Eternal is the first in a wonderful new paranormal crime series by V.K. Forrest.

It seems that we are starting to see more of what I will call paranormal crime coming out of the world of paranormal romance – crime stories with a bit of steam and a lot of paranormal, and this is an excellent example of this emerging sub-genre.

The characters, environment and story are all well developed, with a nice flow, a few twists and turns and a couple of side stories just to throw the odd curve ball. As with all good crime, you’re left guessing until the end.

There is a lack of emotional attachment to the characters, but again, I think this is also normal within a crime genre. In paranormal romance you expect to be totally involved with the characters, whereas in a more crime based genre, you really don’t want to be at that level of intensity, particularly when people start getting beheaded! Unfortunatly, although I am enjoying this genre, it won’t make it to my all time favourite list, as I do rather like being emotionally sucked into the characters' lives.

The Kahill clan is an interesting concept. A whole ‘sept’ of vampires hiding out in small town America, redeeming themselves by hunting down the scum of the human world (although this aspect is a side story in the first book), but otherwise forbidden from entering into relationships of any sort with humans for fear of discovery.

FBI agent Fia Kahill has a nicely torturous past, full of regret and guilt that makes her an interesting lead character. Glen, of course, is just an all-round nice guy (for the most part). The side characters all hint at interesting stories to come in future books as well.

If the rest of the series is as interesting and well written as this one I think we’re in for a heck of a treat!