I mean, that is the level to which Neill has sunk.

Oh, no!! I just realized what Neill forgot!! Oh, tragedy…gag…she missed out on putting in a hair-pulling scene between Lacey and Merit. I understand her frustration, but her approach is awkward and heavy-handed. Oh, please, what is the big deal about a dance in front of Cadogan House vamps and Rogues? Merit’s impatience with the doorman. What? Neill couldn’t be bothered to work at this? All her teeny-bopper advisers couldn’t see past their middle school angst? What beans? Hullo, she’s investigating a murder and Jonah is a source. Merit is terrified that Lacey is gonna spill the beans. He’s so supposed to be so white-hot as a strategist, and he can’t grasp the usefulness of what Merit chose? Neill has portrayed him - in the past - as more intelligent than this. Puh-lease, Ethan’s reaction when he learns Merit’s deep dark secret is so lame. Merit and Ethan’s interactions before and after the betrayal, the way in which they act apart are at a maturity level somewhere between middle school and high school. The negatives? Oh, let me count the ways. Your money is more valuable than wasting it on this. But don’t bother buying this installment to find out. I can understand wanting to know what happens with the GP. Neill is riding the positive waves of the much earlier stories in this series, and her readers are purchasing her books because of that earlier promise. That isn’t fair to young adults because they’re so much more intelligent than this. Neill simply kept providing the ammunition that made me want to put this into a Young Adult category. My next thought was to not allow others to dictate what I was thinking. My first inclination was to agree with earlier reviewers that Neill is allowing her most vocal audience to dictate the writing. And book by book, it’s falling into an abyss - no disrespect intended to teens.

In 2013, House Rules was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Paranormal Fantasy. In my opinion, this is written to an early teen audience.

Seventh in the Chicagoland Vampires urban fantasy series. Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Some Girls Bite, Friday Night Bites, Twice Bitten, Hard Bitten, Firespell, Hexbound, Drink Deep, Charmfall, Biting Cold, Biting Bad, Kicking It, Blood Games, The Veil, Midnight Marked, Dark Debt, The Sight, Blade Bound, The Hunt, Wild Hunger, The Beyond, The Bright and Breaking Sea, 'Slaying It' Urban fantasy in Paperback edition that was published by New American Library (NAL) on Februand has 352 pages. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review.

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