A review by teresainohio10
Tantalize by Cynthia Leitich Smith

4.0

What a different take on the whole shifter/werewolves/vampire/ world, Quince is in high school by day and at night runs the family restaurant. Only it is not a normal restaurant, the theme is vampires. The story starts off with a bang, and the fall out from that, just keeps coming. As Quince and her uncle scramble to find a chef with 10 days to opening, that is the least of their problems. Along the way, everyone is not whom they seem to be, and who is the good guy and what bad guys should you run from? Because some of the bad guys will actually help you while the good guys stab you in the back. The only reason not a 5, is having to struggle through the setting up of characters, actions and settings. I wish more debut novels would just tell the story, instead of setting things up for further stories.