The first book in the Vampire Huntress series introduces the characters. Damali Richards is the slayer or Neteru. The other main characters are Guardians of the Neteru who also moonlight as her band for Damali’s spoken word performances. The characters Marlene and Shabazz seem to be the parental figures of the group. The other characters are Big Mike, Rider, Jose, J.L., and Dan. These people all live together, perform as a band, and hunt vampires at night.
There have been strange attacks on gang members. Instead of the typical vampire bites, the corpses are left mutilated beyond recognition. One of the most powerful master vampires, Fallon Nuit is behind these attacks. Now Nuit has set his sights on Damali and she will find out the past connection she has with him.
The writing in Minion falls flat. The action descriptions are plodding and clunky at best making it hard to visualize what is going on in a scene. The author tries too hard to make the characters sound hip and ends up sounding cheesy instead.
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February 10th, 2007 at 12:15 am
The only reason the writing sounds “cheesy” is because like most main stream American’s are accustomed to the packaged “hip hop” and pre fabricated “hipness” sold to the public by bored suburban kids playing at being hip and urban.
Reading this after a steady diet of the packaged “hipness” is a shock to the system. If the reader took the time to learn about the culture behind the “urban myth” that is packaged and sold to the public and then read the book it would be seen as the fine writing that it is.
Clarice