Blood And Sunlight: A Maryland Vampire Story (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
Blood and Sunlight: A Maryland Vampire Story is one of my two favorite vampire novels on my kindle. This is actually the first vampire novel I added because I fell in love with the cover. I wanted to post a review so that if you haven't read this book, you can do so before the second title Blood and Moonlight is released in June-2011.I'll tell you why I love this book before giving a brief summary. First of all, vampire e-books are overdone, and most of them are just like the one before it. This one isn't, it is a darker series and Wasserman is simply put-a great story-teller. There is something about his writing that makes it impossible not to enjoy this book.Blood and Sunlight brings you into twenty-three year old, college drop out Melanie's haunting and disturbing world. Her life isn't that great anyway when she learns the truth about vampires...but not in the way you'd expect. After a whirlwind of possible evil threatens to wash away Melanie's last hopes to hang onto her fairytales...she finds salvation in a very unlikely place. I am a huge fan of good vampire fiction, with Blood and Sunlight I really got more than I anticipated, because it wasn't good it was absolutely excellent! Melanie comes of as a person used to going along with whatever her boyfriends want. She is a twenty three year old college drop out that often feels much older than she really is. She really doesn't like to be alone, so she is never without a boyfriend and frankly the ones she chooses well, aren't actually the cream of the crop, her current boyfriend Bryan, who likes to be called Lucian, is into vampires,wearing the dark clothes,powdering his skin to make it pale, dying his hair black, and for a while even wearing fake,plastic vampire teeth. To appease Bryan she starts wearing dark clothes, and starts using the endless supply of drugs Bryan's buddy Carl always had. She feels like Bryan treats her very well, and that she hasn't really been fair to him, not wanting to read the books he recommends. Yeah well, I felt like she was to good to him, going along with his crazy antics, I mean heck she doesn't even believe in Vampires but is willing to go along with him, when to me he seemed often acted very juvenile!One night while they are out hanging out in the tunnels under the ruins of a place called Hell House Carl and Bryan are attacked by what appears to be a young girl, when Melanie runs to get help she encounters man named Keenan who promises to help, she passes out and when she comes to she is inside an old caretakers trailer and she smells smoke. She meets Lucas who turns out to be a vampire slayer. When the police start to arrive he tells her they need to leave, actually the police chief, who covers up alot of what Lucas does. Can she figure out what has happened to her boyfriend Bryan, and Carl? What about Lucas, does he really think there are vampires? One thing for sure things are getting really weird, and Melanie knows she doesn't want to be alone.Is it really possible that there could be vampire on the loose in Ellicott City? I found the author did a great job with the characters, I did want to shake Melanie a couple of times for going along with her other peoples crazy antics, but honestly that is typical for the person she was. You could easily imagine the characters, especially Keenan and the loneliness that he must have felt, and the struggles he had lived thru, wanting to protect Melanie making it easier for her. The story throws us several twists making this a very fast paced story, and once I hit the ending well, it wasn't what was expected.All I can say is I certainly hope that the author is working on a sequel because I for one didn't want this story to end, I hope Keenan and Melanie's story has just begun!On a scale of one to five I would give this book a six its just that good!Book reviewed for Readers Favorite.
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Hey, Ellicott City, Maryland. That's right down the road a piece.
—cla
