Review: The Story as Entertainment
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 30, 2011
Some novels are never meant to be indepth layers of plot and character.  Some of these novels are, in fact, preferable to those so deep you peel away like the layers of an onion.  They are simply meant to be stories starting from Point A to Point ___ with action as the main component and more mysteries abounding that you can count on one hand.  You either like that kind of story or you don't - a lot of people do.  We don't want to think; we want our escape.  Claire Ferrell's Ava Delaney #1: Thirst does just that.Ava Delaney is doing everything she can to stay under the radar of everyone, especially those in the vampire world.  Through a fluke of her birth, she is both human and vampire - a hybrid that is not supposed to exist.  The vampire gives her problems, the main one is dealing with a thirst for blood (hence the title).  She exists alone, keeping away from everyone.  Storywise, this is not going to happen.  She plays the good samaritan and saves a human from another vampire's drinking and ends up with a minion named Carl (call him a slave, a volunteer).In order to extricate the problem of the unwanted Carl, her world will be expanded with others of uncertain motives and powers which will push her out into the very world she wished to avoid.Ava Delaney #1: Thirst is the beginning of a series planting the heroine smack dab in a world of undead movers and shakers who have the ability to take her down at any time.  She will have learn to survive with the help of questionble allies and the family situation she ran away from and mysteries yet to be reaveled.  This review is meant to inform on what to expect.  The rating of three stars means the novel held true to its original intent.