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Winter Break: Shooting Stars 4
After the battle on October’s blue moon, the vampire coven appeared to be in disarray and too weak to reform anytime soon. In December, the fall semester had ended, and Chuck and Kelsey thought they would have a peaceful three-week winter break. They were wrong on both counts. First, Dafydd, prince of the elfin kingdom in Faerie returns to claim Kelsey as his bride. Then, the vampires learn that Kelsey’s mother had stolen a Moon Ring—a powerful and venerated artifact from world of Vampire—and are dead-set on getting it back. Will Chuck be able to help Kelsey protect the moon ring, avoid the persistent elfin prince, and fight off the vampires who have brought in new blood to reform their coven, all before he has to move with his family back to Washington State? Find out in this fourth book of the Shooting Stars Series.
293 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 4, 2020
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March 1, 2021
The story gets vamped up
A great continuation to the journeys of Chuck and Kelsey. They’ve had to do a lot of growing up this time around. Since the timeframe of this book takes place over an American winter break, a too short of a holiday break when I was in school, it delves a lot more into fleshing out the desires and motivations of its characters. Emotionally intelligent readers will almost feel empathy for some of the bad guys and abject disdain at the pompous actions of some of the “good guys.”
This part of the series dives deeper into Vampire lore. The author really did his homework as he was really captured the borderline lusty intimacy mixed with carnivorous violence that is vampire feeding without making it explicitly sexual or gory. Giving a glimpse of more adult themes without spoiling the reader, keeping it YA appropriate.
All in all a good read. I was pleasantly surprised to not see it suffer from middle book syndrome as it sets up future events without feeling like it’s only there to help set up future events. It’s not quite high noon yet at the corral, but the posse is definitely not just sipping sarsaparilla in the saloon.
A great continuation to the journeys of Chuck and Kelsey. They’ve had to do a lot of growing up this time around. Since the timeframe of this book takes place over an American winter break, a too short of a holiday break when I was in school, it delves a lot more into fleshing out the desires and motivations of its characters. Emotionally intelligent readers will almost feel empathy for some of the bad guys and abject disdain at the pompous actions of some of the “good guys.”
This part of the series dives deeper into Vampire lore. The author really did his homework as he was really captured the borderline lusty intimacy mixed with carnivorous violence that is vampire feeding without making it explicitly sexual or gory. Giving a glimpse of more adult themes without spoiling the reader, keeping it YA appropriate.
All in all a good read. I was pleasantly surprised to not see it suffer from middle book syndrome as it sets up future events without feeling like it’s only there to help set up future events. It’s not quite high noon yet at the corral, but the posse is definitely not just sipping sarsaparilla in the saloon.
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