I suck! Plus book review of Taste Me by Tamara Hogan

OK so it's been waaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy too long since I posted. Anyway today really kinda sucked but I don't really want to get into it.

Anyway, I've been thinking of starting to review books for awhile but just never made myself sit down and do it. But I just finished this book and I must review it.

So here goes:

Taste Me by Tamara Hogan
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca

I think I'm going with a frog rating system. 0-5 Frogs with 5 being the best. With that said, I'm going to have to give this one 3 Frogs.

Blurb from back cover:

He Wants Her So Badly He Can Taste It...
Ever since their tempestuous fling years ago, incubus Lukas Sebastiani has known that siren Scarlett Fontaine was meant to be his. But when you're a sex demon with an insatiable desire, relationships are way more than complicated...

Her Siren Songs Bring Men to Their Knees...
Rock star Scarlett Fontaine desperately needs a break after a grueling tour. But with murder and mayhem surrounding her band, and the one man she never thought to see again put to the task of protecting her, life is going to be anything but peaceful...
Every encounter between them creates more turmoil-and heat-until Scarlett pushes Lukas to the boiling point, and unleashes forces that go way beyond anything she can hope to control...

First off, you find out who the killer is in the very first chapter. This type of thing can work but you have to find out and understand what the killer's motivation and reasoning is. With this book in some way I ended up feeling like I had way more questions than answers.

The relationship part of the book was good. And overall I did like the book, but the first couple chapters made me feel like it was a couple books into a series and I had missed the first few. If you can stick it out it does get better a few chapters in. I did get involved in the story and read it all the way through to the end. But, instead of being satisfied at the end I was left wondering "What the heck?". I'm also not sure there was enough world-building in this one. If you are all about the romance and the rest is just filler then this book is fine. But I want it all to be cohesive.

SPOILERS from this point. Stop now if you don't want them.



Sure they get together at the end and the killer is caught, it is a romance after all, but I have absolutely no clue what half of the killer's story line was supposed to tell me. At the end I have no clue why the killer did what he did or how he did it other than he was supposedly from another planet (but possibly crazy), possibly possessed (or crazy) and able to shoot electricity at people (but no one has any clue how). See what I mean? There are these story threads throughout the book but with no payoff.

Again, overall I did like the book, I just don't like unanswered questions, it pulls me out of the story. Plus, I want to be able to say "I would read this book again" at the end, and I just can't say that with this one.