Thirst

Detective Max Bowman and his partner Alex are on the case of multiple dead bodies. The bodies are all completely exsanguinated and left with matching carvings on their bodies. Max decides to let off a little steam and goes to a gay bar for a some fun. Thinking he’s found that fun, Max follows a man outside the bar and is jumped by the man’s buddy and beaten pretty badly. Carter Gray is a vampire that happens to be in the same bar as Max and decides to follow Max out when he overhears the attack. Carter takes care of the attackers and takes Max home with him. Max isn’t very upset when he finds out who and what his savior is. Max keeps pushing but Carter keeps him at bay. The answers that Max is looking for are closer than either man realize. Will they solve this problem in one piece or will the real killer win in the end?

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What I liked:
*Carter is an unapologetic vampire who admits up front that he’s a killer. He takes what he wants from life and doesn’t care what others think.
*I liked the career choice that Carter settled on, as I think it fit him well.
*I liked the story line of Gordon, his family and how they came to be in Carter’s life.
*I liked that Max was a cop and that that made them be at cross purposes. To make them work each had to give a little and it seemed to work well.
*I liked the story overall with a few exceptions.

What I didn’t like:
*This book needed a second edit or a better editor. It had so many little grammar, punctuation and spelling errors that should have been easily caught.
*Carter telling Max that he’s the girl (referring to their relationship) because Carter held Max up and f’d him in the shower. People’s size or sexual preference doesn’t make one man or the other, the girl in the relationship.
*Carter saying that he kills to protect himself from discovery, when later in the story it’s revealed that he can glamour his prey and seal the wounds to the point of not seeing them. There’s no need to kill them. If he just enjoys killing, leave it at that, don’t put in bogus excuses.
*Carter goes from draining a person dry every night to survive to only feeding from Max. Another plot hole.
*Max’s setup and how he gets kidnapped was cheesy. His betrayer isn’t found and investigated, leaving that story line hanging.
*You don’t microwave blood as the blood will hemolysis and the the proteins will coagulate. (That was taught in nursing school as a nurse did it and killed a patient.) This would have been easily researched and found out.
*The ending of how Carter was found innocent, of the crime Lyle accused him of, was disappointing. If a vampire can tell deceit so easily, then the last eight decades would have been so different.
*The book ends with a lot of unanswered questions that one would think a sequel is coming but this is an old book and no sequel to answer these questions. EDIT: Just today a snippet was released to a possible sequel to this book. I’ll keep looking for it.
*Lastly and most importantly; continuity issues. First: Alex apparently works on the third and fourth floors at the precinct as that error wasn’t caught. Second: At the beginning of the book Carter describes himself as gay and the hunt for blood was about power and control, so using a woman for blood would be okay. Later in the book he says he’s bisexual and is having full on sex with a woman. Continuity issues are a BIG pet peeve of mine.

This book has a good story line and would be a really good read if it was re-vamped instead of re-issued with a new cove