Review by Vicky London
Child of the Night by Nancy Kilpatrick is the first book in the Power of the Blood series. Carol is vacationing in Bordeaux, France trying to recover from the tragic failure of her marriage. At a small sidewalk cafe she meets Andre and her life changes forever in a brutal and shocking way. Andre is not a man but a vampire intent on making Carol his next kill. Carol fights against his attack and her refusal to beg for her life intrigues him. And so begins their twisted relationship.
Carol makes a bargain with Andre to stay for two weeks and do anything he desires in return for her freedom and his agreement not to drink her blood. Carol and Andre both get more than they bargained for when Carol becomes pregnant. Such a child between human and vampire is very special and hasn’t occurred for hundreds of years. Andre and the family of vampires he lives with determine that the child must be raised by them.
Andre’s attempt to wipe Carol’s memory of the entire experience and her newborn son starts her on a fifteen year quest to remember what happened to her. Her search takes her all over Europe and ends with the discovery of her son and an invitation that is more life changing than anything that has come before.
The Review:
Kilpatrick packs in a huge amount of action (and time) in a relatively short number of pages. The tale takes you from France and the rest of Europe, across the ocean to Philadelphia and north to Montreal. The twists and turns of the plot keep the story moving at a fast pace.
There is a very perverse kind of love and obsession between Carol and Andre. These vampires are not sensual but are seductive in their terrifying superiority. Child of the Night is a very well written erotic horror novel. Kilpatrick’s prose is illuminating and precise in a way that brings her vampire world to shuddering life.
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