dark fantasy

The hero Marcus is a vampire, captured and tortured. He escapes and finds Josephine. Because he's been tortured, he spends the first three quarters of the book in a constant state of blood hunger/thirst, not to mention lust, because Josephine's his mate.

Aside from the blood hunger and lust for his mate, and Josephine's empathy, the entire story was remarkedly like any para-military/action romance. There was very little interaction with other people, or exploration of vampiric culture. In the prequel, I Burn For You, there is an excursion into vampire society, and getting to know other vampires and the culture.

In this book, they run and hide, hardly speaking to anyone else, meet one other vampire at the end, and that's it. In the epilogue, it's mentioned that the heroine was brought home to meet the rest of the vampire family, but apparently that wasn't interesting to actually let the reader read what happened. It wasn't until hundreds of pages in that the reader learns anything about the complex vampire culture, so the first few hundreds of pages is just like an action romance.

Also, the font was so large, it was very annoying, not unlike Johanna Lindsey novels, making it seem that the story was "blown up" to fill the requisate number of pages.

So I think the story did read quickly, had action, but it could have been better, if there had been more interesting supporting characters, more relationships, more insight into the complex vampiric culture we saw in I Burn For You, and smaller font/smaller spacing for the page typset.

I read this book in one sitting and the time just flew by. It captures your interest from the first page and never lets you down. Granted some events were obvious and of course we knew Marc and Jo would be captured, but how they got away was worth the read. I also agree it took a long time for Josephine to realize Marcus was a vampire, but that's not an easy concept to grasp. How long would it take you? This was a true love story and I loved every minute of reading it and look forward to the next book in this series. I even enjoyed reading the previous book to remind myself where the hero fits in the series. Read I Burn For You and then read this one - you will be in for a real enjoyable journey into Susan Sizemore's original vampire world.

From the first page, what can I say, dark, sensual, sexual, exciting, and electrifying! If you like vampires and erotica, this is the book for you! I had a most difficult time putting this book down each night. The writing was crisp and snappy. I just loved the edginess of the two main characters, Jo and Marc. Susan's world of family, clans, and tribes is refreshing. I give lots of kudos for I Thirst For You. Can't wait to read I Hunger For You next Spring! Way to go, Susan!