Review: I'm forced to say it's good...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 31, 2014
Aijyn, a human slave falls for Rhiannon Donovan, the daughter to the vampire Queen, when Rhiannon is forced into an engagement with Aijyn's master an evil Vampire Lord of ancient Japan.This is a dramatic book. Where other vampire books try not to take themselves too seriously, with occasional self conscious humour, this one does it's best to maintain the atmosphere of a serious period piece.Being that the book is written in modern english the author asks you to suspend your disbelief by implying that what you are actually hearing the the common tongue of Vampires. At the times when it isn't in the common vampire tongue, you get the english "translation" of whatever language is being spoken. This allows the reader to always be in the loop. It's a style that works for the book ...most of the time. Occasionally the writer puts in a few common japanese words like "Arigato" and "-sama" to keep the Japanese feel, but because the illusion of understanding every language was already established, it does take you out a bit. Plus, the C-word (the c-word relating to female anatomy) is used on occasion, and though I realise that it is a much older word than people give it credit for, it's modern style/usage in this book it threw me out of the illusion of ancient japan more than once.As a whole the book itself is well written. I would highly recommend this book for people who like vampire literature. I would strongly recommend it for people who want "literature" in their vampire literature. I wouldn't call it high-literature though, but it does make efforts to be that way. There are a lot of occasions when it succeeds in that endeavour.I would not recommend this book for people who are reading for fun. If you're looking for an enjoyable read where you can trust the author to lead you to happy occurrences and enjoyable stuff, or maybe toe curling cute/romantic situations... then this is NOT the book for you.This is a great DRAMA/ROMANCE with a dash of ADVENTURE book. It's worth the read if you look at it from that perspective. Reading it as anything else will bring you down and make you, on more than one occasion, depressed.As someone who made the mistake of thinking this was going to be a fun romp, I was highly disappointed with the book. Please don't make the same mistake I did.However, as someone who appreciates a good story I am forced to say that this book is indeed a 4 star rated piece of literature. And yes, I will get the sequel when it comes out.