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- VampireSeductress
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- Author: Lance Panzer
- Reviewer: J.M. Cornwell
- Publisher: Books Unbound E-Publishing Co. (2003)
- ISBN: 1592010075
- Rating: * * Quills
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- Ross Sherman is dancing the night away at an office Christmas party with friend Jane Hampton when he is riveted by the siren call of a raven-haired beauty. He follows the primal pull, leaving his previously overwhelming attraction to Jane behind, changing his life forever.
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- Vampire Seductress is less about the seductress and more about Ross Sherman's abrupt trip from the light into a darkness that is dazzling beyond anything he ever dreamed possible. Ross leaves behind not only an attraction to a colleague, but his girlfriend Helen, who is distraught at his sudden and mysterious disappearance in the wake of death and destruction.
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- Lance Panzer breaks new ground in vampire lore, breaking with the traditional bite and exchange of blood and adding a sexual theme that runs throughout the book. Simone, the vampire seductress, has been around for centuries and has witnessed or been part of the most notable moments in history. Ross is quickly mesmerized by his new and more opulent lifestyle. Although he mentions the past he has left behind and talks about his remorse, his emotions do not ring true. He careens from one avant garde sexual escapade to another, wearing the latest and most expensive clothes designed by Simone's fashion protégées, in a blood-soaked orgy of excess. Woven in and around the continuous orgy are historical milestones and figures in Simone's immortal life that fail to do little more than provide a
much needed respite from sex, blood and more sex.
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- Thrown in between the glaring holes in an otherwise sketchy plot is a vampire foe that shows up for a couple of quick cameos and is then forgotten, except for an offhand mention here and there, until the very end of the book. The final conflict provides a fast-paced bit of story thrown in where the author ran out of places for more vampiric orgies and hedonistic excess. It is only at the very end that Ross shows glimmers of becoming interesting, but it is too little too late.
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- Vampire Seductress isn't a bad book; it is voyeuristic vampire mind candy that is at times more like slogging through hip deep clotted blood with faint glimmers of promise that fails to deliver. Vampire Seductress earns one quill for lush language and one quill for a new twist on vampire lore.
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