I’d missed book one. But when I look, there is no other book before Blood Song, just the sequel – Siren Song. So now I’m extra confused. I liked the book. I liked the characters. Celia Graves is my kind of female detective character. But what the heck happened before Blood Song? Something is missing and that’s annoying.