CELEBRATION FOR THE DEAD: Witches Knot 5
Lauren Dane
Ellora’s Cave
ISBN: 978-1-419-91581-9
April 2008
Ultimate Romance - Paranormal

With her newest release, Lauren Dane brings the readers the next installment of the Witches Knot series, CELEBRATION FOR THE DEAD. We get to experience Melanie “Minx” Rodriguez and Conner Bell’s story.

Connor is a vampire, he is a part of a faction known as the Oathkeepers. In simplistic terms, he part of the vampire “police”, keeping the Oathbreakers under control. In a world where the average person does not know that supernatural things truly exist, it is part of his job to make sure they are protected and not used as prey to any rogue vampire.

Minx is a part of a group that has also been hunting vampires for a long time. She was attacked when she was younger, and has made it her mission in life to kill as many vampires as she can. It has only been recently though, that she has learned that there are “good” vampires and “bad” ones. With the help of the Chavez witches in the previous 4 books in this series, Connor and Minx set out to hunt and track Perdue – the villainous vampire from the previous story. Unfortunately, tangled in this hunt is the fact that Connor was not looking for, nor ready for a relationship (or love). He must win Minx’s trust back in order to gain her love.

I have to say, this is probably the weakest installment of this series so far. I have truly enjoyed all of the previous stories leading up to this one, but was disappointed with CELEBRATION FOR THE DEAD. The writing was a bit choppy and rushed, and the plot way underdeveloped. There were a lot of good sex scenes, and if you are looking for a book strictly with that criteria in mind, then you shouldn’t be disappointed. Considering the preceding books went deeper than just the sex, I was expecting more and did not find it here.

Reviewed b Sarah Silversmith
Rating: 2