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(More customer reviews)If you insist on reading this book, lower your expectations.
I honestly wasn't expecting much to begin with - just a few hours of entertainment. But the only thing I came away with after reading 'Touch of Evil' was the burning question, "How did this get published?"
The authors have followed the tradition of Laurell K. Hamilton's later novels, giving up all pretense of exploring the supernatural world or their characters and resorting to contrived plots to write hollow sex scenes.
The characters in 'Touch of Evil' are entirely static and homogenous. The thing I recall best about the proposed 'heroine' is that during a superfluous trip to the emergency room, she was willing to cut ahead of a crying boy with a bloody head injury. I felt more for that boy in his one sentence mention than I did for the heroine throughout the book's entirety. The woman is a culmination of an unrealistic number of skills and characteristics, as though the two authors were unwilling to compromise on their individual ideas. The resulting Wonderwoman is wholly unbelievable and unsympathetic. Not unlike Hamilton's Anita Blake, she is surrounded by several characters who adore and support her unconditionally. If only she deserved them. And if only I could remember who they were. The other main character, the heroine's love interest, is by all accounts a werewolf, yet aside from the initial statement of the fact, there's nothing to support it. To call this part of the shapeshifter genre is granting the book a classification it in no way deserves. Like the heroine, her soon-to-be bedmate is entirely forgettable, and perhaps even more cliché - he's a sexy fireman. In a calendar and everything.
The plot is rather lacking, as well. What's there is used as an excuse to create baseless and tedious sexual tension and finally get the characters between the sheets for a wholly underwhelming sex scene. Even what appealed to me most when buying this book - the original idea of the Thrall - ended up feeling like a bad sci-fi movie. Too much of the story hinges on the reader's attachment to the heroine, on their believing that the Thrall want her and believing that there are people willing to fight with her. I couldn't believe she was worthy of any of it.
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