Review: Darkly Seductive
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 3, 2013
If you are looking for Twilight this is not it.23 year old, Bethany Trent, is no Hollywood Barbie doll, in fact, quite the opposite.  She's always been the quiet, drab, passive, nearly invisible, geek in the corner, by choice. Employed, and self-sufficient, but keeping few friends or personal ties, and preferring her chosen low-key life of solitude.  These attributes are part of what attracted the ancient vampire Galt to her, not for love or lust, but to use and manipulate her in his plot for revenge, spawned out of rage against another vampire.  He turns her into a fledgling vampire and leaves her to herself without giving her the slightest knowledge of what has been done to her.  It takes her many days to come to understand the metamorphous that is happening to her, and she is not happy about it!  Talk about an extreme makeover! Cardew has manifested a playground of demonic souls in this crossover stratosphere of otherworldly creatures. It's their dark paranormal presence, on an unsuspecting human world, which Bethany must learn to navigate if she is to circumvent eternity as another vampire's slave.  Vampires are, by their nature, brazened with seductive mastery such that mortals are mere toys for their pleasure, but another vampire....  There is more that can be stolen than just one's life.  But then there are rules, and there are those that break them.  Cardew is a phenomenal writer, and I enjoyed every page of this book.