Daysider by Susan Krinard
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Susan Krinard is one of my favorite paranormal romance authors, so I was pleased to find this at Netgalley. However, DAYSIDER suffers a bit from the Harlequin treatment; there’s so much Krinard has developed for this world but so little space to tell it in that I found myself getting tired of all the infodumping that separated the snappy dialogue and the sexy tension between the two main characters. The story coalesced into something thrilling near the end, but for such a short book, it sure took a while to get there.

This is more complex than a lot of Harlequin novels, with many threads and motivations combining, sometimes in confusing ways. The action, when it comes, is well written, and the sex scenes are pretty steamy, but I was left wondering what happened sometimes when I’d read the slower bits too fast in order to get to the romance. Everyone is manipulating everyone else here, and it’s hard to tell who the good guys are. I suspect this book would benefit from a second reading, but I’m not sure I want to go through the long sections of infodumping. I wonder the short prequel to this series might help explain things.

Here’s hoping the next books in the series have more even pacing and a little less complexity.

Received as a free digital ARC via Netgalley and the publisher.

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