Review: A SUPERB TALE OF VAMPIRES AND FAST FOOD
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 13, 2013
A great story involving demon trackers, vampires, witches, fairies and psychos. The two central characters are twins Shaun and Sarah, in their late teens; as fallen angels their role is to hunt down and kill vampires and black magic practitioners. The story goes at a great pace, from one blood-curdling incident to another;  Sharon Stevenson creates a wonderfully graphic atmosphere where you can as good as smell the foul vampirish odours and, as the demon trackers clean out vampire nests, feel and taste the gunge and gunk of exploding vampirish bodies. But there is more to the author's writing skills than this: she is able to describe and convey effortlessly the essence of teenage life, with its angst, romantic and sexual upheavals, and endemic penchant for trashy fast food. It's a story that hurtles you along in its wake. Sharon Stevenson writes brilliantly and has created an authentic milieu where a paranormal world and a normal world thrillingly coalesce. Her characters, immersed in an environment both of supernatural beings and of adolescence's travails, distil and encapsulate what every good book needs: a viable reality we can really believe. Great stuff.