I've downloaded this book when it had been free. I hadn't realized, when I started reading it, that I already had read another book of Terence Jackson: "Thirty Days and Counting".
Well, now, this book was different. First of all - it seems to be a Paranormal Romance/Drama. I add the drama on purpose because I can't think of this book as a romance.
MAJOR SPOILER
It tells the story of young Jacob, meeting this compelling Terick in a coffehouse, getting to know him, falling in love and living together for a few years. So far everything was narrated a bit superficial, as a reader you missed to get the depth of emotions but obviously they had a great life and were crazy in love.
Then Jacob utters in a postcoital bliss that he wishes that everything would be like this forever - and Terick tears his throat open and kills him and turns him to a vampire. Ups....while Jacob wakes up in the morgue, Terick gets imprisoned in a Ward. You get the feeling that the real story starts here.
Jacob's way to find out what had happened, what he is now and how to live with it is the main part of the first half of the book. He finds out who Terick is and then gets him free. His love for him? Gone....
And suddenly we follow Terick's life after Jacob has kicked him to the curb. It's the way back in his past, he tries to find himself and understand what had happened, how everything could go so wrong. And just close to the end of the book something unexpected happens.
Not sure if I really want to say it - but the end is NOTHING anybody would have expected and defintely not a happy one in my opinion. And for those who haven't read "Thirty Days and Counting" not very meaningful.
The writing style is better than in "Thirty Days and Counting", there are likable characters, too. Some things don't seem logical while reading (e.g. If they can use mind control and let humans forget what they were doing, why killing them while feeding? Or how was it possible for Jacob to get Terick out of the Ward?) but when you have read the end you'll understand that the flaws in logic won't matter.
So if you want a book with an happy end, love and some hot secenes - this isn't it. Still - I've finshed it so it must have been at least interesting enough for that ;) I don't finish books that can't hold my attention.
