Exquisitely well-written blend of thriller, sci-fi, mystery and love.

I'm not the type that loves thrillers or horrors; if anything, I make my way around such movies and books because I don't have the stomach for the grotesque and pulse-wrenching.

I did, however, find recently that I had a thirst for a thriller, but I wasn't sure which to pick up. A friend started in on this series, and though she scared me when she informed me they were of 32 books (and counting), I was intrigued by the tidbits of the plot she told me.

I expected a good mystery, expected good detective work, I even expected the hard-core detective Lieutenant. I did not expect to find myself in a perfectly-ditailed future (without the actual explanations on it for the reader's benefit); I did not expect Eve Dallas to be carrying the kind of baggage she was; I did not expect the secretive and charming, but also base and fiercely loyal multibillionaire; but mostly, I did not expect to enjoy it so much.

It was so very realistic - the crimes, the profiling, the search for the killer. The book immersed me to such lengths as to make the multiple crimes not so much revolting (though there was that, too) as anger-inspiring. I think I wanted Dallas to catch the killer as much as she did! And the pinch of passion that was defined by feelings and not just body instincts was a great pressure-releaver, unusual as it was (and charming for that).

I really want to see where these books go, and I'm definetely diving into the next as soon as I can.