Review: Clear and Well Plotted
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 11, 2013
I don't read vampire novels, but I enjoyed reading this one in exchange for an honest review.  It's written starkly, more like a screenplay than a fleshed-out novel,  but it is very clear, and it is well plotted.  The same character is in the novel from beginning to end, and I cared what happened to him.  Cain first appears in the background of  his mother's brief and tragic tale. Lovely Elizabeth, grieving for her husband,  is torn from her solitary life of and turned into a vampire, then discarded  by Vasile, a cold-hearted, vicious  vampire who has come to war-torn London in 1944 to feed.  Elizabeth chooses to die by fire after turning her son Cain into a vampire to save his life. Through Cain, we experience the anguish of being  one of the undead, fending off the evil ones and learning not to kill his victims.  I also can relate to the mission he is on, to revenge his mother's fate.  His quest takes him to America, where he finds love.  Will he and Mia survive the centuries together?