Review: Great Collection With Analysis Too
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 19, 2012
This is an excellent collection and I am still thinking about the story, "Why I Won't Read Song of Solomon" by Colacki.I like Rayne Hall's writing a great deal and though I don't read a lot of vampire books, I knew there'd be some interesting analysis provided. Early into the book there was a quote I thought about, " A character needs to drain another human life's essence in order to replenish its own."  There were a number of philosophical questions about vampires that were posed in the beginning including what does the victim want in the exchange, which were very helpful in approaching the 10 stories.Kolacki's story talks about the one-dimensional view we have of vampires and shows a psychological dimension that is not the literal one so many people think about...his tale connects it to robbing someone of love. The image of how being touched by a "vampire" can be similar to contact with a typhoid carrier was quite illuminating.