I’m officially sick of “Me Too” books that try to follow in the footsteps of Laurel K. Hamilton, Charlene Harris and Kim Harrison. I recognize that Urban Vampire stories make up a pretty strong and popular genre, but the imitators fall well below the mark of even the poorest efforts of the notable authors in this space.

Lori Handeland’s Any Given Doomsday feels like someone threw the top books of the genre into a blender and then tried to make something out of the mix.  The book is  jumbled and disjointed as it tries to hit almost every kind of were creature, daemon and vampire.  You know the book has hit the pinnacle of ridiculousness when one character turns to another and says a third is “one eight were creature”…. what?!?

What the genre really needs are fresh new voices, not imitators.