Review: To Be Read as Part of a Series
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 22, 2012
Zillael is a teenager who finds herself a loner in a small town high school after moving there from a larger city.  Often home alone as her mother travels the world for work purposes, the girl is largely independent and wanting to bide her time until she can graduate and move on.  Her mother forbids her to use her one apparent talent, speed, in a sport like track and field, and the girls who do notice her do not want to be her friend--just the opposite.  The school counselor apparently feels she needs more of a social life and designs Zillael's punishments to interact with other students, the most immediate being to work at the dance, serving punch with a boy that the other girls claim as their own.  While serving her duty, Zillael is attacked by strangers.  While defending herself, she is aided by the boy and a teacher who seems to be able to communicate silently through mere thought.  The story moves on to introduce the reader to a variety of strange people, ideas and aptitudes that start to abound around Zillael, including the discovery that her mother is not all she seems.Good writing skills are diminished by distractions that are a result of either poor editing or a poor formatting to the Kindle translation, which is likely since this was a free offering by Amazon. In terms of the story line, as a stand-alone novel, the book fails to deliver a climactic action that would bring the story's elements together in a laudable conclusion.  However, as an installment in a larger series, the work appears to introduce characters and elements that perhaps offer insight to actions that are most likely explained in subsequent installments.  If you prefer to have a complete story in a single novel, this book will disappoint;  however, if you can accept a story line that uses a carefully controlled plot line that advances through a sequence of novels, at least one of which does not contain a complete story in itself, then this is a book that could be recommended for readers also interested in the world of vampires and the possibility of their existence in today's world.