Review: Interesting but illogical new concept
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 24, 2012
This book introduced a new aspect of vampires that I hadn't come across before - The Brethren - but I failed to see why 'God' should be on their side against the 'real' vampires.  The only differences I could see were that The Brethren all cursed God when they were about to die, only warriors were recruited to their ranks and they didn't indulge in sex. Otherwise I couldn't see why God should favor them when both The Brethren and the 'real' vampires both killed people when feeding off them.  Peredur in fact raised this during the first confrontation between the two groups but the reason why The Brethren were 'better' was never explained.The characters were a bit two dimensional except for Peredur and Cavan. Tanwen was a bit too obsessive to be real and some of her actions later in the book just didn't make sense to me.Other than the above points, the book was reasonably interesting and the action moved along quite well, but I did not find the book difficult to put down.  I don't think I would bother with the next book in the series.