A Rush of Wings (The Maker's Song, #1) by Adrian Phoenix


A Rush of Wings
HIS NAME IS DANTE.

Dark. Talented. Beautiful. Star of the rock band Inferno. Rumored owner of the hot New Orleans nightspot Club Hell. Born of the Blood, then broken by an evil beyond imagination.

HIS PAST IS A MYSTERY.

F.B.I. Special Agent Heather Wallace has been tracking a sadistic serial murderer known as the Cross Country Killer, and the trail has led her to New Orleans, Club Hell, and Dante. But the dangerously attractive musician not only resists her investigation, he claims to be "nightkind": in other words, a vampire. Digging into his past for answers reveals little. A juvenile record a mile long. No social security number. No known birth date. In and out of foster homes for most of his life before being taken in by a man named Lucien DeNoir, who appears to guard mysteries of his own.

HIS FUTURE IS CHAOS.

What Heather does know about Dante is that something links him to the killer — and she's pretty sure that link makes him the CCK's next target. Heather must unravel the truth about this sensual, complicated, vulnerable young man — who, she begins to believe, may indeed be a vampire — in order to finally bring a killer to justice. But Dante's past holds a shocking, dangerous secret, and once it is revealed not even Heather will be able to protect him from his destiny....

rating: 2 of 5 stars

I don't think I got to know enough about Dante or Heather to become involved in their world. I still feel like I'm on the fringe of something that's just out of reach. I also don't care for the writing style. I grew tired of the italicized flash backs of previous conversations and the endless mental question asking. The overall story was good, but there was something about the presentation that I can not put my finger on.

Speaking of presentation, don't judge this book by the cover. I don't know what the designer was thinking, but the cover design does not represent the content of this book in any way... well, with the exception of the gun. Who is that woman on the cover?

This was very hard for me to get into... It was a struggle to finish. I decided to postpone my review a little to give myself a chance to sleep on it. Before choosing this book/series to read, I browsed through reviews on several different sites, and found that most reviewers loved the book, but the ones who didn't were not really clear on why they were less than thrilled. I think I fall in the later category and although I'm not crazy about Rush of Wings, I am willing to give then next book in the series, In The Blood, a chance because I am intrigued by the world created by Adrian Phoenix.

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