Sorry but I couldn't get into the book at all. I tried though, I'm so sorry for my ADD brain.

Apparently I am majorly in the minority here, but I was just bored out of my mind while reading this. It was well written and edited [which is why it gets 2 stars] but I found all the characters to be incredibly two-dimensional and the plot was just the same old cliched vampire stuff we've all read a thousand times before. I was looking forward to seeing how the main character would handle being a vampire and a med student but that wasn't really touched on AT ALL, just another vampire telling him he should quit and then tabling the entire issue [I assume] for future books. That would have been an actual interesting and unique storyline but instead we get the same 'baby vampire learning the ropes' and 'super old vampire coven with ridiculous rules' and 'creepy maker/fledgling bond' stuff that we have to slog through every time anyone in fiction becomes a vampire. I guess if you don't read a lot of stuff with vampires it might be kind of interesting, but I just couldn't get into it.

I'm going to copy/paste the description here so that if the author changes it, my review still makes sense.

<i>Medical student Thomas wakes up in a blood-drenched basement room, with no memory of how or why he got there.

Spencer has the answers, and now he must train Thomas to follow the rules of being a vampire – under the watchful gaze of his own mentor.

But how will Thomas practice medicine when the smell of blood turns him into a vicious killer?

Can Spencer teach Thomas to master his new powers, before he’s turned from predator into prey?</i>

I picked this book up (got it for free from NetGalley, but then I saw it was free on Kobo and read that version instead) because this blurb makes it sound like it's about a med student who becomes a vampire and then must figure out how to get his new bloodlust under control enough to continue being a med student. I imagined there would be some nice hospital scenes of him trying to remain professional rather than biting people, that sort of thing. I love the idea of a vampire doctor, so I was really looking forward to it.

Except that's not what this book is about at all. Him being a med student is mentioned as many times in the book as it is in this blurb, and it's far, far less important than which local coffee shop he goes to. This is just absolutely not the book that the blurb made me think it was, and I'm kind of angry because I still want to read that book about the vampire med student that I thought I was getting.

For that matter, Thomas, the (oh by the way) med student, is not really even the main character of this story. He's maybe one of three main characters, but I'd really say the main characters are August and Spencer, two of the other vampires. So the blurb shouldn't have even been about Thomas at all, because the story's not really about him.

Also, August and Spencer are gay lovers, and that's pretty important to the story, and the blurb gave no indication that this would be a gay story. I mean, it was okay in that respect, I guess, but that's not something I look for, and I'm a little annoyed that the author "sold" (parenths because I got it for free) me a story about a vampire med student and delivered a story about a couple of gay vampires and their relationship issues.

However--the book did entertain me. It was a little too gleefully gory, though I suppose some people like that in a vampire book. Thomas went WAY too quickly from "I can't kill people!" to "Oh sure, I'll become a mass murderer". Like, within the span of one short conversation. Especially for someone who'd been studying to be a healer, that felt very unrealistic and broke a lot of my suspension of disbelief. I like reading about vampires as people, but this book didn't entirely seem to know whether it wanted to be that or whether it wanted to be a "vampires as monsters" book. Some vampire stories make their vampires so blase about murder--so quickly after changing--that the entire change becomes, to me, pretty uninteresting. Where is the moral questioning, the emotional torment, the angst?

The book entertained me, but it also really disappointed me. If you're looking for a book with gay vampires (although I think these vampires were actually bi, although none of the actual sexual/romantic action portrayed in the book involving them involved women) and like the vampires to be brutal, heartless, and non-brooding, you might like this. (There's also a het love story with Thomas, except ... it's really pretty light. The gay relationship is the primary one.) If you, like me, were excited about the prospect of a new vampire coming to terms with also trying to be a doctor, keep on looking, because this is not remotely that book.