“I didn’t expect beauty. I didn’t expect magic. I didn’t
expect love,” the Vampire Girl book trailer says. I didn’t expect any of that
and to be honest, I didn’t really expect that good a book. (And you know what I
means—some of the best-selling vampire books out there are barely readable.)
But Vampire Girl by Karpov Kinrade (a husband/wife writing team) kept coming up
on my “Also Purchased” and “Recommended” reading lists so I finally took the
hint and bought the book.
And wow. Just … wow.
Vampire Girl is a great read. The
writers have given us a wonderfully relatable heroine, a blue collar girl who
dreams of being a lawyer and works in a diner and worries about paying the
bills. She lives in Portland, Oregon and her life is filled with friends,
including her best friend, a transwoman whose boyfriend has a bit of the second
sight. The book is written in a cinematic style with cliff-hangers ending each
chapter and mysteries that pull us through to the next bit.
