In Her Blood

I received this book through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review
DNF 16%

Yeah, this book ended up being not for me.

It started out okay, but then there was a jump, things were so different, and I did not understand what was going on. Sometimes it is okay to not understand if there is hope to soon understand, but one of the things I still didn't know 15% in is if the general public knew about vampires or not. This seems like a big issue that should be gradually uncovered, like why the main character left the agency.

There were also so many characters introduced, but not given time to make themselves known, so I would forget who they are or what they are: vampire? human? government? random person?
With all these characters and chapters told from different characters' POV, I still do not know anything about Alex Stone, the main character. I have no opinions about her either way. This is one of those times where I don't like multiple POVs which is rare for me.

I think if the author focused on one or two character POVs and narrowed down the story more, it would be much more entertaining or gripping. I wanted a reason to care about Alex Stone or an action which made me think how much of a badass she is, but all the action thus far was outside the story.