Review of "The Beat of a Bloodless Heart" – A New Vampire Novel
With new vampire romance novels entering the marketplace all the time, and with all the recent fondness for them, here is a review of a new vampire novel, The Beat of a Bloodless Heart. This new offering into the vampire genre is geared at the teen vampire romance audience.
Synopsis: Diane was a plain and simple small town girl of the early 1900's when she became a vampire. Like all vampires, she had to kill to survive--but she didn't like what she had to do. Killing and drinking blood was not in her nature. She did everything she could to avoid it, but the compulsion was too strong. It was the way she lived, the only way she could survive.
Then she met a boy who changed everything.
Here is a sample of the first two paragraphs of the novel:
"The starless night was dark and stormy. A thick covering of grey clouds blotted out any light the moon may have cast. The sky threatened a coming rainstorm but that hadn't happened yet. The gloomy darkened sky made tonight's kill easier than most. No one could see me hidden in the shadows of the garbage strewn alley. I was perched behind a rusting solid steel trash bin covered with ripped and shredding political posters, biting my nails absent-mindedly and killing time until a likely prospect showed up. There wasn't much going on in this decaying section of the city at this time of the night. It was a warehouse district for the most part, with a few shabby (and probably shady) establishments scattered here and there amongst the aging storehouses. My hiding spot was just south of a fishery that reeked of smelly, rotting fish. There was a greasy spoon diner with a bar attached right at the head of the alley where I waited. The customers that frequented it were usually rough-house type characters of no-good account. I had no mental qualms at taking down any of the clientele (if you could call them that) coming out of there. I had my standards and they were not on the high side.
It was just after midnight and the bar crowd had not yet spewed onto the streets for their homeward stagger. Pickings were few but I only had to wait a short time for my prospective victims to show up. They were two men actually, obviously drunk, probably a couple of patrons from the grimy whiskey joint nearby. I could hear their boisterous singing as they stumbled along. The two men held each other up, arms around each others shoulders, lurching against the filthy brick walls from side to side down the alleyway. One man was tall and slim, unshaven and slovenly. He had greasy black hair that hung to his shoulders in ribbons. He was dressed in a filthy pair of jeans that hung loosely on his hips. His black Harley-Davidson T-shirt was stained with the remnants of numerous meals. The other man was fat with a few strands of grey hair falling over his balding forehead. He was wearing an over-sized ‘Columbo'-style raincoat that was dirty and smelly. Neither man looked very respectable but, heh, who was I to be picky? They were probably headed to take a leak in a private corner of the alley, choosing not to visit the pub's filthy, overcrowded john. It was a bad decision and it was only their bit of bad luck that they happened to come this way instead."
Review: The story is simple, yet catches the heart. Diane is a ‘good' character, at least by vampire standards. The other characters in the novel, Diane's maker, Felix, and Sean (the love interest) are not without their flaws, but also portray good quality characteristics as well. The story is not totally gruesome, as with some vampire novels, but is more of a story of Diane coming of age as a vampire. By coming into contact with a more human world, and Sean, she learns more of what being a vampire means…and what it can come to mean for her future. It is a good story, with tender moments and some exciting scenes as well. The story is let a little open-ended at the end, preparing for an upcoming sequel.
If you like teen vampire romance books like Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, you may be interested in this one.
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