Teeth

The Forever Show #2

by Marcus Damanda

A kid, a cop, and a girl with terrible powers ...

It starts with the death of two little girls, and for the quiet suburb of Fairview, Virginia, the weekend is only just beginning. It's the winter solstice. The Damworths, a traveling gang of young killers, are in town, and they're here to party. But even their leader is unprepared for his youngest recruit to do the one thing that Damworths never fall in love. In TEETH, a new author brings three unlikely characters together to awaken an evil as old as Cain--and to escort you through a night so long, you may never think to see the day again.

275 pages, Paperback

First published June 26, 2007

About the author

Writer, teacher, world's best uncle, adoptive dad to Shazam the cat, I am the gatekeeper to your nightmares and dreams, weaver of tales fantastic and unimaginable ... or some stuff like that.

Reviews

[Patrick D'Orazio · Rating 5 out of 5]

I picked up this book several months ago, interested in reading it as it stared at me from up on my shelf of "to do" reading ever since. I finally got around to it and am very glad I did. I do not read a huge amount of Vampire fiction. Well, I guess that depends on one's perspective, perhaps, as I have read several stories throughout my adult life but it has never been a staple of my reading diet. Part of that, I suppose, is the plush, Harlequinish type novels that are out there--longing, lust, and monsters with a genteel nature. I enjoyed the movie 30 Days of Night for the simple fact that the Vampires were truly monsters, not icons of lust and power that everyone envies or desires to be with. I do respect the mysterious allure and power associated with Vampires but I have grown weary of the soft or hardcore porn take that some authors like Laurell K. Hamilton have taken in their vampire based novels.
Teeth does not play nice with its Vampire archvillains. These folks are not sweet, mornful souls that you almost feel sorry for. They are brutal, vicious killers, using all their supernatural powers to plow through as many victims as they need both to sate their hunger and to have a wickedly good time. Certainly there is a aura of power and along with that incredible desire but we are never subjected to the wimpy vamps whose tormented souls get boring, fast.
Our main character, Nicolas, is an outcast teen who struggles with everyone around him--his classmates, his parents, and even himself. When the Damworths, a traveling band of vamps, converge on his small town and start wreaking havoc, Nicolas is sucked up into the whirlwind of their power and carnage. I liked the character and while I could not completely identify with his sense of being locked out of everything normal in life, the author did a great job of pulling us into his world, his tortured existense that gave the character a compelling sense of realism.
I found this author's take on vampires to be compelling as well. They are raw, brutal, and nearly unstoppable. The author does not relent, only allowing a slight glimmer of their former humanity to shine through but never allowing it to cripple them in anyway. Even if one of them can still experience love, it does not stand in the way of the destruction they unleash. There is no mercy here, no remorse or regret.
A fast paced, exciting read that made me appreciate vampires all over again.

I look forward to the sequel, which there most certainly will be based on the ending of this story. For a first time novelist, Marcus Damanda has done a outstanding job in scribing this tale.

[Kevin Kentley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Outstanding

Marcus Damanda has done it again ! Love this book. I will read everything that he writes. Highly recommended stuff !