<DIV>"Horror has never been so poetically exquisite before; move over Anne Rice for Nancy Kilpatrick" --Robert W. Walker, author of Basic Instinct</div>
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About the Author
<DIV>Nancy Kilpatrick is an internationally renowned, award-winning author of thirty books, including seventeen novels, five collections of short stories, and has edited eight anthologies. Her works are acclaimed in the genres of dark fantasy, horror, fantasy, and mystery. She was born in the United States and now lives in Montreal, Canada.</div>
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5.0 out of 5 starsKilpatrick’s imagination knows no bounds!
Reviewed in Canada on 14 July 2020
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Book three starts out in Germany and features Karl, who has appeared in the other books. He is the most intellectual of the vampires who, through science, struggles to learn what the ongoing lethal threat to the vampire community is about, all while desperate to find out what happened to Gerlinde, his long-time love. There are other fascinating element here which I won’t mention, since I do not want to give any of the enticing plots twists away! Kilpatrick really knows how to spin a unique story into a riveting novel series.
I started out with a paperback copy of Vol. 3 (of 4) in this series of vampire stories by Nancy Kilpatrick. I picked it up in a grocery store for 99 cents and took it with me to Mexico. After reading vol. 3, I knew I wouldn't be able to find the other volumes in the series easily so purchased them for my Kindle Fire. Each volume describes in detail the different members of a group of vampires who have found each other despite their nature to be solitary souls. They form a connected, rather bizarre group that is protective of each other. There are parts in the books that are quite sexually graphic...I have not read the Twilight series so don't know how this compares. As a Canadian, I was interested in reading these books by a CDN female writer and because they partly based in Montreal. I did re-read vol. 3 in after reading Vol. 1 and 2 and it made more sense in series. These were "beach" reads...not intended to be read for their great literary value. They were entertaining and kept me interested...but became almost too repetitive over the series so I was glad that Kilpatrick stopped at Vol. 4. Read for entertainment only...the series did entertain.
Reviewed in the United States on 12 September 2016
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Once of my favorite books is the third in this series. This one was good but felt a bit different. Alot going on in this book, good urban mystery. The series as a whole is a good one too so it you like vampire books you should try it, it is infact different.