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Vampires Anonymous
With the untimely death of the vampire Lord, Cyrus Hayes, things almost seem ready to settle down for Adrian Shadowhawk and his mentor, Eli Howard--except for one seriously loose end, and it's being controlled from the grave.
Former lackey and hit man Adam Mathews has inherited ten million dollars to carry out Cyrus' plan for world domination of all humans, and Adam's own personal vendetta against Eli will tie in nicely with the elimination of the Vampire Council in Detroit.
A new player has joined the game. The vampire known only as Zacharias steps in to ensure that Cyrus' vision will be fulfilled. With his help, Adam completely disappears from Adrian's computer surveillance for the next three years while the two of them formulate a new plan.
Despite the vanishing act, Eli and Adrian are painfully reminded that Adam has not gone away for good, as the people dear to them become additional targets for his killings.
Through generous political contributions, Adam has the new Mayor and Police Chief of Detroit in his back pocket, and the stage is set for a major confrontation. But the war will not be confined to the city. It's about to spread to the entire vampire world.
Vampires Anonymous is the second novel of the Mortal Vampires Trilogy.
Former lackey and hit man Adam Mathews has inherited ten million dollars to carry out Cyrus' plan for world domination of all humans, and Adam's own personal vendetta against Eli will tie in nicely with the elimination of the Vampire Council in Detroit.
A new player has joined the game. The vampire known only as Zacharias steps in to ensure that Cyrus' vision will be fulfilled. With his help, Adam completely disappears from Adrian's computer surveillance for the next three years while the two of them formulate a new plan.
Despite the vanishing act, Eli and Adrian are painfully reminded that Adam has not gone away for good, as the people dear to them become additional targets for his killings.
Through generous political contributions, Adam has the new Mayor and Police Chief of Detroit in his back pocket, and the stage is set for a major confrontation. But the war will not be confined to the city. It's about to spread to the entire vampire world.
Vampires Anonymous is the second novel of the Mortal Vampires Trilogy.
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First published July 19, 2010
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August 18, 2013
3.5 Stars
In the second of three books, authors Taubold and Hosey continue their Mortal Vampires trilogy with a story of revenge, love, mystery and questions asked and answered. In book one, Vampires Inc., we met the core characters of the story who have banded together to fight a dastardly contract killer out to carry on the legacy of his employer, who our hero Eli Howard killed. Our story continues with more people joining the original group to fight the evil that is trying to destroy all good vampires and become the ruling force in the world.
This book is chock full of characters, twists and turns, time changes and more back stories then you can imagine. The lives of our returning characters are shaken up when Adam Mathews, the contract killer hired by now dead evil vampire Cyrus Hayes is determined to get revenge against Eli and Adrian.
Adam is joined in his quest by mysterious vampire Zacharias, who also worked with Cyrus and knows much more than he is telling. Eli has moved into the home of fellow vampire Rebecca Goodman, who worked for Eli’s good friend Ysabel who was a member of the Vampire Council and killed by Cyrus in Book 1, leaving her home and business to Rebecca. Eli and Rebecca have joined the Vampire Council, bringing young Adrian Shadowhawk in as the council’s computer expert. Eli was Adrian’s mentor and in this book we learn a little more of Adrian’s past and how he and Eli met.
Ten year old vampire Jonathan Clayton is now living part of the time with Eli and Rebecca but spending most of his time with Adrian, who lives in Eli’s old home. They are joined occasionally by their human friend Drake Radley, whose father Ethan got involved with Cyrus through his drug research company which ended with him being killed (or was he?) and his company became the focus of an investigation by the FBI.
Drake’s mother, Val now runs the company until Drake is old enough to take over, and it is she who has to deal with FBI agent Calvin Jacobs, who just might know more than he lets on. More characters are introduced in this book – Teddy Anthony a black, gay vampire, Karry Preston a neo-Nazi who in a strange turn of events gets turned into a vampire, Vanessa Kingsley another young vampire who was rescued by Eli and his friend Ling Lu and who remained friends with Ling. They all come together with the purpose of finding and defeating Adam, a task easier said than done.
The story begins in 1998 when we learn how Adrian and Eli met, then progresses through time to finally end in August 2007. The bulk of the story goes from 2004 through 2007 with little side jaunts into the past to give us background on new characters.
