How Do You Like Your Vampires?
Loving, Kind, Scary, Cruel?
Welcome To A New Vampire World!
Author Tracy Auerback has created a vampire world I have never seen before. This is a tale of vampires in the down and dirty world they occupy below New York and the world where they hunt. It is raw, gritty, gory, and filled with monsters. It also a story of love and sacrifice.
STORY LINE:
Kate Plesser is an office assistant that can not seem to find her niche in life or a boyfriend worth his salt. She drinks too much, has no friends and drifts through life.
Hunter Bardock, given orders by Vampire Master Jonathan Bardock to breed, has kidnapped Kate. Hunter would be considered the good vampire of the story trying to eat human food and be more human. His back story was so sad and sweet.
Chase Bardock is Hunter’s vampire cousin and body-guard for Kate; handsome, compelling, unfeeling, and revolting. Chase is not the vampire you have seen in other book vampire novels. He is not the compelling, come here and kiss me vampire, while I gently feed from your throat, and promise to protect you forever as we walk off into the night; he is a down and dirty feeder on humans. His feeding habits are gross and disgusting; his emotions are nonexistent. Humans disgust Chase.
What follows is a journey you will not forget. It is addictive, intriguing, and leaves you wanting more. You will enter a vampire world I had not seen before; full of monsters. Kate enters a world of nightmares and so will you.
CHARACTERS, PLOTTING, AND DEVELOPMENT:
Ms. Auerback created a dark world filled with dark complex characters; from Hunter trying to be more human, the farming of humans, Hunter’s theories of vampirism, and the complex relationship between Jonathan, Hunter, Chase, and Kate; this novel will hold your attention.
Kate’s character is developed skillfully from a down on her luck girl to a confident woman. I loved watching Kate become a secure person of her own, ready to fight and not give up.
Chase is one of the biggest character developments in the novel. It was wonderful to watch Chase develop from an unfeeling, human hating creäture to…., well I am not going to tell you. You must read the novel to follow this wonderful story of monsters, family, underground breeding farms, sacrifice, and love. This novel is a wonderful story, well written, paced well and developed skillfully by Tracy Auerback.
The twists and turns in this story will hold your attention, and the presentation of the vampire world is definitely unique as it dispels vampire myths of old as you enter the raw world of the vampire. It has a bang up ending. It actually left me a little sad.
RECOMMENDATION:
This novel contains gory descriptions of vampires and violence. I would recommend this novel for young adult to adult due to violent content. I hope Author Auerback has plans to expand this into a series, I enjoyed my journey into Tracy Auerback’s vampire world and was sorry to come to the end of the novel.
I received this book from Readingalley in return for an honest book review.
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