The storytelling is clear, and her writing style is sparse, securing only a minimum of words which allow the reader to visualize our protagonists' environs and motivations. The subject matter is *, but the story itself is very engaging. The narration ...  Read More

At the beginning, the reader joins shori as she is recovering from an attack that gives her amnesia. Shori and her band of humans form a family who are loyal and protective of each other.

Her instinct leads her to a deer that she captures and eats raw. She gradually recovers her physical abilities, but the amnesia remains. She has to relearn how to be what she is and simultaneously save those who saved her.

At this point in the book i was flabbergasted and then creeped out. This is why i can appreciate a book like fledging, a book that can deftly handle these and other issues with insight and nuance while unequivocally taking a stance.

A 53-year-old vampire bites two adult males and they become * attracted to her. But this book is just a * fantasy.

The more i think about it, the more it sickens me. I was sickened from these scenes.

This book reads like the beginning of a series, but that isn't enough of an excuse to justify the endless exposition and redundancy.

The writing style is starchy and stilted. The plot is hum-drum. The writing is nothing but amateurish.

The story itself is similar to anne rice’s vampire a lot of navel-gazing covens of vampires. Good in between the attempts at romance, but the emphasis on the vampire protagonist being 50 with the body of a 10 year old girl is pretty disturbing.