Katherine Villyard's Immortal Gifts
Mixed feelings on this one. On the one hand, a cool Jewish vampire dude who loves cats (and has a Wiccan veterinarian wife). On the other, it kind of implies that much of the world's antisemitism, including the Holocaust and our current neo-Nazi nightmare, is due to one ancient and crazed antisemitic vampire. I also wish this has been edited a little bit more—a couple times things are repeated, and I think some of the Judaism 101 could have been cut back (do we need to be defining latkes or chuppahs?). And the protagonist makes some truly bizarre choices. Yet I kept reading because I liked the characters' relationships, and I liked the sort of philosophical discussions of being Jewish and being a vampire. The end was melodramatic, but also hilarious and sweet? Y’all, I don’t even know. B+?
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A review copy was provided by the publisher. This book will be released in February.
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