Review by Vicky London
“Eleisha Clevon has the face of a teen angel, but she is no angel. Unlike most vampires, she doesn’t like to kill, but self-preservation comes first. When an old friend destroys himself by walking into sunlight right in front of her, Eleisha is shocked. And what she finds afterward points to how very sick of his existence he had become — piling drained corpses in the basement and keeping records of other vampires’ real names and addresses. Because now, there are policemen on the case: two very special humans with some gifts of their own. They know who Eleisha is, and, even more dangerous, what she is.”– from BarbHendee.com
I really did not enjoy this book because I completely disliked the main character, the plot was full of tangents and there was too much info dumping. Eleisha is a vampire whose “gift” is to seem helpless, making men want to protect or take advantage of her. She carelessly murderers people, yet acts shocked when other vampires act in the same fashion. Eleisha seems fairly dim as well; even though she has lived over a hundred years she has never even contemplated the concept of drinking blood without killing. It’s not until about halfway through the book that you get any kind of background on her human life that attempts to make her a sympathetic character, but it was far too late for me. The back story of each character is relayed to the reader in big chunks of info dump via a kind of psychic mind-meld which effectively halts the plot.
According to the author’s website this is a “new” series but the book was originally written in 1998. Barb Hendee also writes the Noble Dead series with her husband J.C. Hendee.
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October 27th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
I do like the Noble Dead series by them. I could be mixing up authors but I think I’ve attempted to read a book that she wrote solo and didn’t really care for it unless that was Barbara Hambley. That could be it. That is odd that they’re calling it new unless it happens to be a rerelease. I’m wondering if the LJ Smith books that are coming out again are considered new.