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Feb 01, 2012

CJ - You Carry On As If I Don't Love You rated it:

I'm going to be very honest. I didn't get very far into this one.

The world building and the premise was interesting but I couldn't stand the main character.

That's a problem if it's first person narrative. For a criminal profiler I found her extremely close minded and prejudice (shooting first, making derogatory "jokes" that were actually thinly veiled insults etc), demanding and incredibly bitchy.

Maybe she gets better. I don't know. I didn't care eno More...

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Dec 25, 2011

Felicia rated it:

So this is a mystery/thriller/fantasy/paranormal/romance-y hybrid. I like the idea of this a lot, an FBI investigator woman transported into an alt universe where humans are the minority, vamps and werewolfs and golems are the majority. It's just the execution is spotty because the world is just unbelievable in some of the building blocks. And unfortunately the deeper you get into this series the harder it is to have your disbelief suspended because of some of those worldbuilding aspects as we More...

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Aug 09, 2011

Jessica rated it:

3.5 stars

Between the gore, the first person present narrative, and the please-no-love-triangles mantra I kept chanting, I feel like I shouldn't like this, but I'm a sucker for a competent, smart-ass heroine. Overall, I enjoyed the story and found the alternate Earth the author created to be fascinating -- I'm still trying to wrap my head around the idea of vampires being Muslim Shintoists. Another major plus: whenever a character has an accent, be it Japanese or French-Canadian, the au More...

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Aug 01, 2011

Mlle. rated it:

In a crowded genre, Dying Bites is fresh. The premise is so simple that it feels obvious, which is the mark of a really ingenious idea: Jace Valcheck is an FBI profiler pulled into another dimension, a same-yet-different world where humans make up only 1% of the population. In this new world, vampires and werewolves have all the physical advantages and all the political power; humans are barely scraping by.

There are some original twists on vamps and weres - like the spell that allows More...

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Feb 07, 2011

Obsidian rated it:

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Feb 07, 2011

Rosa rated it:

I know I'm currently in the middle of like a ton of books and it was kind of dumb to start a new one, but seeing as to how, not only did I start, but finish it before going back to the others, it says a lot about how good I thought this book was.

Jace Valcheck is your regular kick ass kind of girl. She is a Psychological profiler for the FBI (or some other gov agency) and she gets sucked out of her world to a parallel dimension where Vampires, Wares and golems are the ruling classes. Th More...

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Jan 11, 2011

Mark rated it:

A great introduction to a fun series. FBI profiler Jace Valchek is delightfully snarky and sarcastic in the face of being snatched away from the Earth she knows to one that is populated with vampires, werewolves and golems (although, in this reality, they are typically referred to as "pires, thropes [short for 'lycanthropes'] and lems"). Here, regular humans make up only one percent of that population.

But her trip to the land of monsters is no accident. The National Security More...

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Dec 22, 2010

Kt from A Book Obsession.. rated it:

Jace has never really fit in with her peers due to her job and the mindset she must be in to catch the really nasty criminals. However, she never thought her particular skill set would make her attractive to another reality, much less an almost completely supernatural one. She is ripped from the world as we know it into a world where less than one percent of the population is human. She is tasked with finding a psychotic killer who is human, but is preying on the supernatural community with a ve More...

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Nov 11, 2010

Tracy rated it:

Jace Valchek is an FBI profiler whose having a spectacularly bad dream - a dream in which she's yanked out of her own universe still dressed in her pajamas and plopped down into an alternate universe in which humanity has been reduced to a measly 1% of the population through methods Nazi Germany would laud. An alternate universe where vampires and lycanthropes are the majority and one of the few humans left is running around with a serious axe to grind and executing members of that majority. And More...

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Jul 31, 2010

Kristi rated it:

Kind of a fun read for the supernatural set. Behavioral analyst for the FBI on psychotic killers, Jace is yoinked out of our world and into a nearby parallel world where magic is real, vampires and werewolves exist, as do golems and Elder Gods, and humans are an endangered species. Even with the Elder Gods, apparently madness is considered a sickness that the supernatural set is largely immune from and there's a human serial killer out there gruesomely murdering vampires and werewolves. That's w More...

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Oct 16, 2009

Natasha rated it:

From what I seen on goodreads, not too many liked this overly much, and frankly I don't know why not. I really enjoyed it. I took to it almost instantly, you just know once you start reading that this can be a great book or you have to warm up to it, I knew from the begining it was going to be interesting. I was in teh mood for one of these books which helped also.
I found the characters written great and they were really fun to read. Jace Valchek is the protagonist in this book. She's More...

