Daughters of the Moon

by Joseph Curtin

From the blood-soaked wails of a 17th-century European castle to the glittering excess of 70s rock-and-roll glamour, a legendary vampire stalks her prey.

Genres: Vampires, Horror, Fiction

381 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2000

About the author

Joseph Curtin lives in a small suburb on the outskirts of Chicago with his wife Karen, their daughters, Toni Marie and Jodi Lauren, and Sam the yellow lab. Joe had worked as a graphic artist, freelance illustrator, substitute teacher and a dockhand, upon graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1982. A lifelong horror buff, Joe made a decision to shelve his artwork and write the book that had been brewing inside him for years after winning a nationwide intercollegiate essay contest. Three years and six drafts later Daughters of the Moon was published. An active member of the Horror Writers Association, Joe is currently working on his second novel.

Reviews

[Daelith]

56 pages into this and can tell I'm not going to like this book. Just going to stop now and pick something else from the TBR pile that will hold my attention.

[Latonia · Rating 5 out of 5]

an amazing read!

[Bradley Noell · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was interesting. It started out jumping all over the place and I was a little concerned about finding any cohesion within the story, but as the author went on, the story began to fill out and I began to see what he was going for. This is like a horror movie that kills the person we think is going to be the protagonist early on and then refuses to let you know who the new main character is. I think that I liked that. It was confusing and frustrating at first, but the more that I read, the more I started to have fun with it, and it made for a hell of an ending. Usually I can see where these kinds of stories are going but by the end of this one I honestly didn't know how things were going to turn out or even what we were going for anymore. For a first novel, this is pretty impressive.

[Brandy · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not my typical read, but it was passed along from someone who likes some of the same stuff I do. I wouldn't say it was any good, other than being really briskly paced, this was a simplistic & formulaic bit of typical vampire mythos.

[C. D. Brinker · Rating 2 out of 5]

One of these days someone will write the legend of Countess Elizabeth Bathory without cliched vampiric tales.