Diana DeRicci

Cobblestone Press

The Vampire Oracle: Harmony by MG Braden

ISBN:   978-1-60088-290-6

Recently engaged, Kara Staten and Marc Brodeur are in love, and Kara has a brand new business. Life is good. When things start to unravel, they struggle for the harmony they once had.
Unbeknownst to Kara, Marc’s a vampire trying to live a normal life. When her skincare salon produces a special serum that results in several fatal love bites, she doesn’t know where to turn. Hoping to keep her safe, Marc runs away. As their lives spin into separate paths, they find that what could tear them apart is the one thing that will ultimately keep them together 

Read an Excerpt Content: Erotic Romance This title contains explicit language and graphic sex

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This was a different kind of story, but I felt it really could have been written with a little more depth into the characters. Such as how Marc lived (walked, moved, and slept) in what seemed to be daylight hours, even though he worked at night. Also he was known for consuming regular food. I didn’t mind that this broke the traditional mold for vampire stories. The lack of reasoning left it one-dimensional at best without explaining it at all. The supporting cast seemed on the mark and her tenaciousness to run her own business and see it succeed told me a lot about her.

I did like the way he “rescued” the situation at the end. However, the loss of memory because of inconsistent feeding could have been dealt with a little stronger. I also felt the Harmony card held little sway on the story. It felt as though it was written in as a prop. If it had meaning for the story, it went right over my head because other than her resemblance to the card, it wasn’t explained in the story why she held onto it, or what it meant to Kara.

I’d say this story should have in truth been a good bit longer to give more meat to the characters themselves. The suspense element of the mysterious bites had me until the very end. I honestly thought it was over-amorous couples until the point where people began to die. The means definitely supplied the suspense to the very end on that score.

Overall, the story is a quick read, romantic sensually written erotic. I read it straight through and enjoyed it quite a bit.

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