Ella the Vampire
Publisher: Lyrical Press
Genre: Paranormal
Summary: This book starts with Ella as a prostitute, with an abused past, who is still allowing herself to be used. Another main character, Wolfgang King empowers Ella as a vampire and we are immediately propelled into the world and lore of the undead. Ella deals with all the things we imagine vampires dealing with; the need to feed on blood, the secrecy, the dread of the sunlight. She also discovers the advantages we all imagine; the strength, the immortality, the transformation to bat, wolf, and vaporous cloud. The author follows approximately 700 years of Ella’s undead life, and we get wonderful and well thought out glimpses into the future and the past. Of course the books central conflict and its conclusion are built upon vampire immortality: is it a gift or a curse?
My Review: An exciting story with well paced plot (slow in just a few places) is what Mr. Levenson has given us here. Ella experiences almost all we can imagine in her 700 plus years of vampire life, and the author interjects all a vampire buff could want including a coven, Ella doing a Terminator type scene in rescuing her friends from a police station, and some Blade type action when she and a fellow vampire take on a nest of bad vampires. This reviewer began to think we were doing a reverse Buffy here with the vampire as the good guy. Ella gives us action galore with well constructed characters and plenty of vampire lore and references.
So you ask, what didn’t I like. Simple, no passion, no eroticism, practically no sex, at least no
t described sex. They kiss, and poof, next scene. Frustrated the hell out of me and making me wonder why Ella wasn’t a sixty year old Methodist woman with a walker. Is it me or does a cover with a blonde hottie showing her ass say we are gonna have vampire eroticism and sex? Well the characters have it, but shush like we are kiddies we don’t get to hear about it. Seriously, I may be off base here, but I don’t think so, isn’t some of the appeal of vampires in the eroticism and sexual implications of it? I mean the undead biting you on the neck, I know it gets me bothered. I was annoyed how violence seemed to take precedence as when Ella kills people and vampires, we hear all about how they died, but when she makes love, not so much. If you read Ella, do so for the action, history, or vampire lore, but don’t expect passion because it’s not there. This book split me right down the middle, and that’s how I have to rate it.
Rated Two and one half Delightful Divas by Jennifer Campbell!
Publisher: Lyrical Press
Genre: Paranormal
Summary: This book starts with Ella as a prostitute, with an abused past, who is still allowing herself to be used. Another main character, Wolfgang King empowers Ella as a vampire and we are immediately propelled into the world and lore of the undead. Ella deals with all the things we imagine vampires dealing with; the need to feed on blood, the secrecy, the dread of the sunlight. She also discovers the advantages we all imagine; the strength, the immortality, the transformation to bat, wolf, and vaporous cloud. The author follows approximately 700 years of Ella’s undead life, and we get wonderful and well thought out glimpses into the future and the past. Of course the books central conflict and its conclusion are built upon vampire immortality: is it a gift or a curse?
My Review: An exciting story with well paced plot (slow in just a few places) is what Mr. Levenson has given us here. Ella experiences almost all we can imagine in her 700 plus years of vampire life, and the author interjects all a vampire buff could want including a coven, Ella doing a Terminator type scene in rescuing her friends from a police station, and some Blade type action when she and a fellow vampire take on a nest of bad vampires. This reviewer began to think we were doing a reverse Buffy here with the vampire as the good guy. Ella gives us action galore with well constructed characters and plenty of vampire lore and references.
So you ask, what didn’t I like. Simple, no passion, no eroticism, practically no sex, at least no
t described sex. They kiss, and poof, next scene. Frustrated the hell out of me and making me wonder why Ella wasn’t a sixty year old Methodist woman with a walker. Is it me or does a cover with a blonde hottie showing her ass say we are gonna have vampire eroticism and sex? Well the characters have it, but shush like we are kiddies we don’t get to hear about it. Seriously, I may be off base here, but I don’t think so, isn’t some of the appeal of vampires in the eroticism and sexual implications of it? I mean the undead biting you on the neck, I know it gets me bothered. I was annoyed how violence seemed to take precedence as when Ella kills people and vampires, we hear all about how they died, but when she makes love, not so much. If you read Ella, do so for the action, history, or vampire lore, but don’t expect passion because it’s not there. This book split me right down the middle, and that’s how I have to rate it.Rated Two and one half Delightful Divas by Jennifer Campbell!
2 loved readers said:
Thank you for reviewing my book! I'm glad you found some positive things in it.
I believe you'll find at least one extensive, explicit sex scene (Ella and Kwan) in the section taking place in San Francisco.
Yes, Paul there was one fairly explicit scene, but unfortunately its over 250 pages into the book and quite frankly, if I hadn't been reading for the review, I might have put it down before then for the lack of sex. It was frustrating to be teased so.
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