Content warning for the novel: rats and wererats
I mean, and vampires. But they ar on the cover.

It’s a sort-of OK vampire story, but the writing is bad.¹
I wanted to give this ★★★☆☆, but the bad bits, small and large, kept coming.

One of the plot holes is a literal hole. Pro tip: Make sure you really control all accesses to your torture camber. Don’t rely on wererats you don’t 100% control and the inaccessibility of caves to keep people out of your lair.

Hamilton often says the same thing twice. “If I hadn’t known better, I would have said it (the sound of her heels) sounded like I was running.” Got it. Yu were running but want to pretend yu were not. That is actually decent writing. “I was not running. I was just walking very fast.” Yeah, yu said that in the sentence before. No need to repeat that.

Lots of other bits that just read a bit off:
“(T)he pine scent of rosemary” Odd. I would hav said rosemary had a rosemary sent, not a pine sent.
“The offices were marked with a little sign that said ‘Office.’ How clever.” Yes. Labeling doors is very usef… Oh. You meant that sarcastically. Why? Why mock labeled doors?

At some point we got fat fobia thrown in for no reason at all. Basically “look, this woman thinks she is sexy but she is fat. Ha ha. A fat person thinking she could be sexy. It’s funny because she doesn’t realize that that’s impossible.”