Review: Unusual take on Vamps!  People who like sparkly need not apply.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 21, 2014
Ava has a huge problem.  She was out and stopped a vampire from killing a man and rescued him.  Now he is her slave and she does not know how to help him.  She has lived alone and wants his blood too much to have him stay.  His name is Carl and he is an accountant who is engaged, but does not want to get married and seems happy to stay with her.  She has never found out anything about herself and ends up having to call her grandmother who refers her to a hunter named Peter and she ends up in a book store filled with magic.  She has to find the vamp who originally attacked Carl, get him to help her reverse it, get out of there before both sides of a vampire showdown try to kill her.  Simple!Ava Delaney was abused by her grandmother in her attempt to cure Ava instead of work on her problem. If a character has very few interactions with humans who are not abusing her or in danger, she does not have the social cues or speak enough to produce anything but clunky language.  I think that beautiful language makes reading a pleasure, but this character has been alone for years in isolation.  There are some weak spots but I think this author is using language to let us know who Eve really is besides a half vampire day walker and that is clunky and awkward.  She resorts to numbers and math, because they are dependable and a language all their own.  Some of Eve's behavior is not so much OCD, but more like a high functioning autistic adult.  Vampires are not bright and shiny people in this story.  Ava is a dead woman if one side gets her and will be used to make an army of day walkers if the other side does.