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Thirst

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Perhaps not as erotic as Anne Rice's books are, but it gets pretty good in this well-written book. Sometimes the reading gets confused as every other chapter shifts between the main character before and after she was a vampire. Nonetheless, that adds to the atmosphere. Nothing new in the vampire mythology is added, but overall the book is a good read, worthy of your time. Give it a look.

I am a collector of vampire novels. I found "Thirst" while hunting through the horror section of my bookstore. I have read a few of the reviews of this novel, and I will start by saying everyone has different tastes when it comes to a novel. I have to admit I was very disappointed. I felt that the novel had promise, but then turned into an incest, S&M, orgy "fest."

Cassandra is a struggling poet living in New York. During the day she works as a window dresser, and at night she attends poetry readings. While at a poetry reading she meets Julian, a mysterious and handsome man. There is an instant attraction. Initially Julian seems like a very likeable guy, he starts off very mysterious and romantic, and Cassandra is instantly in love. (He takes her to expensive restaurants, and shows and even on a carriage ride).

Suddenly Julian warns Cassandra that if she continues in their relationship she has to know how he really is. He tells her to think about it and if she wants to continue the relationship to show up at his home in a week. Cassandra is in love, she shows up. At this point, the entire novel turns into S&M, with Cassandra licking Julian's shoes; kneeling at his feet; and being so caught up in their love making that she even allows herself to be tied up constantly, tortured and even branded. And if that's not enough Julian's sister enters the picture and soon its an S&M menage a trois involving incest.

Each chapter, the story jumps back and forth from the present (where Cassandra is on the run from a group called the advocates (executioners who want to kill her because she broke one of the first vampire laws which says that you cannot kill another vampire)), and the past describing her blossoming relationship with Julian. When the novel is in the present we already know she has killed a vampire, we just don't know who, but we also know that neither Julian or his sister is in her present life. I personally found the chapters where Cassandra first met Julian more interesting than the chapters of her present life. Her present life is not all that interesting, and she's not a likeable heroine. She's a killer and you cannot blame the advocates for wanting her dead.

I don't think this story went anywhere. It was just a bunch of S&M, sex, incest, and group sex and then at the last chapter, an ending was thrown in. If you are not into the above listed items (which I am not) then I recommend you try another novel.