Review: Nightlife Las Vegas
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 26, 2013
My rating is 4.5 of 5 starsAaron and Michelle leave behind the drama that surrounded them in New York to lay low in Las Vegas. From the outset, it's easy to see how this might not work out so well for them. They run afoul of drug dealing thugs and break their one rule of not creating blood slaves.First Aaron generates a little too much interest and negative attention by using his talents to cheat players at poker. This puts him on the radar of a drug dealer and his security contacts in the casinos. With a grudge to settle and a desire to possess Michelle, these men plot to get rid of Aaron and turn Michelle into a prostitute by hooking her on heroin.Before they work on putting their plan in motion, Michelle and Aaron unaware that they are being surveiled closely, feed their hedonistic desires with partying as only Las Vegas offers. Aaron finds his interest piqued by a beautiful girl named Ana with a touch of telepathy and suddenly he can't live without her and proceeds to turn her into his blood slave.As the criminal plot unfolds around the trio, their lives spiral into a dark chaos of drug abuse, bloody violence and death.The criminal involvement promised some interesting plot lines, but ultimately fell into the confusion of the drug fueled chaos and produced some creatively violent deaths and a new character that looks to continue into the next installment of Nightlife.The blood slave, Ana, initially looked like she would be a unique and interesting character, after all her gypsy heritage and telepathic abilities were what drew Aaron to her in the first place. But, that talent did not develop into anything other than a convenient way to communicate with her master, Aaron. Her addition to Aaron and Michelle's passionate love life was sexy and promising but that didn't last when Ana ended up showing herself to be a severely emotionally damaged alcoholic. She was self-loathing and needy and it was a little difficult to see how and why she graduated from "pet" to precious loved one.The story is an interesting chapter for Aaron and Michelle, but I feel like our favorite vampires have lost a little of their innocence and likability. The drug fueled debauchery and hedonism was not an attractive side of them. I hope they will redeem themselves a little in the next adventure. I look forward to The Nightlife: Paris.Noelle Blakely, Author of Cherishing Destiny