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Sep 26, 2009

Jess rated it:

Not bad... I picked this one at the library on a whim but I'm glad I did. It was unique concept. The main character Jace (is a criminal profiler) thinks she's dreaming when someone in a suit walks into her bedroom and asks her to take 3 things with her that she could never leave behind. She then walks through a door and end's up in a man's office and realizes that in fact she's not really sleeping but fully awake. Cassius explains that she is now in an alternative universe where humans only acco More...

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Jul 31, 2009

Shelly rated it:

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THIS ONE BITES

No, it's not a pun.

I have no accurate number of books that I have read in my twenty years, and I probably wouldn't get anywhere near the true count. I do know that I personally own what is probably about 1,500 books, and I have read at least twice that. At least.

So when I say there are few books I dislike, and even few still that I don't finish, I mean it. If I start a book, I am pretty much g More...

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Jan 21, 2012

Gwyn rated it:

Dying Bites is an original take on the typical urban fantasy setting with a solid, fast-paced plot and strong, if slightly flat, characters. Although there were a few things I would have liked to see done differently, I enjoyed this book immensely and look forward to the reading the next.

The plot is by far Bites' greatest strength. Jace Valchek is a FBI criminal profiler who finds herself kidnapped and brought to a different dimension--one where humans are a minority and most the popul More...

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Dec 22, 2011

Cindy rated it:

The story line is a fabulous concept...the characters...outstanding. My fault with this book was getting used to the story being told in the heroines voice per ce. AS in "I lift my hand and put it on my forehead"...which is from her point of view, but it's so very singular.
Pulled magically from her plane of existence Jace Valchek finds herself working in a world where humans are a dying race. Lycanthropes, vampires and golems are the rulers of the Unnatural States of America a More...

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Oct 12, 2011

Ivanna rated it:

Jace yang 'di culik' dan di bawa ke dunia lain yang berisi makhluk yang selama ini dia anggap mitos ajja. Di tawari pekerjaan untuk mencari pembunuh yang telah membunuh vampire dan Lycanthropes oleh kepala NSA David Cassius. Mau ga mau Jace harus menerima kalo dia ingin kembali ke dunia nya lagi.

Dengan rekannya Charlie (golem), dia terbang ke jepang untuk menyelidikinya.. yang di sana harus berhadapan dengan Yakuza... (wuiiiiiiiihh).. dengan di bantu dengan agen di sana yaitu Tanaka. More...

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Mar 12, 2011

Nairabell rated it:

FBI profiler Jace Valcheck has literally been ripped from our world and dumped in a new one. If that wasn't strange enough, she's quickly informed that while this world still has humans, they only form 1% of the population. The rest is made up of vampires (called hemovores), lycanthropes and golems. Jace has been pulled into their world to deal with something they rarely see - a mentally unstable human serial killer. And if Jace ever wants to make it home, she'll have to catch the killer first. More...

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Jan 15, 2010

Tori Benson rated it:

Her job description is the “tracking and apprehension of mentally-fractured killers.” What this really means in FBI profiler Jace Valchek’s brave new world—one in which only one percent of the population is human—is that a woman’s work is never done. And real is getting stranger every day.

Jace has been ripped from her reality by David Cassius, the vampire head of the NSA. He knows that she’s the best there in the business, and David needs her help in solving a series of gruesome murd More...

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Aug 20, 2011

Candy rated it:

This book is AMAZING! If you like paranormal/urban fiction, you have to read this!!!
Jace Valcheck is an FBI profiler, which I know has been done before. What is different is that she is pulled into a parallel universe, where humans are a dying race. Vampires, or hemovores, and werewolves, or the politically correct, Lycanthorpe dominate the Earth in this world. And then there are the golems, or Mineral-Americans, as Jace's partner, Charlie prefers to be called. Jace has to locate a kill More...

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Aug 08, 2011

Sarah (saz101) rated it:

Take Daybreakers and Fringe. Mix them together in a cross-dimensional blender, and add a smart-mouthed heroine. You'll have Dying Bites.

Sucked into a parallel universe, FBI profiler Jace Valchek's new boss, David Cassius (NSA boss, and millennia old vampire), tells her she has one option for a ticket home: track down a criminally insane human serial killer--who's murdering pires and weres. In this place, vampires (hemovores), werewolves (lycanthropes), and golems (Mineral Americans, is the PC te More...

