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The Village - A Vampire to Die For
There’s a new vampire in the village and she’s hungry for more than just blood…
There were stories of vampires in this modern world. Many, many stories of the mythical creatures who drank blood in order to survive. All of them varied in their description of what a vampire was. Many of these fictional vampires seemed weak and afraid, or they were really humans masquerading as something different and therefore cool, and appealing to what people liked to refer to as their dark side.
All of them were wrong. They were way, way off the mark.
Isobel knew this because she was a vampire and those stories couldn’t possibly be true because no one had ever encountered her true nature and escaped to tell any tales ever again. Besides, Isobel affected anyone that she set her sights on and no one had ever really seen her true self. They did what people did so often, they saw what they wanted to see, so Isobel helped them along in that delusional state. She gave them what they wanted and in return she took what she needed.
That may not have been a fair deal, but it certainly worked for her.
The appeal of the life that teems around Isobel is strong, and her desires are not restricted to feeding. She prefers hot meals and she knows the best way to get the blood pumping in her victims, and they know what works even better than she does. It seems this is all that they ever want. There is something incredibly alluring about Isobel, her victims come to her willingly, they come with only one thing on their mind and she indulges them and herself, taking her time before she and her prey are more than ready…
Sex and death are a heady and intoxicating mix, in that moment there is nothing else. Then, for Isobel’s victims, there is nothing more.
Vampire, Isobel, is ancient, enduring and darkly powerful. She creeps up on her victims and insinuates herself in their lives, drawing them along towards their end. Isobel is also a vampire bored of her life, She finds the drudgery of her existence tedious. Too long has she lived in the shadows and followed a routine designed to limit her exposure to the modern world. Not only does she crave blood, she craves the life that surrounds her…
Averse to the risk and the dangers of the hordes of people who fill the planet and cause her constant anxiety, Isobel finds a quiet and secluded village. A place where she can start again, reinvent herself and make a new life in a bid to fill the hole in her life. She hankers after a quiet life with meaning.
She believes she has found it when she finds the sleepy and secluded village of Brokmaster…
…but has she? Is the quiet life really going to work for Isobel?
There were stories of vampires in this modern world. Many, many stories of the mythical creatures who drank blood in order to survive. All of them varied in their description of what a vampire was. Many of these fictional vampires seemed weak and afraid, or they were really humans masquerading as something different and therefore cool, and appealing to what people liked to refer to as their dark side.
All of them were wrong. They were way, way off the mark.
Isobel knew this because she was a vampire and those stories couldn’t possibly be true because no one had ever encountered her true nature and escaped to tell any tales ever again. Besides, Isobel affected anyone that she set her sights on and no one had ever really seen her true self. They did what people did so often, they saw what they wanted to see, so Isobel helped them along in that delusional state. She gave them what they wanted and in return she took what she needed.
That may not have been a fair deal, but it certainly worked for her.
The appeal of the life that teems around Isobel is strong, and her desires are not restricted to feeding. She prefers hot meals and she knows the best way to get the blood pumping in her victims, and they know what works even better than she does. It seems this is all that they ever want. There is something incredibly alluring about Isobel, her victims come to her willingly, they come with only one thing on their mind and she indulges them and herself, taking her time before she and her prey are more than ready…
Sex and death are a heady and intoxicating mix, in that moment there is nothing else. Then, for Isobel’s victims, there is nothing more.
Vampire, Isobel, is ancient, enduring and darkly powerful. She creeps up on her victims and insinuates herself in their lives, drawing them along towards their end. Isobel is also a vampire bored of her life, She finds the drudgery of her existence tedious. Too long has she lived in the shadows and followed a routine designed to limit her exposure to the modern world. Not only does she crave blood, she craves the life that surrounds her…
Averse to the risk and the dangers of the hordes of people who fill the planet and cause her constant anxiety, Isobel finds a quiet and secluded village. A place where she can start again, reinvent herself and make a new life in a bid to fill the hole in her life. She hankers after a quiet life with meaning.
She believes she has found it when she finds the sleepy and secluded village of Brokmaster…
…but has she? Is the quiet life really going to work for Isobel?
305 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 9, 2022
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February 18, 2022
A very disagreeable and at the same time, slow as molasses book. I have never been a fan of vampire stories and decided to give The Village a chance. Bad mistake. Not for me at all, maybe others would like it. Even trying to instill a kind of eroticism in this book, it fails miserably, maybe because none of the characters, not even the vampire, has an iota of eroticism in any of them. And the end was pathetic. I still think the most decent vampire of them all was Dracula.
January 7, 2023
Compelling read
A KU recommended novel picked up on a Facebook add.
Was a good read that kept the pages turning and my interest. I'm a fan of the paranormal genre and this did not disappoint.
Recommended.
A KU recommended novel picked up on a Facebook add.
Was a good read that kept the pages turning and my interest. I'm a fan of the paranormal genre and this did not disappoint.
Recommended.
February 10, 2022
What is a vampire?
There are so many versions of vampires out there that I wasn't certain anymore.
I've liked vampires since I was first terrified by them, but over time I encountered some that disappointed me.
Too many were just people playing the role - that has the potential to be truly frightening, because we are monsters and capable of great evil.
Vampires with allergies I just don't get. They make a show of being immortal and an unstoppable force, but buckle at the smell of a slice of pizza, the sight of religious symbols and they die if their unbeating heart is pierced with a piece of kindling.
The zombie vampires I also don't get. Zombies are ace and they work in a whole other arena. I've shot my share of them in games like Left 4 Dead, but vampires they are not.
However, the ancient Nosferatu does have a place in my vampire worlds. That vampire is elemental and perhaps closer to the true nature of vampires than most. It's just that it's not... very PR friendly is it? Nosferatu is perhaps the parent of the vampires we gravitate towards, a stark warning of the vampire's true nature and what it is destined to become.
Isobel is a vampire trying to make sense of herself and the world that she desperately wants to be a part of. Being different can be a lonely existence and that is made all the more challenging by the span of years she has existed and the huge expanse of time ahead of her.
Isobel has certain attributes that are useful, but take a toll upon her. These attributes and her pressing desires lead to an exploration of the world and of people that is at times hugely pleasurable for her, but the hole in her life remains despite her best efforts to fill it...
There are so many versions of vampires out there that I wasn't certain anymore.
I've liked vampires since I was first terrified by them, but over time I encountered some that disappointed me.
Too many were just people playing the role - that has the potential to be truly frightening, because we are monsters and capable of great evil.
Vampires with allergies I just don't get. They make a show of being immortal and an unstoppable force, but buckle at the smell of a slice of pizza, the sight of religious symbols and they die if their unbeating heart is pierced with a piece of kindling.
The zombie vampires I also don't get. Zombies are ace and they work in a whole other arena. I've shot my share of them in games like Left 4 Dead, but vampires they are not.
However, the ancient Nosferatu does have a place in my vampire worlds. That vampire is elemental and perhaps closer to the true nature of vampires than most. It's just that it's not... very PR friendly is it? Nosferatu is perhaps the parent of the vampires we gravitate towards, a stark warning of the vampire's true nature and what it is destined to become.
Isobel is a vampire trying to make sense of herself and the world that she desperately wants to be a part of. Being different can be a lonely existence and that is made all the more challenging by the span of years she has existed and the huge expanse of time ahead of her.
Isobel has certain attributes that are useful, but take a toll upon her. These attributes and her pressing desires lead to an exploration of the world and of people that is at times hugely pleasurable for her, but the hole in her life remains despite her best efforts to fill it...
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