Eternal (Clare's Point) [Paperback]

V.K. Forrest (Author)

Book Description

Series: Clare's Point | Publication Date: December 1, 2007

FBI agent Fia Kahill has just learned her cousin Bobby McCathal is dead. His body is found burned, and his head and hands are missing - the unmistakable calling card of a vampire slayer. When more vampires' corpses surface, Fia knows it's only a matter of time before the killer catches up to her. But that's not her only worry. She's been assigned to work with FBI agent Glen Duncan who is the spitting image of Ian, the man she once loved - and the man who betrayed her...Four hundred years ago, Ian used his relationship with Fia to infiltrate the clan and kill as many of them as he could. Fia promised herself she would never make the mistake of loving a human again. With the murders in Clare Point escalating, Fia has no choice but to trust Glen even as her promise is becoming more difficult to keep. Fia wants Glen like no other man she's ever desired - and before she knows what's happening, she is deeply immersed in a forbidden love affair. But this time the consequences could be far graver than Fia ever could have imagined. For a killer has her in his sights as his next deadly victim...

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Kensington (December 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0758217161
• ISBN-13: 978-0758217165
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,890,281 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Vampire FBI Agent nearly loses her head, December 7, 2007

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Helen Hancox "Auntie Helen" (Essex, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eternal (Clare's Point) (Paperback)

This is the first in a series based on a community of vampires who live at Clare Point, Delaware, trying to keep their existence secret from humans having fled vampire hunters in Europe four hundred years before. The Kahill clan, the inhabitants of the village, carry out their own kind of justice on various criminals but we don't learn very much about that. The main hook of the story is FBI agent Fia Kahill who is investigating one murder in Philadelphia when she's called to investigate a beheading in her home town of Clare Point.

When Fia arrives at Clare Point she discovers another FBI Agent from the Baltimore office is also assigned to the case. Initially suspicious of Agent Glen Duncan as he resembles her former evil lover, Ian Duncan, she soon finds that Glen is rather different. However, with another old lover, Joseph, causing her problems and more of the Clare Point vampires being separated from their heads Fia doesn't know what to do and how to solve the crime in her village.

The pacing was a little off with the story dragging through quite a large proportion of this book. The explanation of the vampire world was drip-fed to the reader which made it more interesting but also left me with quite a few questions as to how their lifecycles actually worked. The heroine, Fia, wasn't a particularly sympathetic character whose interactions with other people were usually cold and uninformative. I wasn't entirely sure how she had got her job with the FBI as she didn't seem particularly skilled or diligent in the work.

There were several plot threads in the story that weren't completed or were otherwise unsatisfactory. The past relationship with Joseph seemed to be looming large but then all that suddenly subsided; the relationship with Glen was never fully realised and the final scene where the vampire killer is confronted all seemed rather quick and easy. There were several side characters, such as Arlen, about whom there is presumably more to learn - I imagine these characters will be explored more in future books but it left this book feeling rather unfinished and disappointing.

The writing style was good, apart from the pacing issues, and the description of the strange town of Clare Point with its unusual inhabitants, and how they seemed to Glen, was well realised. However the overall story was rather a disappointment because the murder plot didn't feel central enough, nor did the romance, and the reader was left with rather a lot of filler text.

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice Start to a New Series, January 26, 2008

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pammur (San Jose, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Eternal (Clare's Point) (Paperback)

I liked this book. It had a slightly different slant to vampires and how they lived and died. I liked how the romance between the two FBI agents progressed and am hoping to hear more of them in the following books. I felt that Fia was able to come to a resolution about the past relationships in her life and move forward. The ending was a surprise, I hadn't expected the killer to be who it was so that was a nice twist.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it!, January 30, 2010

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S. Motley "Vamp Lover" (Concord, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eternal (Clare Point 1) (Paperback)

I loved this whole series of books. I just wish there were more! Just the right mix of Vamp, romance and suspense to make them "can't put it down" books!