Book Review: Vaempires: Revolution: The Evolutionary War by Thomas Winship

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In the future, humans trigger a nuclear winter that lastsfor hundreds of years. Water levels rise. The shape of the world changes. Whenthe world recovers, vampires emerge from the darkness. For a millennium, humansand vampires fight for supremacy... until synthetic human blood is created,ushering in a period of peace and prosperity. 


And the world changes yet again. Vampires begin morphing into væmpires,warm-blooded creatures with an insatiable hunger for cold vampire blood. Thereis no rhyme or reason as to who morphs--male or female, old or young, from oneend of the world to another--no vampire is safe. And no human is safe, either,because these væmpires aren't interested in coexistence. They want threethings: the eradication of humanity, the enslavement of vampires, and theirascension as the dominant species on the planet. 
It is the morning of Princess Cassandra's sixteenth birthday. With the world'sattention focused on the heir to the vampire throne, væmpires revolt. In theirinitial attack, they kill the vampire and human leaders and take over thecapital. As Cassandra, her boyfriend, Daniel, and the rest of the world fightfor survival, væmpires unleash their secret weapons.

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REVIEW:
With a strange twist, and a creative imagination, ThomasWinship has taken the vampire and turned it into his own creature.
The story starts with an action sequence and is nonstopaction through the rest of the book. Væmpires opens with a war being waged onthe capital of what is left of the world. Daniel, a fifteen year-old vampire,and the son of the captain of the guard, finds himself amongst a battle for hislife against an even more terrifying group of vampires referred to as væmpires.With most of the royal family dead, he must try to rescue one of the few survivorsof the family – Princess Cassandra.
Væmpires used to be regular vampires, but evolution has puta change to that. These vampires are warm-blooded, their hearts beat, they arestronger, have grown an extra set of thumbs, and their humanity is slowlyslipping back to an animal instinct of survival. They have been shunned by thehumans and vampire race. Vielyn, a former vampire, and former friend of theroyal family states it best:
FROM THE BOOK:"Vampires – our formerpeople – rejected us. The world at large ignored us. The medical communityfailed us. The government abandoned us. What else was left but to forge our ownpath?"
Vampires are able to survive on a synthetic blood, and havegain a peaceful resolution with humans. The synth-blood allows them to walk inthe daylight, and it quenches there never ending thirst for human blood. But væmpiresare unable to produce the synthetic dead blood of a vampire, and with thefeeling of being dejected by their own people, and uprising has been boilingbelow the surface.
Now the hunters have become the hunted, and vampires arediscovering that væmpires are more powerful that what they appear.
Væmpires was extremely original and inventive. It took anapocalyptic world, added vampires, some X-men-like mutants, and added somefuturist sci-fi elements. I know there are a lot of people that still liketheir old-school vampires, with the sunlight and holy relics, but I certainly likingthese new and improved vampires that have been emerging. It's time for thevampire to evolve into something more terrifying, and I can't wait to see thesequel to this book.

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