Review: AN INTRIGUING VAMPIRE ROMANCE
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 18, 2014
An Intriguing Vampire RomanceI had an interesting experience with this novel, borrowed for Kindle via my Amazon Prime account. The copy I received had numerous editing/proofing flaws, mostly punctuation, improper use of pronouns, extraneous and missing words, and choppy, disconnected sentences and paragraphs. Despite all its faults I found the story to be an intriguing page turner, with many an unexpected turn of events. I decided to rate it 3 stars, derived by averaging 4 stars for the story and 2 stars for the production/editing/proofing problems.Much to my surprise, when I opened the book this morning to refresh my memory on the kind and location of the problems, I found all had been corrected. The book had none of the problems I recorded in reading it. I can only surmise an updated copy had been uploaded to Amazon and my copy was updated as a result.This is an excellent book, clearly 5 star quality in every way. Especially intriguing is the romance between mortal humans and immortal vampires. Also intriguing is the process by which humans are turned into vampires, becoming immortal (but still susceptible to being killed!).Too, I was surprised by the dialogue about the possibility of vampires going to Heaven. They decided the question in the affirmative on the basis that good vampires, though sometime killers of humans, do so only to protect themselves and others. This makes sense in a weird sort of way given that the Bible teaches everything that exists was created by God for His purposes.I can’t say the book contains no typos or other proofing/editing problems since I didn’t reread the book looking for them. The only nit I found to pick with the version on my Kindle is extra spaces between some paragraphs. These surely result from using carriage returns for spacing instead of the word processor’s paragraph formatting function. They do not detract from the reading experience, and can be easily corrected.In short, an excellent read. I tip my hat to an accomplished writer and to an entertaining and intriguing work of fiction.