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REVIEW: Mark of the Vampire Queen by Joey Hill

Dear Ms. Hill:

042521932101mzzzzzzz.jpgI am primarily a comfort reader meaning that I ordinarily like to read the same sorts of books but occasionally a very good writer can move me outside of my box and enjoy a story that does not fit into any neat categories. You are one of those writers. You take me places I ordinarily would not go.

Lady Lyssa is in the end stages of a vampire disease called Delilah virus. It is a virus that will eventually turn her mad and kill her. A Vampire Council meeting is upon her and she, through the force of her own will, is holding back the disease so that she can get an agreement from the other vampire rulers that would provide asylum to vampires fleeing from one territory to another. It is to protect her own people; her last act before she becomes dust. Jacob, her servant has taken the third mark and his life is now tied to Lady Lyssa’s, in all ways.

There are alot of threads running through this story, almost too many. There is Jacob’s relationship with his brother Gideon, …