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Shadows on the Soul
Jenna Black
Tor, Sep 2007, $6.99
ISBN: 9780765357175
When Philadelphian Eli created the Guardian vampires to protect the innocent, the hardest task he faced was killing his Gabriel. The credo of the Guardians is not to kill while Gabriel is a killer. However, Eli’s hesitation enabled Gabriel to survive vowing to one day commit patricide.
Meanwhile Gabriel has his own “offspring” Jezebel who he plans to use as an expendable pawn to get inside his father’s inner circle. He is unprepared for the warm connection between his father and his ward and worse his own feelings towards Jezebel as his heart froze when Eli tried to kill him. However, he has no time to analyze his feelings as his mother, who he defeated before in Baltimore and another vampire attack father and son. If Eli and Gabriel fail to unite against their common enemy, they will both die.
The key to this fabulous paranormal thriller is that Jenna Black’s vampiric America seems reasonable. The family feud story line is fun to follow as the adversarial relationship between father and son is made worse by how they feel towards Jezebel and the need to trust one another after five centuries of discord if they are to survive the European imperial invasion. Paranormal romantic suspense fans will enjoy Ms. Black’s latest Guardians tale (see Secrets in the Shadows)
Jenna Black
Tor, Sep 2007, $6.99
ISBN: 9780765357175
When Philadelphian Eli created the Guardian vampires to protect the innocent, the hardest task he faced was killing his Gabriel. The credo of the Guardians is not to kill while Gabriel is a killer. However, Eli’s hesitation enabled Gabriel to survive vowing to one day commit patricide.
Meanwhile Gabriel has his own “offspring” Jezebel who he plans to use as an expendable pawn to get inside his father’s inner circle. He is unprepared for the warm connection between his father and his ward and worse his own feelings towards Jezebel as his heart froze when Eli tried to kill him. However, he has no time to analyze his feelings as his mother, who he defeated before in Baltimore and another vampire attack father and son. If Eli and Gabriel fail to unite against their common enemy, they will both die.
The key to this fabulous paranormal thriller is that Jenna Black’s vampiric America seems reasonable. The family feud story line is fun to follow as the adversarial relationship between father and son is made worse by how they feel towards Jezebel and the need to trust one another after five centuries of discord if they are to survive the European imperial invasion. Paranormal romantic suspense fans will enjoy Ms. Black’s latest Guardians tale (see Secrets in the Shadows)
