The Hunted
(category: fantasy, romance)book 2 of A vampire huntress legend by
L.A. (Leslie Esdaile) Banks
published by St Martins Press in 2004, read in August 2009Agamedes' rating: 7 out of 10
Agamedes' opinion:
An over-the-top, hip hop, Latino & African American, vampire novel... at least, that’s what I thought... I was more than half way through when I thought, hang on, no-one has died yet! And I realised: this is Twilight with heavy sex instead of heavy sighs. For example: The hero -- a vampire -- and the heroine -- a vampire killer -- have sex for almost twenty pages. Then she is too exhausted to kill and he is too exhausted to defend himself. Good grief :-) Likeable characters who spend a lot of time worried that their love for each other is doomed due to “cultural” differences. Oh, and there’s also the great bit where the hero is deeply affected by the lyrics of Get Low (sung by Lil Joe but attributed in the book to Choppa Style): Ya skit skit, mo’fucker, Yaw skit skit, got’damn (sic). I mean, how much more relevant could a song be?!
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