Nocturnal Book Reviews

I remember how much I enjoyed reading Throne by Phil Tucker last year. Vampire Miami was just as enjoyable. In fact it was so enjoyable that I went on Amazon and bought and read book #2 straight away.

The thing is, Phil Tucker had guts to do something Julie Kagawa couldn't or wouldn't do with Allison in her Blood of Eden series. He had no qualms creating a monster.

Selah is a young girl who willingly moves into vampire territory Miami from New York just so she could find her father who disappeared investigating a mysterious new drug connected to the vampires.

She starts as she means to go by asking her new neighbour to take her to the vampire club so she can ask a few questions. She is pretty naive, inexperienced and gets into trouble easily which puts her on the radar of vampires and rebels.

What happens next is totally unexpected. Vampire attack which should have left the girl drained, creates an exchange between her and the vamp while the vamp gets back the forgotten ability to feel and Selah borrows the vamps strength and way of thinking.

Suddenly Selah is a pawn in vampire power games, and she needs to do everything in her power to survive and escape, but her time is running out when the vampire king decides to use her to gain his soul back.

The pace is pretty much brutal. People get hurt and they die, the action is non-stop and stark world building grips you and doesn't let go until the last page. There is something raw and very charismatic in Vampire Miami.

Recommended to fans of Blood of Eden and Julia Poe series.