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jaeravenclaw 's review for:
Until Summer Comes Around
by Glenn Rolfe
A huge thank you to Glenn Rolfe, Flame Tree Press and Netgalley for the opportunity to read an advanced copy of this book.
Until Summer Comes Around is many things, but boring is not one of them. It starts out idyllically enough, summer boardwalks and sweet fried treats, waves crashing, kids playing, tourists in abundance. Rolfe begins with a picture of sunlight and very little worry for one teenage boy slowly coming into his own.....until people start to go missing and the darkness begins to fall over his beach town . As the summer and tourist season starts, Rocky believes that he has found the girl of his dreams when he meets November and that this will be a summer to remember...and he's right. For the wrong reasons.
A little bit Lost Boys, a little bit Let the Right One In, a little bit Nosferatu, I was glad not to have found this to be the stereotypical vampire story as Until Summer Comes Around has its own type of sparkle..the sparkle of the ocean in the daytime when you're cruising the boardwalk arcades with your best girl, the sparkle of young budding love, the sparkle of nostalgia for the reader without having to mask it with fog and glitter. This book has its own soundtrack that I adore and quite honestly, I could see this as a made-for-tv movie (hey, if it was good enough for Craven....). Vampire books have been done time and again, but it was refreshing to read one of them in a different type of light (see what I did there?)
This isn't my first book by Mr. Rolfe and it definitely will not be my last as he is starting to become one of my favorites in horror writing. I wasn't disappointed with Until Summer Comes Around and if there's a sequel in the works, I would be interested in reading more of the lives of Rocky and November. Just a thought.
Until Summer Comes Around is many things, but boring is not one of them. It starts out idyllically enough, summer boardwalks and sweet fried treats, waves crashing, kids playing, tourists in abundance. Rolfe begins with a picture of sunlight and very little worry for one teenage boy slowly coming into his own.....until people start to go missing and the darkness begins to fall over his beach town . As the summer and tourist season starts, Rocky believes that he has found the girl of his dreams when he meets November and that this will be a summer to remember...and he's right. For the wrong reasons.
A little bit Lost Boys, a little bit Let the Right One In, a little bit Nosferatu, I was glad not to have found this to be the stereotypical vampire story as Until Summer Comes Around has its own type of sparkle..the sparkle of the ocean in the daytime when you're cruising the boardwalk arcades with your best girl, the sparkle of young budding love, the sparkle of nostalgia for the reader without having to mask it with fog and glitter. This book has its own soundtrack that I adore and quite honestly, I could see this as a made-for-tv movie (hey, if it was good enough for Craven....). Vampire books have been done time and again, but it was refreshing to read one of them in a different type of light (see what I did there?)
This isn't my first book by Mr. Rolfe and it definitely will not be my last as he is starting to become one of my favorites in horror writing. I wasn't disappointed with Until Summer Comes Around and if there's a sequel in the works, I would be interested in reading more of the lives of Rocky and November. Just a thought.