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I can see what people mean when they talk about parts of the book being disconnected - the writing doesn't flow very well, and I found myself repeating paragraphs in places in order to figure out what just happened. This is Harrison's first book though, right? I don't have a problem with giving her slack about that particular problem, if she addresses it in her later novels.

I liked this book overall. It wasn't as good as the first Anita Blake book, I think largely because of the aforementioned choppy writing problem. But I liked Rachel Morgan's character, coming from Harry Dresden, Joanne Baldwin, and Anita Blake as I did. She isn't a total badass, and threats against her life and scary monsters don't give her an infusion of stubborn power. They scare her out of her mind. It makes her more believable, and fact that she overcomes her problems more satisfying.

I hope Harrison refined her writing for her later books, because I'd like to continue with Morgan's story and it'd be nice if I wasn't yanked out of the storyspace quite so much.