Review: Disappointing
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 19, 2013
This "twin pack" consists of almost one novel, but is missing a beginning and an ending.  Starting "in media res" (in the middle of things) is a fine device if the author works in some of the beginning information a bit later.  I don't want to spoil the almost ending, but I guessing that, if there is a volume 3, it will focus on characters that came in near the end of volume 2.  My guess is based on this approach from volume 1 to volume 2: vol. 2 focused mainly on characters brought in at the end of vol. 1.  I could not generate much interest in the main characters in either volumes 1 & 2, and I have no interest in the minor characters added near the end.I also had a hard time suspending my disbelief while reading this book.  Both main and minor human characters range between naive and, well, stupid. In vol 1, for example, I was expecting some insidious vampire powers to explain what was going on--but instead the human characters themselves were responsible for the situation.  Perhaps they were all in shock from the unexplained apocalypse prior to the start of the book.I gave the book a three (as opposed to a two) because it does many of the basic story-telling devices "right" (the psychological motivations were credible, for example) and because two of the main characters were Canadian.