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Sunrise in the Garden of Love and Evil - Vampire Book Review
by Patricia Altner
Sunrise in the Garden of Love and Evil
by Barbara Monajem
Love Spell (March 30, 2010)
Sunrise is a frolic in a zany town catering to vampire seeking tourists This small Louisiana town is not far from New Orleans, Anne Rice territory. As it turns out vampires do exist here, but for the most part keep it secret from normals. In Monajem's world a vampire is someone born with a rare gene. The lust for blood and sex doesn't become apparent until puberty and then it sets in with a vengeance. We witness teenage Zelda, Ophela Beliveau opinionated niece, as she goes through extraordinary growing pains.
Ophelia also has the rare genetic anomaly. Having sworn of sex she must get her needed blood supply from very rare meat. She wants the relationship to be meaningful, but that seems an impossibility. Her last experience was extremely painful. The man she adored was repulsed by her fangs which appear whenever she becomes aroused. Her efforts to hide them were in vain. What a dilemma.
Into this picture enters Gideon an extraordinarily good looking police detective who shows up at Ophelia's because someone, a nasty neighbor she suspect, has destroyed her garden. As the owner of her own landscaping business this kind of vandalism infuriates her. The sizzling sexual chemistry between Gideon and Ophelia is obvious and immediate. Ophelia is not only beautiful but she sends out high intensity sexual vibes, since she hasn't had any, so to speak, for quite a while. Ophelia holds back her feelings. she absolutely will not let herself get close to Gideon believing he would also reject her when the fangs come out.
What everyone thought at first was simple vandalism turns out to be part of a nasty campaign against Ophelia. This includes blackmail, murder and false accusations of child molestations. Things gets brutal, but never graphic, and there is plenty of comic relief.
The plot contains plenty of surprises and suspense, but it was the charming, offbeat characters that kept my attention throughout. Quite a fun book!
Patricia Altner is a freelance writer, researcher, and bibliographer with a special interest in vampire and paranormal fiction. Her book Vampire Readings: An Annotated Bibliography was published by Scarecrow Press in 1998. She recently researched vampire fiction for a law firm.
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