Dead Spots by Melissa F. Olson

If you enjoy urban fantasy with a bit of mystery and love triangles, then you’ll love this book. I don’t care for love triangles, which is my biggest pet peeve with this book. They don’t add anything to the story for me because I have to wonder how often those really happen and I guess, I feel like it is so rarely that seeing them in every book I read is annoying. Luckily this book isn’t about the romance so much as it is about Scarlett.

Scarlett is a null – which means that any magic creature that comes within a certain distance of her, is nullified and becomes human. It also means she is a good crime scene cleaner because she can defuse the paranormal forces around her and leave the humans none the wiser.

Scarlett has a problem though. She works for the most powerful vampire in Los Angeles and when she doesn’t make it to a job quickly enough; the cops get there before she has a chance to clean up a very grisly murder. The problem doesn’t end there though. A werewolf shows up on a scene too and the first detective on the scene sees him go from wolf to human when he enters Scarlett’s sphere of influence. When she manages to escape from the detective, she leaves behind something he can track back to her on accident. Now she needs to figure out how to keep a human from finding out too much about her world (and getting killed), and figure out who and what killed three vampires in the middle of a park.

This book was an awesome read for me. I’ve already said I don’t like love triangles but I found so much other great things that I can give that a pass. The quick pace and fun characters really made this book for me. I enjoyed the first page to the last page and couldn’t put this book down. This book is not perfect but every time I pick up a book, I am not looking for amazing character development or deep and insightful plots; I’m looking to be entertained. The characters didn’t have sustainable development but they were entertaining and had a little depth. Scarlett managed to come off as a strong and in control with some very human flaws.

Dead Spots gave me a mystery, enjoyable characters with some funny moments and classic love triangle (at least the men in it were interesting without Scarlett making moon eyes at them). 4.5 Stars.

I received a copy of this book through the Amazon Vine program. This book is schedule to be published on October 30th.