Review: Not just a Romance
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 3, 2013
I would want to write a perfect review of this book but words fail me. Dark Genesis was not what I expected among books I scan for "pleasure reading"  but I am grateful to have found it . This story will strike a deep emotional cord within your consciousness and challenge your understanding of love, caring and acceptance. The author shows great skill and understanding of her subject as she artfully weaves together  the dark elements  of slavery and vampirism. She poignantly illustrates a biblical truth that love truly is as strong as death as you will see at the story's end.For it's poignancy, this book is emotionally exhausting.  Luna, the main character, tells her story in a voice more eloquent than that which attests to her slave status. She tells of the ugliness of slavery and rape that isolated her from the goodness of love and how she found love in a place thought to be empty of anything good and with an entity (Avery) thought to be evil. I'm reminded of  truths "shouted" by wisdom: He will use the things of the world to confound the wise; he uses the destroyer for his purpose. Is his purpose not that we do unto others as we would have them do unto us?  As did Luna, I too would accept the salvation offered by Avery. After all we identify the tree by the fruit it bears and Avery manifested more good than any of the Massas.  Hah! And they thought him to be evil. Though a good read, I rated this book a four because i would have wanted a different ending for Luna and Avery.  Their being together will be my only impetus for my reading the forthcoming sequel!