I liked how all this played out, so I won’t say much more here. However, Jonas needs to find friends and allies that he can trust. It would be expected that nothing in Jonas’ world is what it seems, but everyone is running a plot of their own, so you really can’t trust anyone or anything.

Especially the hunters, otherwise normal humans who seem largely drawn from the ranks of veterans, who find out the hard way that PTSD and TBI aren’t the worst experiences of their lives. There is also a bit of overlap with Tom Clancy style thrillers, and military scifi, particularly in the fairly dark, self-deprecating sense of humor the book as a whole displays. In tone, this book very much seems to be in the older Heinlein juvenile mode: some romance, no sex, a lot of growing up, and a crazy adventure. While there is a sexual element to vampirism in Jonas Black’s world, Jonas himself is far too busy trying to grow up and find his place in the mad mad world he finds himself thrust into to explore it much. Anne Rice’s vampire novels were immensely popular because they offer sexual thrills. Tim Powers’ Stress of Her Regard is a hell of a book, but I find it harrowing precisely because it accurately represents moral dissolution from the inside. Going back to adventure fiction’s Gothic roots, vampire stories are often metaphors for the perils of unbridled lust. One of the reasons I avoid vampire books is that they make me uncomfortable. While in general I try to avoid anything labeled urban fantasy, and vampires in particular, this marks the second time I’ve been pleasantly surprised by such a book. BODDEN 300 PAGES PUBLISHED BY AMAZON (APRIL 10, 2015) ASIN B00VZ7ZBK6 BLACK FALL: THE BLACK YEAR SERIES BOOK 1 BY D.

Black Fall by D.J. Bodden