Graphic Audio gives the listener sound effects, music, and a full cast -- not unlike recordings of old radio shows that I've heard. Even the best narrators I've listened to seem to have a bit of trouble with their 'characters of the opposite sex' voices. That problem is eliminated with a full cast.

Dante Valentine, transformed into a part-demon by her late and much lamented demon lover, had a truly horrific childhood, thanks to being sent to a school with a predator headmaster. I wish that the author had let us know what happened to the social worker who hadn't believed the student brave enough to tell her what was going on once the truth came out. I want to know, especially because of that student's death. Well, this is a dramatization, so perhaps the answer was in the book.

Now some of those former students are being murdered in ways worthy of a supernatural-slasher movie. One of the victims was a normal human. How does he fit in? Luckily, Ms. Saintcrow let her heroine figure out how the killer was getting to the victims reasonably quickly. There were things I didn't expect, which was nice. My own childhood abuse was extremely mild compared to what Dante went through, but it was enough to make the climactic battle something that would have been my worst nightmare.

Dante goes on and on about how much human cells dying stink now that she has a demon-enhanced sense of smell. Makes me wonder how her demon lover endured her stench when she was just human.

Two of the major events of the book were no surprise whatsoever and an action Dante took in CD 4 annoyed me tremendously, but on the whole I found the book worth my time. I hope my local library gets more Graphic Audio books because I've enjoyed both the titles I've checked out. ( )