Jeremy’s Kiss
Natalie Stringer is fresh out of the Air Force, and ready to continue her college education at the University of Omaha.
Jeremy is rich, bored, and taking classes to engage his mind.
They meet, fall in love, and then…
Natalie’s
world, and all she believes, is shaken to its core. For her beloved
Jeremy is a vampire, part of a huge, international society of mythical
beings. Not only is he something that Natalie thought was the stuff of
fiction, there is a whole sub-world that hides itself from mortals.
Now
that she knows, Jeremy is in trouble. He could be killed for telling
her. Especially since Jeremy is being followed and watched by someone
with her own agenda.
Natalie
struggles to continue on as if nothing has changed, immersing herself,
and eventually Jeremy, in a cold-case murder file that was assigned to
her in one of her classes. It is while investigating this case that
Natalie is fatally shot, and Jeremy has no choice but to turn her into a
vampire.
Then,
the unspeakable happens, and Natalie must learn the ways of vampire
society quickly, as well as find a murderer, before she herself becomes a
victim of Jeremy’s unknown enemy.
This
book is actually a number of storylines interwoven into one seamless
novel. There are a couple of backstories, the current narrative, and a
surprising twist of events further on. There were times when I couldn’t
put the book down. The writing style, at the appropriate times, was
gritty and emotionless, detached, as it were—portions of the book had to
do with a girl’s life as a prostitute, and the lack of personal
involvement in the writing style really reflected how someone might
distance themselves from such horrific abuse.
Yet
he also wrote tenderly, so much so that I could actually see a vampire
as a sympathetic character. And that is not easy to do.
If
this book were to be given a deep editing--taking out the non-sequiturs
(i.e., someone sitting on a couch and then standing beside it without
any action written to portray the motion), tightening up the sentence
structure, and correcting the punctuation, I would be sure to give it a
four or five star rating.
Kathy Ree
Stars: 3 ½ with a very serious chance at 4 ½ or 5
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