Oh wow that looks really good! *adds it to me "to read" (and order!) list*

*nods* Yes, that is one of the problems I had with the series. The other thing is, if you read all of the books in the series, they start to all feel the same--there's a master vamp causing chaos, girl and guy Carpathian are "meant to be", girl resists guy with everything she has, guy has some dark secret that he reveals to her eventually, they get together, master vamp destroyed. It all started feeling very formulaic and way less than surprising, which is why I stopped reading the series.