Review: I don't do vampire books but...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 27, 2013
I don’t want to give any misconceptions here about what I like to read, so let me start by saying, at first I wanted to read the book, because Travis Luedke gave me a free copy on Twitter and I am all about supporting writers, without them I wouldn’t have met some of my favorite fictional friends. The blog tour showed up a couple days later and I thought, well, I committed myself to suffering through one book about vampires, why not all three. That’s right, I said suffer through… I just don’t read vampire books.  If I wanted to read Twilight, I would. That’s right; it’s just not my type of book. Yes, I read the Pyte/Sentinal books by RL Mathewson and the Providence series by Jamie McGuire so vampires and paranormal books are not totally out of the question, I think for me it is just not my kind of book. So naturally, I was ready to force myself through this book and write a review which would probably not do it justice.So I start reading the first book… The Nightlife New York. I keep telling myself, I don’t do vampires, I don’t do vampires… but oh my, I may reconsider after reading this book! In fact, I think I would totally do a vampire in this book, wait, that’s not exactly what I meant to say…I don’t do vampire books…Aaron was just another innocent guy at a crossroads in his life trying to figure out his place in the world until that one night he sees his damsel in distress… he can’t help but see Michelle in all of her French beauty. There’s a fight, a gun goes off and Aaron’s life is changed forever. Michelle saves Aaron’s life. But there is an eternal price to pay. But along with that eternal price, Aaron’s life will never be the same, his needs will change, his interests have to change. He takes a new direction in life that mixes the two in a world of prostitution, corruption and the need for a bite… What I didn’t bargain for was the amazing hot sex and the result from a single prick from those pointy teeth. I suddenly felt the need to have Aaron sink his fangs in my neck… with a result like you get from reading this book, it would so be worth it.I don’t do vampire books. I think about the strength and movement these two make in the night and the abilities they have… what I would give to be able to read minds, leap from building to building and to have such amazing strength…beyond the strength, it comes back to the amazing adventures in the bedroom, on the dance floor, in a hotel room, or anywhere there is clean blood. This book was capturing and I didn’t want to put it down (darn day job!). I was lost in this book and I really enjoyed the pull it had on me.I don’t do vampire books and I don’t do the French language. One criticism I usually have when more than one language is used in writing is that I feel lost… I am one of those people that needs to read things in the language I know. It may be the language of love but I never learned more than to say “I am very stupid,” and order various foods in French in that high school class. However, with that said, I did not feel lost by the language; I was captured by the language as much as the characters. I loved Aaron and Michelle and the nuances of New York. I was addicted to this book and maybe the hope of the bite.I really recommend this book and with all this gawking and gushing over this book, I have to remind myself I don’t do vampire books. For me that says so much about the writer. Travis Luedke took me to a whole new dimension in books to read with this and I was so excited to read about Michelle and Aaron hitting the strip next in The Nightlife Las Vegas.