*There are spoilers in this review, beware before you read*
From the back cover
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Night Huntress series comes a breathtaking new journey to the dark side of desire.
The night is not safe for mortals. Denise MacGregor knows all too well what lurks in the shadows--her best friend is half-vampire Cat Crawfield--and she has already lost more than the average human could bear. But her family's past is unwrapped in secrets and shrouded in darkness--and a demon shapeshifter has marked Denise as prey. Now her survival depends on an immortal who lusts for a taste of her.
He is Spade, a powerful, mysterious vampire who has walked the earth for centuries and is now duty-bound to protect this endangered, alluring human--even if it means destroying his own kind. Denise may arouse his deepest hungers, but Spade knows he must fight his urge to have her as they face the nightmare together...
Because once the first crimson drop falls,
they will both be lost.
I knew when I first read about Spade in Halfway to the Grave that he'd have a greater purpose.
First Drop of Crimson shows how much Spade opens up and shows his true self through out the plot line. He is differentiates from Bones slightly by how his wit comes through and what he will do even if he has to kill for Denise just to keep her safe. He knows she is still broken, but when Crispin reveals what has happened to Denise, including suffering a miscarriage after the battle, Spade comes to realize how fragile yet how tough she is in her battle to find Raum.
Denise MagGreagor is a human who has just dealt with the burial of her aunt and cousin and her cousin Paul is murdered in front of her, instead of being afraid, she pulls out her can of mace and silver nitrate thinking the person who is murdering her cousin is a vampire only to find out that he is Raum, a corporal demon, a demon who has his own form and needs to be invited in wherever he goes. Denise is dealt the hand of hell by Raum branding her with his power and all the shit that goes with it. With that power, she is forced to find her ancestor Nathaniel who had summoned Raum, only not to pay him for this new gift. While dealing with PTSD, she finally comes 'round to loving Spade and seeing that he loves her for who she is and not what she isn't even if it means that she is a shape-shifting demon. Spade at the end finds this as a good thing, seeing it as that she is no longer weaker and is safer being the demon she is.
Like Cat and Bones aka Crispin, Denise and Spade make a couple that can over come anything even if it seems hopeless sometimes and the stakes are high. I give them both a lot of credit for what they have been through and all that they will deal with, especially dealing with the rude bit of a prick Ian, so for this review, Mrs. Jeaniene Frost earns her self another A+ and a gold star on plot and character development and everything you expect to find in her novels.
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