Dec 132012
The Vampire from Hell (Part 1) – The Beginning
According to Rayea, the oldest daughter of Satan, the origin of vampires started in Hell, and it started with her. Rayea isn’t daddy’s little girl, even if he is the most powerful fallen angel around. He wants her to take an active role in the family business. But she’s not interested in his schemes for world domination. Instead she wants to spend her time shopping on the Internet, rescuing humans from a horrific eternity, and practicing martial arts with her seven foot hellhound. Then one day e
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Definitely Looking Forward to More,
“The Vampire from Hell” is a great idea, one I thought unique from my perspective. I don’t generally choose vampire fiction as a genre to read personally, but Amy Larkin’s idea drew me in though often I wanted a more detailed picture of “Hell” so I could visualize it’s denizens and their activities. More background information would have been greatly appreciated, but one supposes this will be expounded upon in the next installments.
One of the things about stories told in first person is that observations are all from the main character’s source. There were times when another character’s emotions or thoughts were given yet lacked explanation of how the main character knew them. It’s a tricky medium because you really have to balance how much you are telling or speaking in the character’s voice and then merely letting a scene unfold on its own and just describe it. The writing style would do well to evolve into a more flowing experience for reader by doing more showing than telling.
So many vampire fiction characters are somehow all-knowing, powerful and engaged in epic struggles while still leaping from bed to bed, but this is a personal story where the character Rayea shows both defiant determination to be an individual with their own motivations and thoughts and a vulnerability that is understandable under the circumstances. The circumstances being her father is Satan and when he doesn’t like something she might have done, torture and humiliation are his methods of letting her know. There are many possibilities for this series, and I feel Amy Larkin has much enthusiasm for her stories. I look forward to how “The Vampire from Hell” progresses.
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|Too cutesy,
This is more like the beginning to a story than a full story.
There were many things I didn’t really get about this story. According to the item description, vampires come from hell and Rayea is the first vampire. But Rayea turns into a vampire in a modern setting, so does that mean that vampires didn’t exist before that? From the story, it seems that Satan is saying that she’s a better type of vampire, not a completely new creature. So I was puzzled there.
I also didn’t get why Stephanie threatened to tell Satan that Rayea had an iPhone . . . and then a second later, Satan sent Rayea a text message. Was he okay with different types of phones and only didn’t like iPhones?
The story just felt too cutesy. Like they use computers to determine the final disposition of souls in Hell and that is why Rayea was able to get away with so much. What did they use before computers?
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|Free was almost too much,
Even just a sample of this book was too much. It was just bad. The devil having a wine tasting with his evil daughter named….Stephanie? Really? A 7 foot hellhound that sends text messages to the devil’s other daughter, who is busy tweeting and buying on Ebay. The “house of G”. Seriously…almost laughable.
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