By Sandy Amazeen Nov 28, 2007, 2:03 GMT
After a brutal attack in The Becoming, bounty hunter Anna Strong has been having her fair share of difficulties while attempting to adjust to life as a vampire, not the least being the need to find a human companion for reliable source of sustenance. It is becoming increasingly difficult to hold on to what remains of her humanity while keeping a working relationship with partner David who is seriously considering his girlfriend’s advice to scrap their business partnership. Anna finds her life as a Watcher, an enforcer charged with dispatching rouge vampires growing harder to live with as it cuts into her work as a bounty hunter. Her resolve to break up with DEA agent Max, her human lover from the pre-vampire days disintegrates as Anna becomes enmeshed in the plot against his life spearheaded by FBI agent Foley working as a mole for Martinez the drug lord Max tried to bring to justice. It will take every bit of Anna’s abilities to overcome the sort of evil only a couple deranged humans can muster to save Max, David and maybe herself, but at a cost.
Anna is the kind of vampire that will leave readers cheering, she’s smart enough to embrace the change without wallowing in self-pity or looking for ways to become human again. The difficulties that come with trying to maintain working relationships with friends and coworkers without revealing what she has become are believable yet don’t take center stage away from the snappy action and plot twists that will hold readers interest to the last page.
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Jeanne SteinNov 28th, 2007 - 17:37:54
Thanks so much both for reviewing The Watcher and for your kind words. Anna and I thank you-- Best, Jeanne C. Stein
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Jeanne SteinNov 28th, 2007 - 17:37:54
Thanks so much both for reviewing The Watcher and for your kind words. Anna and I thank you--
Best, Jeanne C. Stein
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