Raven Hart, The Vampire’s Seduction

I love this book. It is totally amazing. The way Raven Hart writes and the way she makes it so easy to actually feel like your right there in the adventure with William and Jack is fangtastic

The Vampire's Seduction

Raven Hart

Ballantine, April 2006, $6.99, 416 pp.

ISBN: 0345479750

He is a vampire over five hundred years old, lives in Savannah and has all the wealth, power and women he wants. Life is good for him and Jack, William's sire and Jack is one of the few beings he cares about partly because he created him and partly because of his winning personality. They live together though Jack doesn't know much about being a vampire but his loyalty to William is unique and will be needed in the days ahead because William's sire, the truly evil Reedrek who killed is wife and son, is coming for him.

William has been smuggling the young vampires who want to leave their masters out of Europe and Reedrek has picked up his trail. William's sire is stronger and more powerful than his fledgling but the younger has other weapons, including the use of voodoo that makes it questionable what will happen when the final confrontation takes place. Reedrek gets his hooks in Jack by promising him the power that William denied him; it remains to be seen who Jack ultimately gives his loyalty to cause it might make a difference on the outcome.

Raven Hart humanizes William and Jack so that readers can empathize with them and their problems. Although William has a healthy sex life and lovers he cares about, his heart is buried with his wife and son killed by his enemy. The vampires in this book seem so very real, (including the villain) that readers will start to wonder if they actively exist. William and Jack have heart if not souls and they care about people both vampires and humans making them easy to like. THE VAMPIRE'S SEDUCTION is an exotic exciting thriller.

Harriet Klausner