Review: Not The Usual Vampire Novel
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 15, 2013
It took me a couple of chapters to actually get into this novel but once I did I was hooked.  The story of Lexi was a leftover from the previousThe Master of Whitehallnovel which was also a different kind of vampire novel in it's lack of bloodletting violence, a trait shared with this novel.They both have one instance of violence on people who richly deserved the fate they received, but the rest of this book is pretty much devoted to character development and kind of a "day in the life of a vampire" type theme.  I am sure that description does not make you want to run out and buy the book but let me say it becomes addicting.  The detailed process from a terminal cancer patient to becoming a fledgling vampire to full strength immortal was enthralling to me.Most vampire novels are dedicated to either a romance or some effort to defeat the "big bad evil thing", but this novel does neither.  It simply follows what would be a realistic track (as realistic as possible I guess is more accurate) of what a person would have to go through to actually make the transition from human to immortal.  While Lexi is surrounded by loving friends in this novel I still found it a bit sad since ultimately she suffers from the normal human emotion of loneliness so we have a romance of sorts and dealing with that is a large part of this novel.Following Lexi's now immortal life was as entertaining as most of those battles and MINE romances that I have read and was a more thought provoking novel than most, it has a tinge of making the reader wish for a similar life which usually indicates a really great story.  That held true in this story.Bottom Line: It was a great book, in many ways I found it to be superior to the first novel although if I was forced to throw out some negatives it might be an excessive amount of descriptions but then again they did not come off as superfluous to me but there were many descriptions of clothes and hair which usually detract for me but in this novel did so on a much less intrusive manner. Buy both books and enjoy a story worth telling and a lot more soothing to the soul than normally you expect. 4.5 Stars