I did have a few niggles with this book, the time changes, while done well and were clearly defined were a bit much for me, going back and forth, here and there was just confusing. The huge bulk of characters made the story tedious in places and just clunky at times. There was a lot going on in this story, we not only switched times we switched locations, going from Detroit to England to New York to somewhere we weren’t sure of to Ireland and back again. There were a number of little mini-plots going on, each important in their own right but pulled together into one big story did make me have to scroll back through the book more than once to get refreshed on who was who and what was what.
I’ve always said I like a good story and a lot can be forgiven if I’ve been told one, while I felt like the book was too busy and too character heavy, I did enjoy the story I was being told and look forward to reading the next book.
Member of the Paranormal Romance Guild Dual Review Team
In the second of three books, authors Taubold and Hosey continue their Mortal Vampires trilogy with a story of revenge, love, mystery and questions asked and answered. In book one, Vampires Inc., we met the core characters of the story who have banded together to fight a dastardly contract killer out to carry on the legacy of his employer, who our hero Eli Howard killed. Our story continues with more people joining the original group to fight the evil that is trying to destroy all good vampires and become the ruling force in the world.
This book is chock full of characters, twists and turns, time changes and more back stories then you can imagine. The lives of our returning characters are shaken up when Adam Mathews, the contract killer hired by now dead evil vampire Cyrus Hayes is determined to get revenge against Eli and Adrian.
Adam is joined in his quest by mysterious vampire Zacharias, who also worked with Cyrus and knows much more than he is telling. Eli has moved into the home of fellow vampire Rebecca Goodman, who worked for Eli’s good friend Ysabel who was a member of the Vampire Council and killed by Cyrus in Book 1, leaving her home and business to Rebecca. Eli and Rebecca have joined the Vampire Council, bringing young Adrian Shadowhawk in as the council’s computer expert. Eli was Adrian’s mentor and in this book we learn a little more of Adrian’s past and how he and Eli met.
Ten year old vampire Jonathan Clayton is now living part of the time with Eli and Rebecca but spending most of his time with Adrian, who lives in Eli’s old home. They are joined occasionally by their human friend Drake Radley, whose father Ethan got involved with Cyrus through his drug research company which ended with him being killed (or was he?) and his company became the focus of an investigation by the FBI.
Drake’s mother, Val now runs the company until Drake is old enough to take over, and it is she who has to deal with FBI agent Calvin Jacobs, who just might know more than he lets on. More characters are introduced in this book – Teddy Anthony a black, gay vampire, Karry Preston a neo-Nazi who in a strange turn of events gets turned into a vampire, Vanessa Kingsley another young vampire who was rescued by Eli and his friend Ling Lu and who remained friends with Ling. They all come together with the purpose of finding and defeating Adam, a task easier said than done.
The story begins in 1998 when we learn how Adrian and Eli met, then progresses through time to finally end in August 2007. The bulk of the story goes from 2004 through 2007 with little side jaunts into the past to give us background on new characters.
I did have a few niggles with this book, the time changes, while done well and were clearly defined were a bit much for me, going back and forth, here and there was just confusing. The huge bulk of characters made the story tedious in places and just clunky at times. There was a lot going on in this story, we not only switched times we switched locations, going from Detroit to England to New York to somewhere we weren’t sure of to Ireland and back again. There were a number of little mini-plots going on, each important in their own right but pulled together into one big story did make me have to scroll back through the book more than once to get refreshed on who was who and what was what.
I’ve always said I like a good story and a lot can be forgiven if I’ve been told one, while I felt like the book was too busy and too character heavy, I did enjoy the story I was being told and look forward to reading the next book.
Member of the Paranormal Romance Guild Dual Review Team
October 10, 2011
This story gives more background on Adrian, how he met, was saved from his drug habits and inevitable death from AIDS, and eventually converted by Eli. And with that enticing little bit of info, the story takes off. Characters from the previous book show up with the briefest introductions (and really, there’s no need, for this story flows directly from the first one so easily those who read Vampires Anonymous don’t need any explanations, and those who haven’t can infer what’s going on very easily.) Explanations of why these vampires are different from the “traditional” kind are given in conversations so no one gets bogged down with lengthy explanations. The good guys are good, the bad guys are bad, but all being vampires, there’s a little spilling over of each into the other. The analysis of Adam Matthews’ character and background hint at much more to come from this villain. And the ending is a cliffhanger (being part of a series, there has to be some hint at another story) but the ending is still satisfying.
It’s an entertaining book, a different look at alternate to the Undead lifestyle, and a good suspense tale and I highly recommend it.
It’s an entertaining book, a different look at alternate to the Undead lifestyle, and a good suspense tale and I highly recommend it.
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