An Unattractive Vampire
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February 29, 2016
This witty debut imagines what might happen if the repulsive and monstrous vampires of old were brought into the contemporary milieu of glamorous and heroic vampires, with entertaining results. Centuries-old Yulric Bile wakes after 300 years to find his kind are no longer reviled and hunted, but rather celebrated, notably through the television show The Phantom Vampire Mysteries, created by and starring actual vampires. The show's intensely devoted fan base includes a current occupant of Yulric's home, 22-year-old Amanda Linske, who has been caring for her brother, precocious eight-year-old Simon, since their parents died. The show is one of her few refuges from her difficult life. When an esteemed Phantom Vampire Mysteries producer learns of Yulric's awakening, Amanda, Simon, and Yulric become unlikely allies in a showdown between old and new. It takes several chapters for the connections among the various elements to become clear, but once they do, the pages fly by. Engagingly complex characters and wry humor will keep readers coming back for more.
March 15, 2016
Waking after centuries underground, vampire Yuric Bile is out of step with contemporary life, not to mention the modern undead. He realizes that today's vampires are young and beautiful and hidden in plain sight on television shows such as The Phantom Vampire Mysteries. With the help of human Amanda and her eight-year-old brother Simon, Yuric is determined to track down these telegenic beings and show them how a real beast behaves. VERDICT This funny take on the vampire genre offers plenty of digs at the Twilight-inspired trend of vampires as cuddly love interests. This book was written by means of Inkshares, a crowd-sourced publisher through which users can preorder a pitched book and support its release. Popular sf/fantasy site Sword & Laser collaborated with the service as part of its contest to build a collection of promising first novels such as McDoniel's.--MM
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