Immortality is the Suck and No Rest for the Wicked by A.M Riley

[Mercedes]

Immortality is the Suck and No Rest for the Wicked are part of the two-book vampire series by A.M Riley. Here are the blurb for both. I hope it is not confusing if I do it like this:

Immortality is the Suck

Adam's an undercover vice cop dealing with a dark past. He's no stranger to bad nights; in fact, he's lived a lot of them. But he won't survive this one. First, a drug deal he's working goes south. Then his partner and sometimes sex partner Peter has to watch him bleed to death. But the kicker: he's not sure what's worse. Watching Peter cry over him or waking up undead.

Peter's a good cop in love with a bad man. Or a bad vampire, now. Watching Adam die was the worst thing he could imagine. Until he woke up. Now their relationship's in crisis. Adam's in the middle of a vampire enclave at the center of Los Angeles motorcycle clubs and Peter just can't hack it.

Adam thinks he's fine with that. He's a commitment-phobe. But he's about to discover, immortality is seriously the suck.

No Rest for the Wicked

Adam has gone through a lot of changes in the past year, a new taste for 'O' neg blood and allergy to sunlight being the least of them. Maybe it's the cute young grad student who has been sniffing around Adam's longtime sex partner, Peter. Or maybe immortality gives a man a little too much time to think. But Adam's feeling motivated to change a few of his ways. If he could just get Peter to stop working long enough to notice.

Peter has his own issues with dating a dead man. And after over a decade of being in love with a commitment-phobe, he's finding it hard to believe that Adam isn't sampling the goods of the hot young vampire he works with.

They manage their issues the way they always have. By not talking about them...until a high profile computer software genius turns up drained in Hollywood, revealing a new vampire gang in Los Angeles, and all of their troubles come to a head. There's no rest for the wicked.

Like the blurb says for the first book Adam is a LAPD cop that during a bust "dies" in the arms of his lover of almost 20 years Peter. However, he wakes up in the morgue a vampire even though he doesn't know it. Most of the first book is deal with Adam coping with being and surviving as a vampire. There is something you should know about Adam too. He is the ultimate anti-hero. Adam is not your perfect character or even character with minor flaws. He is a mess. He was a drug addict and during the bust he was caught when he died he was actually buying drugs. Also, during this book he does things that make you want to smack him around. But he is trying. Now that he is a vampire he recognizes what he had and what he missed out on his relationship with Peter. The book is told from Adam's POV so we don't get to know Peter very much.

Adam was also an undercover cop that dealt with gangs and he finds out that there is a new gang of vampires that is forming and hoping to take over LA. So there's a bit of mystery plot going on here and I won't lie to you that the plot gets a bit convoluted in this book.

I enjoyed this book for Adam's character and also because I enjoy A.M. Riley's writing style. I only issue with this book was with the whole gang plot.

On the second book No Rest for the Wicked the mystery is a bit less convoluted than on the previous book and the focus is more on Adam's relationship with Peter. I loved seeing Adam's character grow in this book. Even from Adam's first person POV we get to know Peter better and it is great to see both of these guys get the finish they deserve.

[Ulysses]

I actually liked flawed characters. I know I've read some of A.M. Riley - or have I?