Would have been three stars, as the premise was compelling, but the ending was kind of a letdown. There was also some mockery of people who read or write vampire romances, which was tossed in just for laughs and wasn't nearly as funny as the authors obviously thought it was. I don't write vampire romances -- or at least, I haven't yet -- but given the current conversations in SFF about sci-fi and fantasy romance's place in the genre, I found these passages to be disappointing and disengaging.