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The Nightmare Club #9
Eternally Yours
Mercedes Amberson falls for the lead singer in a new band, but she does not realize that Conner Egan is actually a two-hundred-year-old vampire seeking a woman's eternal love.
223 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published February 1, 1994
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Cameron Dokey
52 books944 followersCameron Dokey is an American author living in Seattle, Washington. She has a collection of over 50 old sci-fi and horror films. Cameron was born in the Central Valley of California. Cameron grew up reading classical literature and mythology, perhaps due to her father, Richard, being a teacher of Philosophy, Creative Writing, and Western Literature.
Cameron has one husband and three cats, and is the author of over a dozen young adult novels. Her favorite read is J.R.R. Tolkien's trilogy, "The Lord of the Rings." Her favorite TV show is "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
When she's not writing, Cameron likes to work in the garden and is learning to quilt.
Cameron has one husband and three cats, and is the author of over a dozen young adult novels. Her favorite read is J.R.R. Tolkien's trilogy, "The Lord of the Rings." Her favorite TV show is "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
When she's not writing, Cameron likes to work in the garden and is learning to quilt.
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June 23, 2024
Another reasonably priced online find for The Nightmare Club series.
Dokey is a writer I know is pretty well versed in writing retellings of fairy tales and folk stories but dabble is the paranormal fiction. It is kind of an odd combination in this one...I think I just need to get use to throwing such drama in a YA book.
We start in 1793, the night time before it is about to be dawn on Valentine's Day.
Conner Egan is on the lake of Cooper Hollow, ready to fight a duel over the love of a woman. Her name is Julia McKenzie and she has been promised in marriage to Richard Campbell but she has been keeping Conner as a lover. Richard is a farmer and not a handsome young soldier war hero like Conner but he sees Julia as his property.
Julia accompanies Richard to the duel and tries to convince him to throw the duel but he refuses.
She then rushes over to Conner and says nothing as she flings herself into his arms while Conner tells Julia that he loves her and would do anything to prove it. Julia smiles, parts from Conner and moves out of the way...Richard Campbell is shot dead through the heart within one smooth motion.
The couple head to the Owl's Head Tavern and Inn where Julia proceeds to reveal herself as a vampire and feed on Conner's blood. She was turned into a vampire by a man after swearing her love eternally to him through some weird type of curse and energy transference.
Now Julia will be human and Conner will take her place as a vampire until they day he can find a young woman who can take his place. Once she swears her love and offers proof, he will drink her blood and be free.
Cut to the now of 1993 where we meet our main character.
Mercedes "Mercy" Amberson is a student at the Cooper Riding Academy in Cooper Hollow, there by her own choice. Her parents are rich jet setters who never really wanted a child cramping their style so Mercy lived in Cooper Hollow with her paternal grandmother but now that Grammy Amberson is deceased, they wanted her to attend some fancy New York City school.
They already pay for Mercy to see a therapist who calls them "emotionally unavailable" so why shell out anymore money?
Mercy attends the riding academy even though she is not a very skilled equestrian but she does love horses and the small town that reminds her of the only person who loved her. At school, the other girls think Mercy is a rich snob or the "poor little rich girl" but she has made one good friend.
Her name is Andrea Burgess, a reporter for the paper and there at the academy on a scholarship.
"Andy" is actually a very skilled rider and the opposite of Mercedes with her short, blonde and spiky hair as well as coming from a big family in Virginia while Mercy has no one. She envies the closeness Andy has with her family while the only thing Mercy can do is go and watch old Hollywood movies, wondering what it would be like to have someone love her.
Coming home really late, Mercy passes through the cemetery to get back to the academy and unintentionally sees a young woman meeting a young man in the woods with only his pale, snow blond hair tied back by a red ribbon.
Almost back on school grounds, Mercy soon finds the same girl sitting up against a grave covered in blood about her torn out throat. She imagines that the girl comes back to life and reaches out for Mercy to give her one final warning before death, causing the poor girl to run back in terror.
At the school, the police are called about the body and try to get any description from Mercy but all she can tell them is about his blond hair. For days, Mercy stays in her room because she can't sleep due to nightmares about the girl so she has no energy beside being scarred by the finding of the bloody body.
