Maiden Sarah Story Book 1 edition by Deborah Hainley Bonnar Paranormal Romance eBooks
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I have very mixed feelings for this book. Spoilers ahead:First; I love vampire books. It doesn't matter to me whether they are good, bad, scary or sexy. I love them all.
Silvanus the Vamp: He was kind of lame for a vamp. He doesn't have fangs, he carries a little knife around with him to cut his victims so he can drink their blood. Day or night, doesn't matter, doesn't affect him whatsoever. He drinks and eats regular food. Garlic, silver, crosses, no problem. I don't really understand why the author made him a vampire at all unless it was to just capitalize on the popularity of the genre. He could have been an angel, demon, elf, fairy or whatever. He tells the h to call his name if she is in danger. He will always hear her. But then he will need to get a plane ticket and rent a car at the airport to get to her. She's long dead by then.
The Relationship: The 13 year old girl and the 35 year old vampire (technically 2055 years old) was a little weird. What made it weirder was over emphasis on it not being anything of a sexual nature. The review by shmonkey described this perfectly. Must we be reminded of this at every encounter?
Then, when she is finally old enough for them to be together, he acts like a real jackass. He kept reminding her all through the book how special she is to him and that he will always be in her life. So he leads her on to thinking they are going to spend the summer together (she's 21 now). Then tells her she needs to live her life without him. He rubs this in by making sure she catches him having sex with another woman and grooming one of his descendants to be her boyfriend, husband? This is not romantic to me. He even plans for this other guy to be her 1st lover.
The ending: (Remember I said there were spoilers.) He implies (to himself, not the girl who is madly in love with him, because why give her false hope when he wants her to be happy with this other guy?). I digress. He implies that he will be coming back for her (when she's about 40) and take her for himself. Why would he do that? Being a vampire romance reader, I would want to be changed over in my mid to late 20's (Not that there is anything wrong with 40, I've gone over that hump myself. But, let's face it girls, things have started to go downhill.) I haven't read the next 2 books, but assuming he eventually turns her when she's 40, he's going to have a very long eternity with a pissed off 40 year old woman who he could have turned when she's 25.
Pacing: It seemed to take a very long time to get to where this ends. Kudos to the author for her writing skills to keep me interested to the very end. I'm very easily bored and am not the type that feels I have to finish a book once I started. I dump a book quick when I get bored. But, after 300 pages, I feel strangely unsatisfied about where this series is going. I picked this book up as a freebie back in April 2012. Took me a long time to get to it. The next 2 books are $5 each, which isn't bad, but I haven't decided whether I will continue or not. I'm leaning towards getting at least the next book. And maybe I'll get an Amazon Gift Card for Christmas, only 30 days away.
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Maiden Sarah Story Book 1 edition by Deborah Hainley Bonnar Paranormal Romance eBooks Reviews
I really enjoyed this story. I took advantage of the free offer for not long ago. I don't read a lot in this genre, and so placed the story "on the 'to read' pile". I ended up finishing up some other books while on vacation, and out of wi-fi range to get more, so I thought I'd give it a shot. I could hardly putting it down as I got lost in the story.
I really enjoy the author's style of writing. The characters are very believable, and her imagination is amazing. Ms Bonnar's version of vampires is very attractive and appealing. Silvanus is cool as hell! He's not the wuss vampire of the Twilight type. He seems to be intelligent, cunning, and ruthless when he needs to be. His Roman village made me want to be there and live it. I really enjoyed his personal history and his role as a teacher...even if there's more to his reasons for the tutelage.
Those that are complaining about the "35-year-old" to 13-year-old "sexual relationship" are going a bit overboard, in my opinion (and we all have one, right?), as there was nothing to it, and it was laying the ground work for later in the other books.
So...now I'm on to "Mother"...
Well, I did stay up until 3am finishing this book so there must have been something about it that I really liked- just can't figure out what exactly. The overall theme is kind of similar to Twilight- very rich, very powerful, very attractive vampire trying to prevent the very innocent girl from falling in love with him because it's for the best- and I don't mean that as a compliment.
In a Vampire novel the vampires make or break the story and Silvanus didn't really do it for me. He's supposed to be this incredibly old, powerful vampire that was more then ready to kill Sarah just for summoning him (like a dog) but at the last minute he changes his mind and spends months helping her because... She's special? The book spends a lot of time talking about how special and awesome and amazing Sarah is and how she's so unique and special but it doesn't really show it. We're just supposed to understand that she's so special, so unique, (enough to win over the super bad ass, super jaded vampire in mere moments) but we don't really see why. We're told she's really special, numerous times, quite bluntly, but there's really nothing about her that seems to explain why Silvanus would be so captivated by her. Oh, and if you like your vampires "traditional" this one isn't for you. Sun has no effects on him (at least he doesn't glitter), he eats real food, he breathes, sleeps, and he doesn't have fangs. Yup, no fangs, just a very sharp knife. I have a feeling that if it wasn't important for Silvanus to not age (so that Sarah can catch up) he wouldn't have been a vampire at all.
