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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Great idea, poorly done,
This review is from: Blood Moon (Blood Moon, Book 1) (Mass Market Paperback)
Regency couple cursed with vampirism journeys to mysterious land to find a cure - what a great plot! And what horrible execution. I've seldom come across such one-dimensional characters. The husband, John, is so bland he might as well be named "Upright Moral Hero." The wife, Cassandra, is so stupid that, although she's perfectly aware of how much danger they're in, she makes a habit of keeping vital information from her husband to prevent him from worrying. I never felt like these characters even knew each other that well, let alone were passionately in love.
As far as the writing goes, I have never wanted so much for an author to have picked up a thesaurus. Constant mentions of "lady-wife" and "tiny hands" are irritating enough (just how tiny can this grown woman's hands be, anyway?) but the worst offense is the word "frock." Here's a little example of how bad it gets: "She had changed her soiled frock and torn petticoat, choosing a white sprigged muslin morning dress sprinkled with dainty roses from among her frocks he had repurchased at the open market, and was tugging it into place. How lovely she was in that frock." And that's just half of one paragraph. This is constant, throughout the book, the same words repeated over and over. It's tough to get through. Although the worst part for me is the scene in which Cassandra transforms into an animal and her husband muses that he finds her even more sexy that way. Um, ew. (By the way, this is not a spoiler; they change into animals in the first chapter.) If you're looking for a vampire romance with multidimensional characters and sparkling writing, check out Kresley Cole's hot, funny "Immortals After Dark" series or Nora Roberts's incomparable Circle trilogy.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
BORING,
By Fiona "Reader" (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blood Moon (Blood Moon, Book 1) (Mass Market Paperback)
Very slow read. Made me long for better Vampire books like Anne Rices' series. It lacked intimacy and believability. The story unfolded slowly with a build to nothing very climactic. I bought but don't know if I will read the sequels. Disappointing.
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Starts in the middle.,
By Huntress Reviews (United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Blood Moon (Blood Moon, Book 1) (Mass Market Paperback)
All of Jon Hyde-White's hopes and dreams were shattered when he and the woman he loves became infected with vampirism. Once, he dreamed of being a holy man, now the church considers him unholy, despite the fact that unlike the conventional vampire, he can freely enter consecrated ground. Because for both him and for Cassandra, his lady love, life is unbearable, they decide to follow a wise man's offer of hope, that in Moldavia there might be a cure. Neither is a full vampire, merely infected, so perhaps there is a chance. Yet, when they reach foreign soil, all the couple finds is that they are caught between evil vampires and vampire hunters. Their sole ally is a centuries old gypsy vampire who does know of a way to change them so that evil is not predominant. They just have to survive and stay out of the hands of their maker long enough to try the method.
**** Though this is a first book in a trilogy, the opening pages felt as if you were entering the story some time after the beginning. That aside, Ms. Thompson has reinvented vampirism in a most imaginative way. The idea that there are differnet levels of the infection, as it is called here, is intriguing, as is the notion that a rite could allow vampires who are not totally gone over to evil to adapt to society better. **** Reviewed by Dr. Phil Rhyne for Huntress Reviews.
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