Vampire Sunrise

Vampire Sunrise (2009) Carole Nelson Douglas

Things pick up immediately where the last book left off. Ric is still unconscious after almost being killed, Delilah continues to be wracked with guilt over kissing Snow, and Lilith–Delilah’s twin or perhaps Doppelganger–remains a mystery.

On of the things I’ve enjoyed about this series is that it doesn’t take itself seriously. It’s fun, at times it’s silly, and although Delilah (and Ric for that matter) has a damaged past, she doesn’t dwell on the past–too much. And she’s trying to get past her problems.

And that’s how this book started out. But at some point towards the end it felt like things went completely off the rails, and I actually stopped reading and went, “What the fuck is going on here?” Although there was eventually an explanation, I can’t say that even after it made a whole lot of sense, nor did the scene that I felt went so wrong even feel necessary to the story. It seems like many other things could have been done to get Del where she ended up. But what did happen–as well as Del’s reaction–made almost no sense.

Now the story did pick itself back up and recover, and although there are still big mysteries that remain unsolved, we were not left hanging at the end of this book the way we were at the end of the last.

But the bizarre scene that threw me out of the story and confused the hell out of me remains (to me) a major weak point in the story.

I like Del, and I’m curious as to what happens to her, but I’m not so much in the mood for the extreme weirdness that we got towards the end of this book.
Rating: 6/10

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