Ive certainly been pleasantly surprised by some authors in the past year or so, but Ive also found myself groaning through a morass of cliched dross. As a reader, I tend to find myself liking a book despite it including vampires rather than because it does, so any author trotting out vampiric tropes before me is facing some harsh initial hurdles indeed. Perhaps Im showing my reviewery age, but Im quite the jaded cynic when it comes to all things vampire-related. But things quickly become complicated when one of Jenns own family betrays her, and when her little sister Heather is kidnapped by a fearsome gang of blood-thirsty vamps, and Jenn finds herself facing down her greatest fears, and foes, all at once. Working as part of a team of butt-kicking comrades, its Jenns duty to go about dusting any of the fanged and the fabulous.

Eighteen-year-old Jenn Leitner is one such hunter, having stepped into the role after a rigorous, Tarantino-worthy training schedule at Spains Sacred Heart Academy. So formidable in fact, that the developed world is slowly crumbling beneath the onslaught of these dastardly folk.īut where there are vampires, theres always a vampire hunter, or in this case, a team of them. In fact, they have a bit of the ol world domination on their minds, and that, combined with an insatiable blood-lust, makes them rather formidable foes.

However, unlike the vamps in the Sookie Stackhouse books ( see our reviews), the nocturnal critters in Cursed Ones arent sexy, and they arent especially friendly. Well-regarded paranormal writing duo Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguie, best known for their Wicked series, have returned with a new series in which the cursed ones, the blood-lovin folks of the world, have had enough of behind-the-scenes living, and have made their presence known to the world.

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