Reviewed by Dan
TITLE: The Pining of Kevin Harding
AUTHOR: Devon McCormack
PUBLISHER: Wilde City Press
LENGTH: 205 Pages
BLURB:
Kevin Harding wanted an exciting life. Now, he’s a vampire and wishes he could go back to his average, boring one in the suburbs. His master is furious that he refuses to hunt, but Kevin knows it’s only a matter of time before he caves. The longer a person is a vampire, the more compliant they are to their master’s will. When Kevin decides to give the hunt a try, he’s kidnapped by vampire hunters. Rather than endure their severe torture, he agrees to help them kill his master. The hunters’ plan goes horribly awry, and they flee the scene with Kevin. But they have to restrategize quick. The longer he’s away from his master, the more painful his life becomes. He craves his master. He hungers for him. He pines for him. And as they get close to enacting their plan, Kevin isn’t sure if he’ll be able to follow through.
REVIEW:
Kevin Harding is your typical high school senior, just months from graduating. He has a scholarship to a prestigious acting school and life is good, but he wants an exciting life. The old adage “be careful what you wish for” comes true in his case. Suddenly he is awoken by a vampire who bites him and turns him into a vampire.
The vampire, who Kevin knows as “Master” also has two other protégé “children”, one, Alyssa, who has been with him for hundreds of years, and the other, Dax, who has been with him for two years.
Kevin is fighting the conversion to full vampire and does not want to kill a human being by drinking their blood. So far Master has been bringing him recently dead bodies to feed off when he has to feed. Finally, he gives in and goes on a hunt with Dax to a gay bar. Their vampire pheromones make both him and Dax super desirable to the men in the bar, and one in particular catches both their eyes and their senses, because he smells Wonderful!
Kevin and Dax meet the man who smells so good to them and they leave with him after a bar fight. Only one problem, he is secretly a vampire hunter. Dax escapes, but Kevin is taken prisoner, and tortured at the hands of Ride, a second vampire hunter. Morgan seems more sympathetic to Kevin, but Ride is the boss.
What follows is a tale of vampire masters, their protégé “children”, the vampire hunters, and the ever increasing something that is growing between Morgan and Kevin.
I very much enjoyed this book. The book is very well written, and the characters are believable, as long as you believe in Vampires! I liked it a lot and would highly recommend it to both the Young Adult, as well as Adult markets. I particularly liked that the author incorporated a section of how the vampire stalked Kevin through his Facebook profile. The vampire told Kevin that because he had conveniently listed his school on his page, it was really easy for the vampire to hang out near the school and follow Kevin home. Since this book is probably primarily marketed to the Young Adult population, that is a good warning. Although there might not be vampires stalking you on Facebook, there could be predators. Thank you Devon for including that section.
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Adding it to my wishlist.Thank you for the review =)