Vampire Shift (Kiera Hudson Series One #1) by Tim O’Rourke

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Title: Vampire Shift (Kiera Hudson Series One, #1)
Author: Tim O'Rourke
Published by: Indie
Release Date: June 6, 2011
Format: Kindle Book
Pages: 256
Genres: Paranormal, Romance, Folklore
Reading Challenges: CC's Goodreads Reading Challenge
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My rating:

Blurb:

When 20-year-old police recruit Kiera Hudson is posted to the remote town of The Ragged Cove, her life is changed forever. Investigating a series of horrific murders, grave desecrations, and missing persons, Kiera uses her unique ability of seeing, and soon realizes her own life is in danger. When Kiera falls for police officer Luke Bishop, not only are her mind and heart opened to a terrifyingly new world, she comes to suspect that Luke might be involved in the killings. In a race against time to unearth the truth, Kiera must discover the identity of who - or what - is behind the gruesome deaths on her Vampire Shift.

"Vampire Shift" is Book One of The Kiera Hudson Series One.

My Review:

This one was kinda odd. I don’t know if it was the writing or the plotline but it seemed to flow awkwardly.  Like the romance was pushed a bit too much too soon. And it was too dry for my tastes.  I found it unbelievable and so it took me out of the story a lot.  Then it got almost ridiculous in nature so naturally I kept reading just to see how far it would go and I ended up liking it once I stop taking it so seriously.  I wonder if that was the authors intend from the beginning…..

Anyway, Kiera has an uncanny sense to ‘see’ things.  It’s akin to Sherlock Holmes in that it’s not supernatural just her own sharp powers of observation.  And that in itself was enough to keep me reading because it was a slight change from the norm with this genre. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a paranormal book all the way but I liked that it threw in that aspect.

Mostly I found Kiera’s character to be flat and uninteresting.  And the love interest, I can’t even remember his name so that tells you all you really need to know about him right?

I did like the story apart from the romance, that part could have been left out with no change in the plot.  I will not be reading any more in this series because it was too slow and there’s like 10 books in it so yeah, I’m not signing up for that.