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This review might include minor spoilers. // Edited and properly written review to come.Dear Future Patricia,the setting of this book was brilliant. A little like Ilona Andrews' Edge novels, A Blood Seduction is set in our world, but not quite. Female Lead Character Quinn can see, and first suspects she's finally turning loco, another world, just sometimes. When her brother's best friend and soon-to-be girlfriend is a few minutes to late, he suspects something's happened, and it has: Like many other people she disappeared.Quinn and Zach (that's her brother's name if you hadn't guessed) search for her and fall through a "portal" to this other world. A little like Inu Yasha but they don't timetravel, they travel to an Alternate Washington DC, which is called VC - Vamp City, where the sun never shines, where humans are slaves, and torturing them is okay, because hell, they are slaves.There are vampires and werewolves, and those supernatural beings are definitely monsters. They are creepy and scary as hell, which was fabulous for me as a reader and I would probably give the book 5 stars if it weren't for the protagonist and her relationship to Arturo. Do you know people you really like but they fell for assholes and this notion of them makes you feel like they aren't as great as you thought they were? Quinn does that. I am not saying Arturo is an asshole. He is what he is and as a normal character, not a love-interest, I probably would have loved him.He's one of the vampires who feed on both blood and emotions. His emotion is fear. There are others, his master for example, who feed on pain. Apparently there are also some who feed on pleasure. In any case, he is very loyal to his master, and that would be okay, if it wasn't for him probably being the guy Quinn ends up with.He is, as the love interest, not redeemable so far and as the reader I needed to know why he felt this strong loyalty for someone who was obviously not just a vampire, but also a sadistic bastard. In the beginning I suspected that he was bound to the master, but there were scenes written in his POV that suggest this isn't the case. As I've said, it wouldn't be a problem, but one has to wonder why Quinn would feel attracted to a guy who doesn't seem to care about more than sleeping with her. He has blood-and-sex-slaves, and stated as much, he betrayed her, he scared her, he made it obvious that he didn't care about her brother, who might die. Even though she still felt not only attracted to him but acted on this attraction. It was a horrible case of InstaLust that made me gasp, because despite her situation, her hornypants still got the better of her. What the heck, girl. What the heck. She knew it, and she couldn't forgive him for that. Why did she keep letting him kiss her?Yeah, Quinn. I wondered the same.Future Self, you know that books can be very enjoyable even if you don't like the couple that is featured - some of Nalini Singh's books are best proof of that. But it is very hard to enjoy a novel if you do not like the protagonists, and it was hard to relate to Quinn. I do think, however, that there will be lots of readers who won't have the same issues with the book, because the possibility of a HEA or HFN is enough for them to be satisfied with the progress of this book's plot. This was my first Palmer book and it's save to say that I will complain as long as it takes for someone to get me all her other books.