Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I finished "Forbidden Magic" and the book didn't live up to the glowing comments of the other authors on the front page of the book, not by a long shot, and those comments were the reason why I bought the book. No way is this book comparable to the ones by Kelley Armstrong or Kim Harrison in regards to engaging the reader in the characters and the story's universe. The author threw in some Celtic mythology buzzwords, but I didn't get any sense that it was more than surface research. The world building was superficial and rather formulaic, the dialog was rather silly at times (a dying spouse says haltingly, "You've always been the witch of my dreams"), the primary characters are stereotypes, the secondary characters are underdeveloped, and the author seems to follow the maxim, "when in doubt, throw in a sex scene". I lost track of the number of them by the end. It didn't seem to matter what was happening or what was about to happen, every time the hero and heroine got within three feet of each other he hardened and her juices started flowing. I just started to roll my eyes by the second third of the book. The book ended in an obvious lead-in to a sequel, but I won't be buying it because the author failed to make me really care if the heroine is ever going to find her sister, or if the demons are going to take over San Francisco.