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Meena Harper is a dialogue writer on a long-running soap opera. She has aspirations to be head writer, although her main competition is related to the producers and Meena has been covering Shoshona's butt for a long time. Meena is quite upset to find out that not only is Shoshona the new head writer, but the story line is changing to feature vampires; the main competition is cleaning up with their vampire story line. Meena Harper has another problem. She can look at a person and tell how they are going to die. Not when. Not where, really. But how. This did not endear her to her high school classmates. It makes living in New York City tough, even though eye contact is SO not done in The City. Bodies are being found around the city: young, female, exsanguinated bodies. The Prince of Darkness, Lucien Antonescu, had found out about it and is not a happy camper. He has made rules! Who is breaking the rules by killing people instead of just snacking on them? He heads for New York to see what's going on, and to check in on his half-brother Dimitri, who hasn't always been the perfect relative. These three stories converge, and Meena finds herself falling in love with Lucien, in no small part because she can't foresee how he dies. I found INSATIABLE to be very wordy, in need of some serious editing. Not just for length, although judicious cutting wouldn't hurt this book a bit. The dialogue, particularly between Meena and Lucien, is somehow off. It's too romantic for a thriller, or too stilted for a romance, or something. There is also a lot of fashionista name-dropping in INSATIABLE. Meena's neighbors, Emil and Mary Lou, are a bit over the top as well; saying much more would probably constitute a spoiler of some kind. I kept putting this down, and then I kept picking it up. If any vampire book can also be considered chick-lit, I think INSATIABLE would be the one. § P.J. Coldren lives in northern lower Michigan where she reads and reviews widely across the mystery genre when she isn't working in her local hospital pharmacy.
Reviewed by P.J. Coldren, July 2010
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