Review: Too Absurd... And Thankfully Too Short. 1/2 star
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 07 29, 2011
While the price of this exceedingly short and very disappointing novella might entice you into downloading it... DON'T! I read it in less than an hour and with each minute that elapsed, each paged turned I kept hoping for something, anything intriguing to occur.From the opening paragraphs in chapter one, the book needed some serious editing. Typos like her for he and other pronoun switches were unbelievable.  Scenes described in one paragraph were contradicted later on. For instance the room, in Sara's apartment, was described initially as being empty. Yet two paragraphs later, the same room no longer was barren but had a couch that she laid on, a glass coffee table, a TV in the corner and several unpacked boxes. The author then concluded that the room was sparsely furnished... You don't say!The alley scene dialogue between Gedeon and Pryse was so passive and boring that it failed to get my adrenaline pumping. Gedeon, being a 450 year old vampire / healer, had the partial recipe for a concoction to convert vamps to day walkers. This part  reminded me of Wesley Snipes' 'Blade' trilogy movies. While Blade's  story lines were sci-fi plausible, this one was inane. Let's consider this, you are a healer with a recipe that allows vamps to become daywalkers and in the 450 yrs of your existence you have not perfected it. What have you been doing with your eternity Gedeon? Obviously lollygagging.In Kerrelyn Sparks' novels, when Connor drinks Roman Draganesti of RomanTech daywalking elixir, it bestowed upon Connor the ability to age several years, in addition to being able to walk in the sunlight and kill their rival Russian bad vampire sect in Brooklyn. Now that's a positive vampiric role model, not only did Roman create synthetic blood so vampires would no longer drain or force unwilling humans to part with their blood but he perfected his daywalking elixir.This novella  poorly blended plots from the Blade series and the Sparks novels and did an even worse job on the characters. Please don't bother wasting your time to download and read this trash even if it's free. I/ we should be paid for undergoing the torture of read this NO'novel'. Argh!