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Aug 12, 2009

Mardel rated it:

I liked Dying Bites. I didn't love it like I loved reading Suzanne McLeod, Devon Monk or Ilona Andrews. There's no denying that DD Barant can tell (write?) a good story. There's plot, twists and turns, suprises, and humor. There's also scenes of horrific sadistic killings, which is probably why I didn't love the book.

The main character, Jace has been brought over from earth to another dimension, another parallel earth. Only this world has a teeny tiny percentage of humans. Everyone e More...

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Oct 28, 2011

Allison rated it:

Score one for the new GoodReads recommendations system. I don't know if I would have found this series otherwise, and I'm glad I did.

I've read a lot of PNR and UF over the years, and after a while it becomes harder and harder to find something original. Dying Bites was one of those rare, refreshingly original takes on the "kick-ass heroine who hunts paranormal creatures" theme. As a writer myself, I couldn't help being a little jealous of D.D. Barant for coming up with such More...

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Jan 26, 2011

Rhonda rated it:

Jace Valcheck is an unattached expert in her field of criminal profiling. She goes to sleep one night and wakes up in a parallel universe. The universe is similar, but with one major difference. Humans are less than 1% of the population. The rest are vampires, werewolves and golems. She has been ripped from her home world to help the non-humans stop what appears to be a human serial killer. Yet, not all is as it appears, and Jace has to wade through the murky waters of truth, morality, and inter More...

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Jan 18, 2011

Ithlilian rated it:

There is a fine line between no nonsense tough female that can handle herself, and rude obnoxious annoying female that you want to punch. The main character is Dying Bites is definitely the latter. As someone that has been abducted from another world and whose only chance of returning to that world is to cooperate and solve a case she does very little of either. She is rude and unhelpful, and she does very little investigating. I was bored from about the second chapter. The jacket makes it seem More...

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Jul 29, 2009

Writtenwyrdd rated it:

Interesting alternate reality story about a gal yanked from our world to one where magic is real--and so are vampires and weres. The really interesting part is that there are only 1,000,000 humans left. We are an endangered species...and our protagonist, who is an FBI profiler, is assigned a task of finding a human serial killer who is killing the same weres and vampires who mistreat humans.

The humans as endangered species has a lot of interesting tangents that are explored, too, s More...

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Dec 28, 2011

Hellybelly rated it:

4 1/2 stars, brilliant and vastly entertaining.
I FOUND AN INTERVIEW WITH D.D. BARANT on from April 2010 on Amberkatze’s Book Blog, where he (I understand that D.D. is one of three pseudonyms used by this author) talks about this book and the world it is set in:

The Bloodhound Files is about a world where the supernatural races—vampires, werewolves and golems—are the dominant civilization. Human beings make up just one percent of the population and are considered a federally pr More...

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Sep 22, 2009

Lost_Clown rated it:

I could not put this book down. I have read some of the books in this genre and was really sick of heroines that were, well, for the most part passive and, for lack of a better word, weak. Jace is the perfect antidote. She's strong, sarcastic, witty, and she takes no guff from anyone knowing her value as a detective. IN a world where humans make up 1% of the population and in which she meets some very anti-human characters she is more then willing to take them on, even if it means possibly f More...

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Aug 08, 2009

Dlora rated it:

Are vampires and werewolves considered fantasy or SciFi? This book is set in an alternative universe where the vampires and werewolves have taken over the world and humans are a minority. FBI profiler Jace Valcheck has been ripped from her reality to solve a serial murder case. They need Jace because they don't have mental psychosis on their world so they need someone from our world who can understand a crazy killer. The world DD Barant has imagined is creative and fun, the implications of the m More...

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Jul 02, 2011

May rated it:

While I am giving this book 3 stars, I enjoyed it and am digging right into the next one.

This is a story about a woman who wakes up to find that she has been pulled into an alternate universe- one where humans are treated more like cattle and vampires and lycanthrope species rule. Ah but they need her to help catch a mentally disturbed killer (her specialty)...

She is so concerned with returning home that it took me a long time to realize there would be no going home. Series More...

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Feb 11, 2012

Eperdu rated it:

The concept for this book is fairly unique. It wasn't one I'd seen before. That said, it was very difficult to get into it. I struggled for half the book to just keep turning the pages. I *wanted* to like this book very badly. I liked Jace initially but the longer I read, the more I began to dislike her. I felt in some ways she had the emotional intelligence of a young teenager. She whined her way through page after page. She wanted to sleep with nearly every male she encountered, treated the on More...

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