Review: Needs a woman's touch
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 25, 2012
This writer reminds me a lot of another male author, H.T. Night and his Vampire Love Stories.  It took me awhile to get used to the male point of view of a "relationship" in his books and in TVLL, I had to concentrate on the action and not the relationships.  If you like H.T. Night or J. R. Rain, you will probably like this, but do not get this if you are expecting romance or love.I like the first person narrative as Txema shows us the change in her life over the course of 10 days.  She goes from being a new college student, to be hunted by evil, grotesque vampires and protected by "good", beautiful vampires.  Txema is the remaining descendent that has powerful blood to carry on the vampire's existence.  Her whole world changes as she is treated like royalty and given a new purpose in life.To be honest, Txema behaved in such a guy way emotionally, that a lot of the time it was really hard to identify with her.  She took things in as "facts" and she was not emotionally attached to any of the males.  In fact, she only really "bonded" on an emotional level with her female cousin Chanson and her roommate Tyreen.  She was never alarmed or scared or quizzical like a girl would be in trying to interpret their circumstances.  She just rolled with the flow like a guy, not at all put out by her new conditions.  She just waits to be told: if her friends are alright, what the vampires expect from her blood, why she is safer in France than in America or to reveal that the evil vampire come to her in her dreams. This is just not normal for a female and it did start to bother me.  Another thing that was off was that lots of the dialogue is interrupted by having to eat another meal.  Maybe another transitional idea could be used. Then every potential sex scene is interrupted by some kind of violence. As a girl reading this, there is just not enough emotional bonding or questions answered.So what?  Do I recommend it?  Yes, if you like male authors like those listed above. Will I read book 2?  Yes. Do I hope Txema becomes a woman who can genuinely care for and be devoted to one man?  Well, I can dream.  There is Profanity (sht, f-word,) and sex making it more for the readers of True Blood not Twilight.Would I/Did I buy it? Free DownloadWould I read it again? NoWould I recommend it to friends? Sure