Green, Chris Marie
VAMPIRE BABYLON: Night Rising Book I
Chris Marie Green
ACE 2007
Pb 336 pages
ISBN# 10: 0441014674; ISBN# 13: 978-0441014675
Vampires live underground in Hollywood...makes it convenient for stars to improve their image. I read this book because I like a writing style that moves, and author Green certainly gives us that.
Stunt-woman Dawn Madison gets called home to L.A. because her dad has gone missing. Everything in Dawn’s life has gone missing at one time or another: her career, her mom, so what else is new? Well, she had not known that her dad Frank’s last job was as a P.I. for a paranormal agency. Dawn gets recruited to solve not only the mystery of her father’s disappearance, but also the case he was on at the time, because the two are probably connected. Case: long dead child star Robby Pennybaker has shown his face on film again—a very recent film. Dawn doesn’t know it, but vampires are involved.
This is a book to read if you like vampires and stories about Hollywood culture. It is not a book to read if you’re especially picky about story structure. Science fiction fans will wonder how the psychic can get information of Frank’s disappearance off one of the shirts he wore before he disappeared. Readers who like being rewarded for their time might be disappointed in a story arch so steep that you get more teasers in this first volume than rewards. Even though the teasers are very well done, this reader felt let down that at least some of the parts of the story were not completed at this juncture.
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