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3.6 AVERAGE
3.6 AVERAGE
In some ways, this might be called "urban fantasy", but it was published before that term came into widespread use. The setting is modern, and the take on how various supernatural creatures fit into the modern world is interesting. It is also much darker and more serious in tone than most books that have the urban fantasy label. The tone and style is a bit more serious horror novel. Do notthink "Laurell K. Hamilton" (thankfully), as this books lacks a lot of the silly Mary-Sue quality (and smut) of that sort of book. The content is (darkly) adult, but for the purpose of exploring issues and characters, not for the purpose of titillation. If you like vampire novels at all, and you can handle a darker horror-novel read, then I would highly recommend this book. Just don't go into it expecting Anita Blake or Twilight. You might be traumatized.
“I wear my sunglasses at night
So I can, so I can
Watch you weave then breathe your story lines”
The first thing that comes to my head is Corey Hart’s Sunglasses at Night lyrics. It just fits.
Now that I’ve thrown your attention off…
If you are looking for a vampire story, you sure found the right book. Full of blood, gore and plenty of action this series is not your typical full-on romance story telling fantasy. Fare warning, if you do not like horror, sexual references and drug mentions this is not the book for you.
Denise Thorne is a young rich girl looking to step her foot into an adult world. It all happens in a club in London, with music blaring form the speakers and champagne in hand Denise is having the time of her life dancing with Lord Morgan.
Thinking all of her dreams are coming true, Morgan asks Denise to go out and enjoy the perfect night. So the get into his Rolls Royce and it off to lovey dovey fantasy land. Wrong. Denise quickly finds herself being driven by a vampire and then Morgan shows his true intentions, brutally raping Denise and leaving her for dead on the side of the road.
Unbeknown to Morgan, Denise survives however a new other is born insider her as well. This struggle of human and demon inside her create a difficult push and pull of viciousness and remorse throughout the entire series. Sonja finds herself at odds with herself and having difficulty accepting what she has become. In this story we learn about her struggle to survive this change and the evangelist queen Catherine Wheeler.
The book started of with a nice amount of gore and blood spilled. This kept me intrigued as well as the pages turning. Unraveling the story of Sonja Blue was interesting as she is different from other vampires. My initial interest and connection is the Thirst series by Christopher Pike. But these are very different vampiric chicks.
The powers both psychic and physical are well played out and flowed well through this first book. Sonja is tough as nails, pretty much immortal. Even the sun and silver do not affect her unlike other vampires.
If you want to get away for a few hours and read something that captures the spirit of straight to VHS horror from the 80s, this is it.
Not a book to be taken as serious literature but definitely a rollicking piece of sugar that is equally too sweet and scintillatingly satisfying. The writing and world building was a uneven, the recently edited sections stood out starkly from early untouched ones.