Review: VAMPIRES & BLOOD-SPLATTERED KILLINGS...WITH STYLE
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 23, 2014
Another great book in this great series. We meet again the siblings Sarah and Shaun, the demon trackers, Sarah torn between her ex, Ray, and her imprisoned vampire (whom she can't resist letting suck her neck), and Shaun immersed within his beguiling relationship with the psychic, Elle. Beguiling? Just that they're attracted to each other, but not quite enough...maybe... As well as the strong sexual elements described with well-delineated candour, we have scenes of blood-letting, vampire-killing, hunts for psychotic killers, beheadings, possessed bodies, more blood-splattered killings, more swapping of possessed bodies...all described in graphic detail in Sharon Stevenson's effortless, sophisticated style. She has created a genre of her own, a world of youthful vampires and demon trackers, who are into twisted relationships, and junk food. Her unique style of casual horror, or domestic vampirism, blends the paranormal or other-worldly with the mundane and everyday. The consummate ease and freshness of her style enables her to create this world of adolescent concerns, obsessions, and even smells, which are acted out and resonate within the arena of supernatural beings and situations. Her fine eye for detail--the state of the weather, the junk food stuffed down eager throats--lends a quirky authenticity to her stories, and is an essential ingredient of their originality. Check out this book. Check out the whole series. Superb.