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Dawn #2
Survive the Dawn
With the serum now in her bloodstream, Dr. Alex Taylor must find a suitable laboratory to continue her work to help the woman - well, vampire - she loves, Sebastian. Together they travel to Devon, England, where Sebastian hopes her old, old, friend, the flamboyant vamp Gaylen Prescott will assist them. All the while, they try to keep one step ahead of Nicholae, the elder in the hierarchy, who wants Sebastian destroyed. They find themselves deep in the catacombs of Guys Hospital in London and to Kendra, a sultry vamp who knew Sebastian quite well a century before, too well for Alex. Kendra is conducting similar experiments of her own. Alex becomes a reluctant comrade to this sexy vampire, and together they find a way for Sebastian and her world to survive the dawn.
256 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 2009
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Kate Sweeney
61 books172 followersKate Sweeney was the 2007 recipient of the Golden Crown Literary Society award for Debut Author for She Waits, the first in the Kate Ryan Mystery series, which was also nominated for the Lambda Literary Society award for Lesbian Mystery.
The second in the series, A Nice Clean Murder, was nominated the Lambda this year for Lesbian Mystery, and is a nominee for GCLS award in the Mystery category. Her novel Away from the Dawn released in August 2007 is also nominated for the GCLS award for Speculative Fiction. She is also a contributing author for the anthology Wild Nights: (Mostly) True Stories of Women Loving Women, published by Bella Books.
Born in Chicago, Kate resides in Villa Park, Illinois, where she works as an office manager—no glamour here, folks; it pays the bills. Humor is deeply embedded in Kate’s DNA. She sincerely hopes you will see this when you read her novels, short stories, and other works.
The second in the series, A Nice Clean Murder, was nominated the Lambda this year for Lesbian Mystery, and is a nominee for GCLS award in the Mystery category. Her novel Away from the Dawn released in August 2007 is also nominated for the GCLS award for Speculative Fiction. She is also a contributing author for the anthology Wild Nights: (Mostly) True Stories of Women Loving Women, published by Bella Books.
Born in Chicago, Kate resides in Villa Park, Illinois, where she works as an office manager—no glamour here, folks; it pays the bills. Humor is deeply embedded in Kate’s DNA. She sincerely hopes you will see this when you read her novels, short stories, and other works.
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July 7, 2022
The first book is usually the best in a series…
I still think so. There is so much to write in this book that you sort of delve into two timelines. One of the many shared pasta of the vamps and the present. I have a love-hate relationship with Leigh. I just love her ways and her humor. She intrigues me. But she is a frightening loon. Then and now. She’s does make for a very interesting plot.
In this installment; it didn’t seem as if Sebastian and Alex were close at all. It could be all the stories of the past and the many loves and conquests of Sebastian. Maybe that is to show that she really does love Alex, but it did not do it for me. Alex seemed more of an afterthought. And when they had their “pow wow” and even before then; it seems that Sebastian was tiring of her. She wasn’t as soft or tender with her. She made it seem as if Alex was too talkative, too impressed by Sebastian’s vast wealth and etc.
The author made Alex seem more pedestrian in her feelings and her thoughts. And what was a driving wedge seemed so forced and unfortunate. At the end of the book when they reunite; it was so underwhelming. Their relationship now lacks the intensity and the consumed interest in one another. Felt like a divorce was looming, as if they were married. Sigh.
I still think so. There is so much to write in this book that you sort of delve into two timelines. One of the many shared pasta of the vamps and the present. I have a love-hate relationship with Leigh. I just love her ways and her humor. She intrigues me. But she is a frightening loon. Then and now. She’s does make for a very interesting plot.
In this installment; it didn’t seem as if Sebastian and Alex were close at all. It could be all the stories of the past and the many loves and conquests of Sebastian. Maybe that is to show that she really does love Alex, but it did not do it for me. Alex seemed more of an afterthought. And when they had their “pow wow” and even before then; it seems that Sebastian was tiring of her. She wasn’t as soft or tender with her. She made it seem as if Alex was too talkative, too impressed by Sebastian’s vast wealth and etc.
The author made Alex seem more pedestrian in her feelings and her thoughts. And what was a driving wedge seemed so forced and unfortunate. At the end of the book when they reunite; it was so underwhelming. Their relationship now lacks the intensity and the consumed interest in one another. Felt like a divorce was looming, as if they were married. Sigh.
January 22, 2015
(Previously posted on the first book by mistake) I thought the characters and plot were excellent. It was one of the books you want to see on the big screen. What let it down was the abrupt ending. It finished about two or three chapters too soon. I hope a third book is in the pipeline and that it carries on where this one failed to go.
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