With "Vampire Nocturne," Lorelei Bell continues her Sabrina Strong series with an irresistable combination of drama, fast-paced action, love, passion, heartache, hope, devastation, lust and longing, new friends, new adventures, and shocking revelations. In this exciting third installment, Sabrina has turned into a magical creature, not just a clairvoyant, with a ring that thwarts a vampire's thrall. Sabrina learns how to travel the ley lines, and she travels to another world called "Beyond the Black Veil," a world where vampires outnumber humans ten to one, and where humans are merely blood donors and objects of their sexual desire. Here she encounters Drakulya, the real-life Dracula, a.k.a. "The Impaler," who has managed to become a vampire living in this strange world, and who rules as King. The Dagger of Delphi becomes Sabrina's weapon of choice. And what becomes of Dante Badheart, whose spirit essences are contained in the stone he gave her when last he spoke to her from the dead, is another mystery that intrigues her.
I have continued with this series because I like the storyline. I have found Sabrina however to be annoying from book 1. In book 1 she was an air head. It drove me crazy when she repeated what was told to her word for word but phrased it as a question. She has loose morals & this gets worse with each book. I'm surprised that a female is writing these books. I'm pretty sure that when a couple is pronounced man & wife it means that they are married. She checks out every man she sees & has sex with a few. This is within a couple of weeks. She was in love with Dante but they weren't exclusive. No one in these books is exclusive regardless of whether they are married or engaged. She fell in love with Dante after a few days. Their boss tells them to have sex so they do. There is no romance with any of the numerous men she's involved with. She's involved with all of them at the same time & lusts after any man she sets her eyes on.
Also, a pet peeve of mine is when British terminology is used with American characters. I have never heard an American use the term resale shop.
Sabrina's cousin goes missing and S finds a parallel world where it's all Victorian and vampires rule and she meets the original Drakyla.
The best part of this is learning about what happened to Dante who is S's true love soul mate. Their story is probably the best of all of this, although it's bittersweet.
It starts with an odd wedding ceremony with Vasyl, and a huge fight between V and S. Tremayne is trying to get his power back from Ilona and Nicolas. Hobart's around, but not prominent in this one. Sabrina learns how to travel using Ley Lines and it's through this where she finds the parallel world. There's a new love/mating interest in Jett, Drakyla's son, and a new vampire, Drachen.
I'm still not sure what the point of all of this was except to get Sabrina to learn more about her Sibyl powers.
Amazing - this just keeps getting better and better!! Sabrina's search for her niece take her where even the fae cannot go!! Her quick thinking and intelligence continue to help her - while she is trying to fit into different 'roles' and discovers there are no real 'rules' where nothing is what it seems and fiction becomes reality!!! Cannot say more without spoiling it .... Off to book # 4 - no rest for the wicked!!!!
A flipped world with missing persons and Vampires galore. Excellent series with interesting characters and great storyline. There's so much to take in while reading through this book. Very satisfying.