She has, in fact, run off and joined the circus. She's also estranged from her family for a host of reasons that are revealed during the course of the story. She can't touch anyone without hurting or killing them, or reliving some fucked up memories that aren't her own. Strong, smart aware of her limits, and thus miserable. That alone would make her seem the most specially special electric snowflake, but she's pretty miserable. Laila touched a downed wire when she was 13, and was left with a scar from her ear to her wrist, an abundance of electrical energy in her body (which means she can't touch anybody without zapping them royally) and psychometry (which means that when she touches someone, she sees their worst sin, the thing they are most ashamed of, while also zapping them with a taser's worth of electrical charge). She tells the story in first person, and there's layers of dialogue that could have easily become annoying but instead were very entertaining. The heroine in this case, Laila, was part of the reason I kept reading. I really liked book 1 of the Vampire Huntress series, and I usually like Frost's heroines. This book is the start of a new series by Jeaniene Frost.
Then I saw a few positive tweets about it, and then I read the sample, and boom – it was “leave me alone, it's electric vampire time.” I was honestly very surprised – my paraxhaustion was pretty entrenched. We hosted a giveaway with a firepit, so I had press materials about the book in my inbox. I was designing the ad for it and the tagline, about a woman who can control electricity and a vampire who can control fire, caught my attention.
I'm not sure why I made the exception for this one. Aside from the occasional YA paranormal (such as this month's book club selection) I haven't read a paranormal romance in months, possibly. I have been vamped-out, were-d out, and thoroughly exhausted by all the plots that add paranormalness of various flavors.
I haven't read vampire novels in a VERY long time.
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