Surprisingly, Sarah, as a protagonist didn't annoy me. It's hard to get the female lead right because it's a fine line between damsel in distress and a brainless nitwit, between a strong women and a stubborn nitwit. But then, it's hard to be annoying when you're not really there. I don't know if it makes much sense but, despite the fact that this book is all about Sarah she's not really... there. Physically, she's there, I mean, things are happening to her, she's saying things, etc. But it isn't so much about Sarah as a person but about feeling tormented by devils, feeling gratitude towards a vampire, a crush on a vampire, feeling abandoned by someone you love, etc. The main character in the novel is this feeling of love and longing for a vampire that just happens to be attached to a shell of a woman named Sarah. I once read a theory that Twilight is so popular because Edward and Bella are so poorly defined that it's easy for the reader to project themselves (and their love/crush) onto the characters and live out the fantasy in their head. Maybe that's what this author is doing?
As for the whole 13 year old girl and a "35" year old Vampire aspect... The author makes it VERY clear that she is VERY mature for her age (look and personality wise). She also makes it VERY VERY VERY VERY clear, NUMEROUS times, quite bluntly, that Silvanus DOES NOT find Sarah sexually attractive when she's young... though he totally will soon because she will grow up to be a stunning woman. She kind of beats you on the head with that to a point where I'm surprised she didn't just interject a disclaimer that read "ATTENTION READERS THE 35 YEAR OLD VAMPIRE DOES NOT FIND THE 13 YEAR OLD GIRL SEXUALLY ATTRACTIVE, AT ALL, LIKE NOT EVEN A LITTLE. HOWEVER, I DO WANT TO HAVE THEM FALL IN LOVE WHEN SHE'S OLD ENOUGH SO I WILL HAVE HIM TALK ABOUT SEX AND STUFF SO THAT WHEN HE DOES FALL FOR HER (AT AN APPROPRIATE AGE!) IT'S NOT COMING OUT OF NOWHERE. PLEASE DO NOT MISTAKE THE SEX TALK FOR SEXUAL TENSION."
I know this review sounds overly critical and, to be frank, I could go on some more (like how all the characters sounds the same and there's very little personality difference between the main players). But, I have to say, it's not a bad story; I mean, I did stay up all night finishing it (though I did skim through a lot of the back half because that whole thing in Italy... I don't know...). I still don't know what it is that kept me up late just to finish the book but kudos to the author for creating that need to finish. I wouldn't be spending this much time on a review if I just straight up didn't like it. The story has some great bones but the characters are so nondescript they don't stay with you after the book is done. It's like the author just really didn't want to turn anyone off so she made the characters as universal and vague as possible. I couldn't even tell you what the characters are supposed to look like; I just know they're supposed to be very attractive. Silvanus is barely a vampire, I'm not familiar with witches but Sarah didn't seem that "witchy", and I'm surprised there isn't some watered down werewolf thrown it (or is that what her dog was supposed to be?).
I have very mixed feelings for this book. Spoilers ahead
First; I love vampire books. It doesn't matter to me whether they are good, bad, scary or sexy. I love them all.
Silvanus the Vamp He was kind of lame for a vamp. He doesn't have fangs, he carries a little knife around with him to cut his victims so he can drink their blood. Day or night, doesn't matter, doesn't affect him whatsoever. He drinks and eats regular food. Garlic, silver, crosses, no problem. I don't really understand why the author made him a vampire at all unless it was to just capitalize on the popularity of the genre. He could have been an angel, demon, elf, fairy or whatever. He tells the h to call his name if she is in danger. He will always hear her. But then he will need to get a plane ticket and rent a car at the airport to get to her. She's long dead by then.
The Relationship The 13 year old girl and the 35 year old vampire (technically 2055 years old) was a little weird. What made it weirder was over emphasis on it not being anything of a sexual nature. The review by shmonkey described this perfectly. Must we be reminded of this at every encounter?
Then, when she is finally old enough for them to be together, he acts like a real jackass. He kept reminding her all through the book how special she is to him and that he will always be in her life. So he leads her on to thinking they are going to spend the summer together (she's 21 now). Then tells her she needs to live her life without him. He rubs this in by making sure she catches him having sex with another woman and grooming one of his descendants to be her boyfriend, husband? This is not romantic to me. He even plans for this other guy to be her 1st lover.
The ending (Remember I said there were spoilers.) He implies (to himself, not the girl who is madly in love with him, because why give her false hope when he wants her to be happy with this other guy?). I digress. He implies that he will be coming back for her (when she's about 40) and take her for himself. Why would he do that? Being a vampire romance reader, I would want to be changed over in my mid to late 20's (Not that there is anything wrong with 40, I've gone over that hump myself. But, let's face it girls, things have started to go downhill.) I haven't read the next 2 books, but assuming he eventually turns her when she's 40, he's going to have a very long eternity with a pissed off 40 year old woman who he could have turned when she's 25.
Pacing It seemed to take a very long time to get to where this ends. Kudos to the author for her writing skills to keep me interested to the very end. I'm very easily bored and am not the type that feels I have to finish a book once I started. I dump a book quick when I get bored. But, after 300 pages, I feel strangely unsatisfied about where this series is going. I picked this book up as a freebie back in April 2012. Took me a long time to get to it. The next 2 books are $5 each, which isn't bad, but I haven't decided whether I will continue or not. I'm leaning towards getting at least the next book. And maybe I'll get an Gift Card for Christmas, only 30 days away.
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