Ok, so I was in the book store a few weeks ago and I noticed this book. At first I wasnt sure if I wanted to read it or not, but my Fiance convinced me to. The book rants that it is "Unique, loaded with Thrills, Sex, Violence, and laughs. Wrong!
The concept was interesting enough. Felix Gomez is a Latino soldier in the Iraqi war who accidentally kills a innocent family. He seeks to punish himself and gets himself turned into a vampire. After returning home to the states with his new found powers, he becomes a P.I.
At first I thought I had picked up the second book in the series instead of the first. The scenes where short and had absolutely no development. He just starts into it like I could read his mind. He threw in lore with absolutely explanation. It confused me.
I just couldnt find myself able to get into the character of Felix. The storyline is just riddled with vampire cliches and over done concepts. Acevedo writes like a beginner. He had no Idea where he wanted to go with the story so he just threw as much stuff as he could get in.
At every turn Felix tried to use his Vampire Hypnosis but it never worked. All he ended up doing was "fanging people." Which made it kind of useless since he would not drink their blood. Isnt that what Vampires do?
Then there was the whole sex thing. You would think that With the word Nymphos in the title, there would be lots and lots of sex. Nope! Felix Love interest turns out to be a Pot smoking Druid, and every time they started to get into it something or some one would get in the way.
Then throw in the predicable vampire hunters. I have to give them the Kudos. They were the only characters with any real personality.
Then it turns out that the Nymphos are just side effect of what was really happening. Seriously aliens? Every thing turned out be the government trying to hide a flying saucer. LAME!
In the end I wont be continuing this series. I give it a 1 out of 5
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