An okay audio book. It was a lot more salacious than I thought it was going to be from the description on the back. I'm not familiar with the author so that could have been part of it. I think Jackson's writing is a little too involved for my taste, like overly descriptive scenes with the characters that ended up being tedious. I would normally skip that kind of boring stuff if I was reading it, but with an audio book it's not easy to do. My mind wandered a lot more than it should have while listening to this.

I gotta say, Kristi Benz has to be the stupidest protagonist ever. She's been attacked and kidnapped twice before this and been tortured near death, so she said, and then jumps right into poking her nose around a blood thirsty cult with a very selfish attitude. I did not like her character very much, but I was fond of Jay, Mai Kwan and Rick Benz. Liking Rick Benz is the only reason I may read the previous books in this series. I hope he's smarter than his daughter. She makes Nancy Drew seem like a genius.

There were a lot of errors that were kind of noticeable in the audio that an editor should have noticed, like the consistency of one name. I heard Riley Ames and Riley Addams as if they were two different characters. I first thought it was the voice actor flubbing but then it happened a couple times so I knew it was an error on the author's part. At least get your character's names right!

The villains were a bit over the top, unrealistic and at times kind of corny. Some of the language was redundant, and as one of my pet peeves...the author would write "Stroke" or "Slash" instead of actually describing the event. That is so irritating. It's just lazy writing.

I gave it two stars for the characters' appeal (not Kristi) and because I'm a glutton for punishment I'm going to check out Hot Blooded, the first book in this series. I probably wouldn't recommend this author to my friends though.