My experience with this series is that most of the books are painfully annoying and difficult to finish. I found the first two books in this series only slightly entertaining. I started seeing annoying similarities and patterns to the series by the second book. Now the third book is repeating these same similarities and cookie cutter patterns to an irritating degree.

The authors dialogue is lacking and there is overuse of adjectives and specific phrases. Like the repetitive use of "Oh yeah"... "Ooo"... or "...not". All the characters in her series, so far, use these phrases at least once or twice. Which has been driving me insane. It's not unique to one character. Also, the male characters aren't very masculine when they talk. They might be described as masculine. But the dialogue she uses for them often sounds a bit effeminate and girly. Or possibly childish and goofy. Like the use of the word "...not" as in, "what fond memories... NOT." While something like that might possibly work for Sunshine's character, it doesn't for Talon a Dark Hunter Warrior who is supposed to be the epitome of masculinity and sex appeal. It's out dated and "dorky" and something girls used back in the 90's (as another reviewer described). I think the author failing to separate her own personality and inner dialogue out of her characters.

A minor peve for me is the lack of showing a characters accent. For instance, in Kresley Coles books she does a good job of "SHOWING" you the characters scottish brogue by the way she spells certain words in their dialogue, like "doona" for "do not", " no' " for "not", "verra" for "very" and "canna" for "cannot". This way you get an idea how the character sounds. I know this can be a little difficult or unnecessary for some accents. Like that of an english gentleman. But for Talon, I think it would have served her well to "show" his scottish/gaelic accent to the readers.

Lastly, the sexual relationships in each of these books just doesn't work for me. I like male characters to actually come across domineering, wild and masculine. Each one of her main characters so far has been weak and again... effeminate. Which is confusing because they are all supposed to be very dark and masculine "bad boys". The sexual encounters between the main characters couldn't be LESS passionate. The men are all "gentle" and "tender" lovers. A complete contradiction to their Dark Hunter "bad boy" personas. There is also the same cookie cutter pattern for all the love scenes. They just fizzle for me instead of sizzle. For the sake of keeping it interesting, she needs to mix it up a bit within her series. Electrify her readers in some way. Give them some heat, aggression, excitement and adrenaline. The actual sex scenes are tepid and again... repetitive. Build the sexual tension in the story without the use of repetitive cookie cutter dialogue and the OVER USE of sex within the story. And don't TELL your reader, but, SHOW THEM the sexual tension building between the main characters within the story. So far everything is just... too tame and silly. I much prefer the sex in various series by Kresley Cole, Jeaniene Frost, J. R. Ward, and Karen Marie Moning or Kim Harrison (who are both good at building sexual tension with their characters).

The story line did get interesting on rare occassions. My biggest problems with this book and the series so far are:

1) Over use of "Oh Yeah" and "Ooo" for ALL the characters...male and female.
2) Not enough build up of sexual tension, which makes the love scenes fizzle instead of sizzle.
3) Weak effeminate dialogue for the male characters.

All in all I gave the book itself 2 stars for a few exciting parts to the story line.