Andy has to do a news story on the latest band to be playing at The Night Owl Club, Elysian Fields, due to the popularity of just how hot the lead singer is. Since the academy now has a rule that no one can go out alone until the police can find the girl's killer, Mercy tags along with Andy as they go to the club.
All of the band members dress the same and wear their long hair the same but the only one to stand out is handsome and blond lead singer...Conner Egan.
He is back in the town of Cooper Hollow two hundred years later and he intends to make Mercy his latest victim. The girl in the cemetery was just a taste of blood to regain his strength to finally find the young woman to take up his curse and free him.
If only lovelorn Mercedes hadn't stumbled upon them by accident so now Conner knows her presence and goes straight for her that night he sees her out in the front row of the crowd. All of the other girls can't believe he would go for someone like Mercy and are clearly jealous...except for Andrea.
There is something about Conner Egan that she does not like and Andy likes him even less when she sees him taking advantage of her friend. Once Andy realizes that Mercy is changing, she has no real idea just how dangerous Conner is until it may be too late...for both girls.
A true love, friendship counts as love, conquers evil tale set against a vampire trying to be one of those soulful types but not able to control his temper as a veiled substitute for a boyfriend who beats the crap out of his girlfriend. Mercy is the vampire's victim and Andy is more the main character is all you really need to know...
The climactic battle between good and evil does end in spectacular fashion and the actual ending is just saccharine enough to keep you from getting cavities but still not completely satisfying in a way.
Eternally Yours is like sugar free dark chocolate basically if that makes sense to anyone but me so just kind of meh...
Rounded up to 3 stars from 2.5 for GR.
Dokey is a writer I know is pretty well versed in writing retellings of fairy tales and folk stories but dabble is the paranormal fiction. It is kind of an odd combination in this one...I think I just need to get use to throwing such drama in a YA book.
We start in 1793, the night time before it is about to be dawn on Valentine's Day.
Conner Egan is on the lake of Cooper Hollow, ready to fight a duel over the love of a woman. Her name is Julia McKenzie and she has been promised in marriage to Richard Campbell but she has been keeping Conner as a lover. Richard is a farmer and not a handsome young soldier war hero like Conner but he sees Julia as his property.
Julia accompanies Richard to the duel and tries to convince him to throw the duel but he refuses.
She then rushes over to Conner and says nothing as she flings herself into his arms while Conner tells Julia that he loves her and would do anything to prove it. Julia smiles, parts from Conner and moves out of the way...Richard Campbell is shot dead through the heart within one smooth motion.
The couple head to the Owl's Head Tavern and Inn where Julia proceeds to reveal herself as a vampire and feed on Conner's blood. She was turned into a vampire by a man after swearing her love eternally to him through some weird type of curse and energy transference.
Now Julia will be human and Conner will take her place as a vampire until they day he can find a young woman who can take his place. Once she swears her love and offers proof, he will drink her blood and be free.
Cut to the now of 1993 where we meet our main character.
Mercedes "Mercy" Amberson is a student at the Cooper Riding Academy in Cooper Hollow, there by her own choice. Her parents are rich jet setters who never really wanted a child cramping their style so Mercy lived in Cooper Hollow with her paternal grandmother but now that Grammy Amberson is deceased, they wanted her to attend some fancy New York City school.
They already pay for Mercy to see a therapist who calls them "emotionally unavailable" so why shell out anymore money?
Mercy attends the riding academy even though she is not a very skilled equestrian but she does love horses and the small town that reminds her of the only person who loved her. At school, the other girls think Mercy is a rich snob or the "poor little rich girl" but she has made one good friend.
Her name is Andrea Burgess, a reporter for the paper and there at the academy on a scholarship.
"Andy" is actually a very skilled rider and the opposite of Mercedes with her short, blonde and spiky hair as well as coming from a big family in Virginia while Mercy has no one. She envies the closeness Andy has with her family while the only thing Mercy can do is go and watch old Hollywood movies, wondering what it would be like to have someone love her.
Coming home really late, Mercy passes through the cemetery to get back to the academy and unintentionally sees a young woman meeting a young man in the woods with only his pale, snow blond hair tied back by a red ribbon.
