Now back to my cup of tea; vampires. This was an interesting one and some new fresh ideas here. It was a short story, but one that will be part of a seven book series. Five stars.
What a tasty morsel this was. It was very short and I’ve
would have liked to get my fangs into something a bit longer, but the good news
is that this is part one of seven. This excellent short story starts a
promising series.
John Hennessy very cleverly messes with his readers minds. Firstly
his characters are young children; they have the faces of angels but are
capable of gruesome and violent acts. Marcus the oldest of the three siblings
has fully embraced his vampire nature and tries to get his siblings to follow
his lead. His brother is easily manipulated, but his sister objects. Here the
author messes with us again by throwing doubt on the assumption that Marcus is
a vampire. Is he just a disturbed young boy that thinks he is a vampire? Vampires
are just a myth, right? Marcus, despite his young age, is a manipulative
character and I found him quite chilling. People who like things clear cut and
logical might have a problem here, but I took it as a story told from the
perspective of the children. You get three kids in separate rooms and you get
three completely different stories and two will be far removed from the truth. (At
times this might even be a little trippy.) The ending was unexpected but a
little sudden. I do hope that in the next stories we will delve a bit deeper
into the lives and backgrounds of the three siblings (or that the reader gets
further messed with). A different take on the vampire genre and certainly
something I want to read more of.
