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Here is a quick review.
The Dark Heroine: Dinner with a Vampire... is a story where a young girl goes out with her mates for a night on the town in order to drown her sorrows. She sits by the fountain to rest her sore feet, curse at her high heels and pine over the cheating ex boyfriend. In the meantime her mates go get some chips or a kebab around the corner... typical weekend for a girl of her age. Only problem is that whilst sitting there she witnesses something she shouldn't and having drank a fair bit she doesn't quite believe her eyes. She thinks it another weekend where a bunch of pissed up morons have a scrap in Trafalgar Square, it happens. She tries to stay in the shadows and silent so as not to get caught up in it, a bit like when a drunk guy comes up to you at the end of a night swaying all over the place like a drunk Elvis and wants to serenade/seduce you... it never ends well. She soon realises that throats being ripped out, bodies strewn everywhere is not a punch up and that the pale guys drinking the blood are not anaemic! Has her drink been spiked? No... the only spikes are those in the dead men's hands.
She is kidnapped by Vampires! Cool already... right.
Why she was not killed, is not only a confusion to her, but also to the heartless Vamp who just proved that he has no qualms in committing mass murder, in fact he finds it a delightful hobby. A bit like a football hooligan out on the beer with his mates! He has no idea why he didn't just break her neck or drained her but something stopped him. It plays on his mind as he locks her up in his family mansion. Yup, he's rich! He lords his power over her and although she pretends to have balls of steel and a mouth so sharp it puts his fangs to shame, she is still not killed.
Eventually she become a political prisoner as they discover who her father is. Kaspar drives her insane like a boy pulling your pig tails at school, he delights in tormenting her. Throw in the next hot vamp with a heart of gold. We have a triangle. The 'love to hate you' of Kaspar is the exact opposite of the relationship Fabian has with Violet. In the meantime, Kaspar the 'manwhore' is off poking more than his fangs into whatever he can lay his hands on.
Come forward in time and the book has you willing the serial killing, kidnapper, to win her heart and not the smushy guy.... wait is that even rational? This book has given me a medical disorder... Stolkholm Syndrome. (Does this mean I get a week off work?)
Sex plays a big part in this book, as does blood lust... which takes me to the part where 'you' the reader may want him to win her heart, but he doesn't. Yeah he wants to seduce her and drain her blood like every other girl with tits and a pulse (pulse optional), but he doesn't give a flying 'hoo har' about her. Lust is a big part of being a vamp. The countless sleepless nights of him proving that, noisily, through the bedroom walls with various conquests only annoy Violet even more to the point where she sets about planning to sabotage his 'lust life'.
The book has politics, a history, dimensions, ballroom dancing, costumes, sex, blood, cars, and characters galore who are each as individual as the next. You get to hear the inner dialogue of the character all the time, dependant on which point of view the writer is using. There are not many writers who like to chop and change POV for their characters, as writing in first and second can be confusing for reader. As such, a writer may naturally back away and stick to one tried and tested method. However, the author of this novel achieves the switch quite successfully, yes there was the odd moment where I had to stop and take my bearings, as the switch was too quick for me to realise, but they were few and far between. It may also have been my own fault for trying to race ahead to the next 'face off' between the characters.
You slip between 'Violet' and 'Kaspar' view point, from chapter to chapter quite easily, it gives the story a wider scope and there is also a reason for this writing choice towards the end of the book. How many novels are written where an author receives a request from readers to give the male perspective? Loads! If you are a looking for escapism into a book that is fun, young adult and fiction, then this is a good choice.
I've only given you a taster of what the book contains in the first few chapters. The author is very descriptive, sometimes overly, but nothing I couldn't speed read through. I got sick of Kaspar calling Violet 'girly' I would have ripped my own throat open just to escape that if I were his hostage, but young adults will love that term of endearment.
I would recommend this book for mature teens and up, as even grown women like me who just want to escape into a book and have a good perv at a vamp will love it. The author may be young but her writing is not. Well done Girly. (Damn... get out of my mind Kaspar... did I mention they are physic?)
If I could match a song to this book....
It's just perfect!Don't think.. Read it!It's worth it:)
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