Vampire Memoirs

Vampire Memoirs
by Mara McCuniff, Traci Briery

ISBN: 0786011246

Layed Back, Low Key Vampire Novel

I was somewhat disappointed in this book. Much of it seemed rather corny and there's no doubt that it's superficial. It's a story of a girl, Mara, born in the year 362 who is raised by her father asto be a brutal warrior, just as he was. She knew nothing of being a lady and has a hard time adjusting to other people,especially to a young man, Gaar, who tries to win her affection. Her early life is little more than adjusting from being a mercenary to a woman of the times. As her life appears to be changing, she is transformed into a Vampire against her will and her life after that is never the same. The centuries drag by and her isolated and lonely existence cover much of the rest of the book. Working as a bar wench or a waitress for scraps of money barely enough to get by.....living off of rats and other small animals.. this is the life of someone who's immortal, can change into a wolf or bat whenever she chooses? Surely the author could have been more creative than that.

The ending of the novel seems very out of place, almost as if different person wrote it, or as if the author didn't know where to go with the book and simply came up with a way to end it. The book just didn't have a point, nothing to make you remember it by. I would put this very low on the list of Vampire novels.

7/13/03