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Love Unfortunate (A Dark Love Story)

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Wow! Completely unexpected ending! Beautifully written short story. Can't wait to read more Claudia. Highly recommended. On to the next one...

Love Unfortunate is a sorrowful, haunting tale about the unconventional love between a maniacal vampire and his tortured wife. I loved every word. To say anymore would give away the unexpected ending. I'd recommend reading this short story if you enjoy a more "realistic" vampire love story, one with despair and cruelty. No sparkly vampires here!

Claudia D. Christian has such a lush writing style. Her writing is very dark, but decadent. It's mystery and poetry. You have to pay attention to unravel the layers of meaning, and you'll still likely leave threads lying about.

Claudia D. Christian has such a lush writing style. Her writing is very dark, but decadent. It's mystery and poetry. You have to pay attention to unravel the layers of meaning, and you'll still likely leave threads lying about. I loved this novella. It had a very unique and unexpected ending. Very twisted and lovely.

I thought this book was terrific. It was my first CD Christian story and I loved it.

I got caught up in the characters and the story and the twists.

I don't want to reveal anything, but this was a love story and romance filled with darkness, pain, sadness, emotional strife, and drama.. Control means everything. Who has it, and when, decides destiny.

Read this book.

"You keep me here, locked away, not knowing I do the same to you. So which of us is the monster?"

Ordinarily, I don't read romances and Love Unfortunate is most definitely a romance, but a truly twisted one. There is a brilliant lushness to Claudia D. Christian`s language and a constant subtextual tension that pulls you through this desperate tale with an almost calculated cruelty. You just know it isn't going to end well, but getting there is going to be delicious from start to finish.

There is also a dreamlike quality to the way Christian presents time to her readers, coaxing them into the same rhythm as her characters who, being outside the natural world, seem to experience reality one sexually charged, hunger driven, misery laced moment at a time.

It would be correct to call this vampire erotica. It is, but it's more than that. There is a very dark streak of sadomasochism that pervades the mood of the tale without every becoming cliched or theatrical. In the end it is a passionate story of reaching for the unreachable until the muscles tear, and then reaching just that little bit further. You'll never read anything like this.

"You keep me here, locked away, not knowing I do the same to you. So which of us is the monster?"

Ordinarily, I don't read romances and Love Unfortunate is most definitely a romance, but a truly twisted one. There is a brilliant lushness to Christian's language and a subtextual tension that pulls you through this desperate tale with an almost calculated cruelty. You just KNOW it isn't going to end well, but you just know that getting there is going to be delicious from start to finish.

There is also a dreamlike quality to the way Christian presents time to her readers, coaxing them into the same rhythm as her characters who, being outside the natural world, seem to experience reality one sexually charged, hunger driven, misery laced moment at a time.

It would not be correct to call this vampire erotica. It is, but it's more than that. There is a very dark streak of sadomasochism that threads through the mood of the tale without every becoming cliched or theatrical. In the end it is a passionate story of reaching for the unreachable until the muscles tear, and then reaching just that little bit further. You'll never read anything like this.