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Kiss Me Kill Me

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take it to the beach and watch out for who is on the blanket next to you! great story of love/revenge/love.....

Michael Karol gives new meaning to the concept of eternal love. Take this book to the beach, to bed, on a plane, or read it aloud to your mate or date. It's a sexy, well constructed page-turner.

This may look like a gay-themed vampire story but is not.
It is about human relationships and inabilities: our inability to know what we want, to find it when we finally get to know, to adjust to the compromise we chose to make when giving up.

It is a book about a life of second best choices, second best if we are lucky because they sometimes turn out to be 15th best if not worse.

This is why this novel is unbelievably sad. Mr Karol skills are enough to give us a perfectly realistic picture of this silent and very personal human tragedy, not enough to make more than just that.

The side kick, the vampirism, is decidedly good instead: original, and that is saying a lot these days.
Vampires here are really a different species, gradually detaching themselves from this former humanity. And they are beasts. Strong, clever predators. Scary.
No romantic nonsense about the vampires being good guys and way beyond Anita Blake series in depicting the disgust humans feel when confronted with something so alien.

This is funny after all. I am guessing of course, but I am sure the author wanted to give us a story about human feelings framed in a vampire context to make it appealing. Well, while the human part is no more than proficient, the vampire frame is excellent, sexy, dark and scary, really so.