Review: Variety Pack of Vampire Fun
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 20, 2013
Bites is a variety pack of vampire fun! But just like those variety packs of single serving cereals (loved those as a kid) some of the boxes hold better contents than the others.My favorites are "Reality Bites" by Jim Bernheimer, with its wicked ending and hilarious dead/undead legal conundrum, and "Night Train", by Rayne Hall. I knew where Hall was going, but the train ride was like a vivid nightmare for this traveler so I went along for the ride. "Winter Flower" by Jonathan Broughton had a wonderful voice. Major kudos for total creepiness to Douglas Kolacki's "Why I Won't Read Song of Solomon." The suburban normalcy, guilt and manipulation is scarier than the bloodiest vamps.Some of the stories were clearly opening gambits for longer works. The self-contained tales seemed to work best for this Vampire fan.