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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Monster Doctor meets Monster, 11 Jul 2008
Dr Emily Drake is a rather unusual therapist. She's know amongst those of a supernatural nature as the 'Monster Doctor' as, despite being human, she is able to identify the Other, supernatural beings, through her psychic skills. When someone is murdered she's called to help the police as a kind of profiler - and the detective who comes to collect her is a shifter. Emily's always been wary of shifters because of their unpredictability but she finds herself strangely drawn to Detective Colin Gyth. When they find themselves working together to try to prevent a serial killer from attacking more women, both learning more about each other's skills and histories, they find an unexpected attraction between human and shifter.
Cynthia Eden's writing style is generally good and this book started in a particularly engaging way, with a vampire who is afraid of blood. Her characters were good including an interesting Medical Examiner, Colin Gyth's partner and an evil demon. Her hero is a real Alpha male and her heroine has her own feistiness and bravery. One odd thing was that the title, "Hotter After Midnight", seems entirely unrelated to the content of the book. The story was well plotted with the identity of the serial killer not particularly obvious and the cast of scary creatures added to the story. The sex scenes seemed at times rather spurious and unnecessary, as if they have been included because that's what this kind of book needs, rather than being central to the plot, but the overall book was an enjoyable read.
Originally published for Curled Up With A Good Book © Helen Hancox 2008
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hotter After Midnight, 4 Feb 2008
Emily Drake is a psychologist with a very special talent--thanks to her empathic power, she can touch the thoughts and emotions of her patients. And Emily's patients, well, they aren't exactly typical either; they're Other--vampires, demons, all of the creatures that humans fear in the darkness of the night.
When one of the Other starts killing humans, Emily is pulled into the investigation. Colin Gyth, the lead detective on the case, doesn't trust her, and, since Emily senses he's a Shifter, a being born with the ability to transform into an animal, the feeling is pretty mutual. Never trust anything born with two faces ... that was Emily's motto. However, she and Colin are forced to put aside their misgivings and work together once Emily officially joins the investigation as a profiler.
While Emily and Colin search to unmask the killer, an unexpected passion grows between them. Burned in the past by those he'd trusted, Colin had never thought he'd let a woman get to close to him again, especially a woman with a dangerous power like Emily's. Yet he finds that he can't resist her. There's something about the reserved Doctor Drake that calls to him, and the beast within the man recognizes his mate. But when the killer sets his sights on Emily, Colin will have to risk his life in order to protect the woman he craves more than anything else, and Emily will have to use her gift to look into the very heart of evil in order to defeat the monster hiding in the shadows.
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