Review: Stygian by Santino Hassell

“All in all, even though I was able to finish the story, this was definitely not my favorite story by this author.”
~ Under the Covers

I was extremely excited to read this because Santino Hassell is my 2016 author discovery and I’ve enjoyed all his books.  Seeing that he wrote a vampires story, I had to jump on it because I’ve been craving more paranormal!  STYGIAN has things about it that worked and others that didn’t.

First of all, it’s a romance, but I was disconnected with the main characters of this story.  Jeremy is the newest member of the rock band STYGIAN and he’s been in love with Kennedy for a long time.  He hopes that this writing retreat will bring the two closer together and finally give him the opportunity to get his man.  I never got to the point where I thought they had chemistry together and I honestly didn’t care enough about Jeremy to worry what the end result would be.

That being said, the story is interesting because it’s a little darker and with a hint of horror to it that I found very appealing.  The take on vampires as the bad guys is not one usually found in paranormal romance so it was a nice change to see them as the dangerous predators they are.  But I still think this could’ve been explored more as the paranormal element itself was not at the forefront of the story enough for me either.

All in all, even though I was able to finish the story, this was definitely not my favorite story by this author.  However, I do think it would be nice to see more of this type of book from him in the future.

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