Ratings Overall: 8 Sensuality: 8 Paranormal Element: 8

This is an Official Review by a contemporary Romance Writer Official Reviewer

Review for In the Blood
Author: Savannah Russe
Date of Review: 08/26/07
Reviewed by: Stacy Cooper

Reviewer Comments: In the Blood by Savannah Ruse is book four in the Darkwing Chronicles. We meet up with Daphne just a few short weeks after her last mission. This time she and the team are called in to save ten girls who happen to be daughters of some of the most powerful families in the U.S. The team is short two members and heads off into the dank vampire underworld to find new recruits.

This mission is much more than a simple kidnapping; it is a matter of national security, for Al Queda is behind the kidnapping. At the same time, Daphne’s human lover is about to meet her mother and choices must be made while she struggles to remain a vampire apart from a world of vampires.

While this is book four, you don’t have to read the previous three to understand In the Blood. Daphne is struggling with herself to find balance in her life. She doesn’t love her human lover and feels bad about it because he is such a great man. He is willing to sacrifice all for her, yet something is holding her back.

Daphne is a vampire, but many of her actions scream out in their humanness. She tries to maintain human morals while keeping herself removed from most humans. She wants to be in a monogamous relationship because it is what her lover expects not because she really wants to. The book plays upon the idea of looks being deceiving. Almost everybody is hiding something in this book. The one exception is Fitz, Daphne’s human lover.

One thing I’d like to make sure readers know, is that there are some sexual acts in this book that may be offensive to some readers.