Review: Excellent addition to the genre!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 1, 2014
This is an amazing, action packed adventure by E.B. hood, and Melabeth the Vampire kept me obsessed and enthralled until the early hours of the morning.Melabeth has suffered hideously, but the author manages to convey the horror without being overly graphic, and I would not hesitate to recommend this book to older young adult readers.As a new vampire, Melabeth is thrown right into the thick of her strange new supernatural existence and is in dire need of help and companionship. <spoiler> This she finds in her 'not quite absent' Master, a ghost and a necromancer. Further to these, there are other interesting characters involved in Melabeth's life - both good and bad! The 'White' family's Alice gave me chills, Carrie made me laugh, and David was a superb choice as Melabeth's love interest.The book progresses a good pace, with Melabeth rising to each challenge with a certain dignity and grace, though she clearly struggles with her new condition, her need for retribution, and the desire to keep her friends safe.The ending sets up nicely for the next in the series and I look forward to reading more from the author who is most certainly a skilled story teller.