Bought in a library sale, to take to Unconvention.

I picked this up at the UnConvention last weekend, and this is the first chance I've had to journal it! I picked up 15+ books including ones that I ws "owed", so it might take a few weeks to get through them all! (And that was only picking up ones that really appealed! *lol*)

I quite liked this book. We went to a meet in Oxfordshire yesterday, and by the time we got home, I was quite exhausted! So I picked up a book, and sat down and read it for about 4 hours.

This happened to be the book that I chose, and it was a good story, all about a bizarre kind of vampire. They're not like the typical vampires, who can't go out in sunlight and stuff, more a strange race whose blood is markedly different to our own. A doctor is researching how to prevent aging, in a colony of rhesus monkeys, and before tragedy strikes, the team have noticed certain bizarre readings in the blood samples they are taking. Then a woman comes to the clinic, apparenly seeking assistance with combating her night terrors, and she has similar attributes in her blood, only she seems to be perfectly healthy.

There's an excerpt from the beginning of the sequel in the back of the book, though, and this seemed very odd. Not because it was in the book - this is quite common these days, to get people to rush out and buy the new book and net the author more money, but because there seemed to be very little continuity between the two. The ways in which each of her parents died, for example, were totally different in each of the books?! It was as if the previous story hadn't gelled with what the author wanted to write now, so he just changed it, with little regard for anyone who had read The Hunger! Very strange! I'm not sure I'll be seeking out The Last Vampire, to be honest.

Thanks for taking the book to the unconvention, LondonMet. I'll either release it, or I might take it to another meet up sometime.

RELEASE NOTES:

Taking this to the meet tomorrow lunchtime :o)

A friend and I read quite a few vampire series, and have mostly run out of anything else we particularly like - so snaffled this from a pile o' books at the Cherry Tree yesterday for Mount TBR.