SOCIAL SCIENCES

Holiday with a Vampire 4

by Susan Krinard & others
. December 2012. 365p. 978-0-37388-559-6. 5.5.
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The holidays aren’t all carols and candlelight—and vampires aren’t all alike—in this intriguing trio of paranormal novellas that put a refreshing if unconventional spin on the Christmas season. The war between humans and the vampiric Opiri brings an unlikely pair together in Krinard’s inventive, postapocalyptic “Halfway to Dawn”; a locket passed down from mother to daughter holds a vampire’s soul and love is the key to its return in Theresa Meyers’s sweetly magical “The Gift”; and an astronomer searching for the true origin of the Christmas star finds love with the immortal sent to erase her memory in Linda Thomas-Sundstrom’s unusual “Bright Star.”
VERDICT The holidays cast a soul-warming glow on the characters in these three occasionally thought-provoking stories that should appeal to fans who like a little edge to their holiday fare.
Reviewed by Sue White , Oct 15, 2012
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