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“If you have a preferred god, Sentinel, I suggest you start praying. And soon.�

Pray that Neill will put this series out of its misery ASAP, that is.

First impressions
This is the last chance I’m giving Chicagoland Vampires. Screw this up and I’m out. Hell, I’m actually expecting a screw-up, but maybe it’s for the best. I don’t really feel like continuing this series anymore. All of this because of how things evolved between Merit, Ethan and Mallory. Well, when you put it that way it’s almost everyone in the book.

The plot
Ethan is back from the dead and he isn’t a zombie. Yet. Mallory is still on the run, endlessly chasing after the big evil book, the Maleficium. Why is that? To publish another Chicagoland Vampires book, of course. Merit and Ethan join forces, of course, to stop the evil bitch witch and after a bunch of useless events involving gnomes (??), a freaky Maleficium –induced binary fission and loads of teenage angst (yes, it’s Ethan) Mallory snaps out of her evil sleepwalking state and turns back into her old kind self. Yep, just like that. Oh yeah, and she repents through washing excessively oily Ukrainian dishes.

Yes Miss Neill, a worthy punishment for a person who switched to using black magic and almost destroyed the world is to wash dishes.

Even so, the danger is not over. The freaky binary fission produced another worthy enemy. An angel!



Yes, first blood thirsty gnomes and now an angel. But not just any good 'ol angel, a fallen angel, who � surprise, surprise � wants to destroy the world. As one does. And, as always, our golden couple, Ethan and Merit, is the only hope this dear planet has.



My thoughts
Now this was a total waste of time. I’ll save you the bother of reading till the end and tell you now that I won’t be continuing the series. I'm suspecting that the author lost her touch somehow. Or it's just me having high expectations again, which is not a first.

I don’t really care about Merit’s relationship with Ethan anymore. I want a good story not a bunch of filler romance. And that’s where my problem lies. The good story. I used to think that the whole evil witch thing was not nice. And now we get fallen angels.

They're twin brothers? One good one evil?



Merit and Ethan’s relationship weakened dreadfully. I don’t feel the passion between them; I am not interested in them getting together even. Which is obviously going to happen, the unwritten love triangle rule is that the choice always is the emo character. Dark, broody, misunderstood. Has to happen.

Mallory’s redemption was also pure filler, the sole purpose of this was to bring Ethan back. She served it and now she’ll get back to normal. Mark my words.

I was going to give it two stars but the twin-Tates incident is why I’m removing one star from my rating. The absurdity stupidity of it is too high to be forgiven.

A short conclusion
Biting Cold is full of tasteless romance and the story is not good enough to make up for all the other weak points. Which are far too many. I can’t begin to express how disappointed I am. I was hoping to give Chicagoland Vampires a second chance but Biting Cold sealed the deal. I won’t be continuing the series anymore.