Review: I wish it had been twice as long!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 20, 2013
This was the story of Vlad, who finds out in his young adulthood that he's the son of Count Dracula.  He's promptly immersed in a world of vampire politics that he claims to be uninteresting but which he plays with great skill and delight.  The book was intriguing and an incredibly quick read.Blood Addiction is set in modern times, though at first as I read, I thought the book was set in the twenties because of the slang and cadences in the dialog.  The types of characters are also fairly typical of books set in that era--the detectives particularly made me think of private eyes circa The Maltese Falcon in the beginning.  I was a little disappointed in the title because the passage it's drawn from felt a little forced and didn't match the rest of the novel, but that's a fairly minor detail.Aside from a really good editor, however, all this book really needed was to be a little longer.  The characters were fairly flat because they didn't have much time to develop.  The book is fairly plot heavy and most of the characters are there to push the plot, but there are delicious hints of complex personalities hidden in the details.  Some revision and a few more pages of details would have done wonders for the story and would guarantee a host of fans for the continuation of it.I recieved a free copy of the book in exchange for my review.