Simmer is the second book in the Midnight Fire series by Kaitlyn Davis. Like the first book, this one was predictable, but when you are writing vampires and magic it is hard to find a unique angle, but I have found books like Claudett Melanson’s, Maura DeLuca Trilogy that was able to find that unique angle. While the whole conduit thing in this series is good, building toward the point of it all is slow and kind of like waiting for an elderly woman in front of you in line who decides to pay with ten dollars in pennies. While, I get building the back story and the current story and meshing them together is important, I think that lack of real understanding about so many different things may have been improved by a little more focus on one aspect or another. That being said, another similarity to the first book was the poor editing job, although this one was a little better it still had me jerking to a stop at big mistakes. The editing job may have compounded some of the other issues because it was so poorly done.

What I liked about Simmer is again the characters. I will say it till I am blue in the face, love the characters and you get me to read on. Luke, again is a shining star that deserves so much more emphasis and would require writing Kira as not the predictable idiot that she is. I do see that a shift may be coming and with it a bigger role for Luke, which I think is needed because he is one of the most likable characters. While Tristan is the heartthrob and the vampire it is tired. I also liked the introduction of Sonneyville and finally getting into the sticky past that includes Kira’s grandparents. The town is surprisingly lost in a time warp not in its technology but in its ideologies. Another good addition is the side effect from saving Luke’s life. Kira can feel his feelings and hear his thoughts. This of course adds a whole new level of screwed when her best friend is flirting with her via mind meld and her boyfriend the vampire doesn’t know. All in all, the jury is still out on this series. I like it and will finish the series just because it is an okay story, unfortunately I don’t see it being one of those stand out series for me unless the next two books knock my socks off. I hate giving anything three stars or less so this doesn’t make me feel good.