Status Updates From Piercing the Darkness: Unde...

Not even sure why I’m reading this. Apparently it’s terrible and severely outdated. Regardless, I’m in the mood for that.

You know, if people are telling you that they have raped and murdered people, maybe you should do more than shrug. You write books about killers. Seems important.
And if someone puts themselves out so you can see consensual blood-drinking for your vampire book, it is at best tacky to flee and be snide about it.

Also? Giving up on the premise of the book ("what happened to Walsh?") because you are bored is bizarre.

Susan Walsh is still missing because Ramsland was too busy reading (or making up) sadomasochistic smut about vampires and openly salivating over Anne Rice every few sentences.

Also, she's a rather poor writer, both from a literary and technical perspective. She needed more than an editor to make this a good book. Ideally, she should have just left her notes with a competent writer, who would have tossed most out.

This is a pitifully bad book.

KR: "Here is this *real* vampire!"
Vamp: "I am a gay man who like bloodplay."
KR: "OMG, just like in ANNE RICE!"

And repeat.

Oh, this is worse than I remember. Dated and her way of writing is trying.