Harbinger of Books

What to say about this book...I was really optimistic that it would get better after all so many people rated this book at 4 or even 5 stars. But I should have quit while I was ahead.

The plot is actually interesting, the Moniere are aliens who used to live on the moon before it became uninhabitable or maybe they got kicked out that was not real clear. Details details moving on so the men of Monere have to serve and mate with a Queen to live, they draw their power from them in bask in the moonlight (only on the full moon though). Ok so enter Mona Lisa she is a 21 year old nurse who has has a rather tragic childhood growing up in foster homes. Well one night at work she meets up with another of her kind...yeah that was kind of weird because she thought she was human until she sees this guy Gryphon and realizes she is other. Mona Lisa is apparently bad-a$$ because she does not even bat an eye at not being human and being mixed blood is not a problems. Moving on we find out she can diagnose people and curb the pain of sickness (but she cannot heal, well not yet), she can hear for miles around (which is odd because she gets attacked a lot), she has mind control and a host of other powers that I would mention but I do not want to ruin it for you, and if you are worried we know all this by page 20 so...The guy Gryphon tells he she is a Queen but here is the thing Gryophon is dying slowly because his Queen stabbed him. Well Mona Lisa will not allow it, if there is a rumor about a cure she will find it and because she is bad-a$$ she goes right to the Queen of NY's home and searches it, but then her stellar skills let her and Gryphon down because they get caught. Ah but don't worry kids our heroine is headed to the high court which is awesome because there are healers there and maybe one of them will deal with this nasty silver poison issue. Well she gets to court and things do not go as planned Mona Lisa almost gets raped like a few times and she has to fight and more stuff like that.

Here is the thing Mona Lisa is just to much I mean she has all of these powers and is incredibly understanding but um this book takes place in less than a month. Really you would not feel weird about a new world, money, you are not human?? Ok so even if you can get with all of that the story does not have a trajectory really it feels like there is a lot of rape, men getting hurt that Mona Lisa will heal and a lot of jealous queens out to destroy her. Mona Lisa seems to change a lot one minute she is kind the next she is a dominating queen and at others she is just a free loving pal and she switches between the characters like she has a personality disorder.

Even all of that I could get past if this did not seem so much like Meredith Gentry by Laurell K Hamilton. While Mona Lisa is not to quick to bed everyone she certainly is confident that all those who are male and see her must want her. I think this could have worked if there was some reasoning behind it some description of the lure. In the end I never sympathized with the characters or the plot so it felt like I was skimming through the book. While I think Sunny is probably a good writer her use of words would throw me off, sometimes it was very cheesy "I found my hell-cat and none are as sassy as you". Or wrong terms like quoting Tony the Tiger incorrectly the line is "Their Great! not that's great. Or the going between archaic speech to slang.