Review: An interesting plot with twists and turns makes for a must read!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 26, 2013
The first novella ended in quite a tense situation, which continues throughout this one. In this second installment of the series, time has jumped forward a bit. After learning in the previous novel that there is a new breed of vampires, which even makes the older race of vampires feel threatened, Romania, once the worlds only vampire-free country has striken a deal with this older race, to join arms against the new threat.For this cause, Liana, our female leadcharacter is sent out to New Zealand with an army of Pandurs (Romania's guards, initially trained to defend the country against vampires) where the new breed of vampires stems from. This to learn more about their origins, nature, and most important, how to defend themselves against them.In this warlike setting, which is undoubtly a lot grittier than the first novella, there are some expected fight scenes, even including torture and slaughter, yet it never gets too gruesome for the squeemish ones amongst us. There are some twists and turns, which make for an interesting plot, which I am very curious to follow into the third installments of this series.Frequent readers of Ioana Visan's work will know that a laugh or a pun are never that far around the corner, no matter how bad the circumstances may be. That combined with some romance, which luckily gets not in the way of the plot, makes it for a much lighter read than my above attempt at summary may suggest.