Almost back on school grounds, Mercy soon finds the same girl sitting up against a grave covered in blood about her torn out throat. She imagines that the girl comes back to life and reaches out for Mercy to give her one final warning before death, causing the poor girl to run back in terror.
At the school, the police are called about the body and try to get any description from Mercy but all she can tell them is about his blond hair. For days, Mercy stays in her room because she can't sleep due to nightmares about the girl so she has no energy beside being scarred by the finding of the bloody body.
Andy has to do a news story on the latest band to be playing at The Night Owl Club, Elysian Fields, due to the popularity of just how hot the lead singer is. Since the academy now has a rule that no one can go out alone until the police can find the girl's killer, Mercy tags along with Andy as they go to the club.
All of the band members dress the same and wear their long hair the same but the only one to stand out is handsome and blond lead singer...Conner Egan.
He is back in the town of Cooper Hollow two hundred years later and he intends to make Mercy his latest victim. The girl in the cemetery was just a taste of blood to regain his strength to finally find the young woman to take up his curse and free him.
If only lovelorn Mercedes hadn't stumbled upon them by accident so now Conner knows her presence and goes straight for her that night he sees her out in the front row of the crowd. All of the other girls can't believe he would go for someone like Mercy and are clearly jealous...except for Andrea.
There is something about Conner Egan that she does not like and Andy likes him even less when she sees him taking advantage of her friend. Once Andy realizes that Mercy is changing, she has no real idea just how dangerous Conner is until it may be too late...for both girls.
A true love, friendship counts as love, conquers evil tale set against a vampire trying to be one of those soulful types but not able to control his temper as a veiled substitute for a boyfriend who beats the crap out of his girlfriend. Mercy is the vampire's victim and Andy is more the main character is all you really need to know...
The climactic battle between good and evil does end in spectacular fashion and the actual ending is just saccharine enough to keep you from getting cavities but still not completely satisfying in a way.
Eternally Yours is like sugar free dark chocolate basically if that makes sense to anyone but me so just kind of meh...
Rounded up to 3 stars from 2.5 for GR.
February 7, 2024
While for some reason I’m not a huge fan of vampire books (weird because Buffy the Vampire Slayer is my favorite show lol) I found this book quite enjoyable. Even though it was fairly predictable and do all vampires in books have control over their victims like that? At least the book was fast paced and Andrea or Andy was a character you wanted to root for. The main character Mercedes or Mercy (what an awful nickname) was just there. Part of me wanted Conner to succeed and turn her. His backstory was tragic and I felt bad on how he was turned. But in the end he was a real douche and unfortunately all these books have a wrapped up happy ending.
November 25, 2024
When I was thirteen, I absolutely loved Cameron Dokey’s The Talisman. I don’t know how I’d feel about the book if I reread it as an adult, but the impression it made on me has stuck with me all these years. To say I’m disappointed by Eternally Yours is an understatement. She’s a better storyteller than this! I grumbled to myself. It’s not that it’s a bad book, per se. In fact, it reads almost like a meditation on the cycle of abuse... with vampires and weak characters and a spooky teen club that reminds me of a coffee shop I frequented in the mid-90s. Yay, nostalgia! (Side question: does every vampire in 90s YA have white-blond hair?)
July 24, 2018
Anyone who has been a fan of vampire films like Lost Boys, Near Dark, Fright Night or Vampire Diaries of even Buffy, could pretty much enjoy this. Read this years ago, like I did many of The Nightmare Club books.
January 7, 2015
This is not the most complex of stories, but it was the first "teen vampire horror" book I read, so there is a certain happy nostalgia about it. And having read many, many supernatural romances since there are several things I appreciate. The main one being the best friend telling the girl in love that her boyfriend )the vampire) is a bad dude. And not because he is a vamp, but because he makes her do things that could get her in trouble or cause her harm. Bestie calls out an abusive relationship and that does not happen as often as it should in any genre. It is a cute little story though. Girl falls in love with vampire who aims to turn her so her can be human again. It is part of a collection of stories that feature a night club, but I never read more in the line. Its not a bad teen-aged horror story if a person were looking to start in the genre.
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