FREE BOOK ALERT … IN GENERAL, BOOKS ABOUT VAMPIRES AND...
FREE BOOK ALERT … IN GENERAL, BOOKS ABOUT VAMPIRES AND WEREWOLVES make me a little squeamish. They are so bad so often.
I liked this story because it wasn’t the story of the noble lord who becomes a vampire and spends hundreds of years being an emo-serial killer. It was a story of a Luna, a slave in pre-Civil War Mississippi who helps a vampire rediscover his humanity. Seeing the perspective of a slave really made the story. In the middle of the book their are “romantic misunderstandings” that in any other context would make me throw the book at the wall … but in this book, they were very logical. Luna can’t express her feelings because she’s had twenty some years of repressing them. And in that context it is a true survival mechanism, not some gimmick thrown in to draw out the plot. Sometimes I thought Avery got a little too puppy doggish, but that was a minor quibble compared to my enjoyment of the Luna’s POV.
Some of the other reviewers comment that it makes no sense that Luna would talk like a slave and write such an eloquent journal. But I think it’s pretty obvious she wrote the journal MUCH later in her existence, than what we see in the book. To unlearn speech patterns takes a lot longer than a few weeks.
Anyway, definitely buying the sequel. But not until the weekend. I have work to do …
