Review: Well Written Vampire Horror
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 19, 2013
I love this vampire book. It is about a woman who is attacked. Her husband is killed and she is turned into a vampire. Years before she, her husband and her brother, fought vampires and killed some. Now Jenny is a single mother, recovering from the attack and finding herself changing into a vampire. Imagine her horror at that. Imagine her fear of harming her children. Imagine her love that refuses to give up her children. As you can tell this is not your sparkly, friendly vampire book. The author develops her characters superbly. We know and care about them. It is funny, but, one of the descriptive words that I think of with this book is healing. We are witness to a family healing from a huge loss. You might not think that possible in a vampire story but it is in this one. And it works. However, this is a horror story. Do not be fooled by what I have written so far. There is violence in this book. What we believe are vampires, do kill in it. In horrifying ways. And they kill children. I love that Ms. Griffith has kept the violence on the low end of graphic. It is there, just not like it could have been written. Most of it is suggestive, the way a good horror book is written. We get the set up, our imagination terrifies us and then we get what happened. I love that. I love when the author invites my imagination to play. I am hoping there is a follow up book.This was a riveting book, well written. I recommend it.There is violence in the book. There is no sex or bad language.I read this as a stand alone book, however, it is connected to Vampire Blood. Vampire Blood tells the story of Jenny's first encounter with vampires.