Review: When Love and Attraction Comes to a Resistent Vampire Warrior King
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 21, 2012
Sometimes its hard to really get any depth out of a novella length story.  Laura Kaye does not suffer with this weakness.  This one jumps right in introducing the world, the characters, and the plot.It begins with Kael, King of the Vampires, readying for his next donation of blood which he can only feed from his mate or a virgin.  His most love mate died during an attack by vampires gone bad leaving him full of pain so he refuses to even attempt to put himself out there to another mate again.  His solution is a controlled ritualistic situation in which a Proffered, willing human girl, offers up her blood and her body.  Unfortunately, he feels an instant attraction for The Proferred, Shayla, and treats her badly before sending her away.Shayla's sister was killed by the bad vampires and she wants to do anything she can to help the good one's fight.  Her goal is to get on the board of the humans who help the warriors and she is thrilled to be chosen as the Proferred because she has a secret attraction for Kael who she has studied.  It hurts dreadfully when after she comes before him with everything seeming to go well that he turns cold and sends her away.Kael feels regret, but it is only with the advice of his closest friend, that he decides that he will regret it forever if he does not try to get Shayla back.The story is a unique paranormal in that there is no action.  Its all about the relationship.  That being said, this does not make it boring.  Laura Kaye has a gift for painting a scene with the broad brush making you see the big picture quickly and making you get into the story.  But she also does good detail work describing the nuances between Kael and Shayla that just make for beautiful art.The characters are few on the ground, but the ones that are there are wonderful written and I enjoyed each one.  Shayla with her intrepid courage and capacity to love and feel compassion was my favorite character.  No one can deny the appeal of the Vampire Warrior King either.Nice one-sitting read!