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Book Review of Children of the Vampire (Diaries of the Family Dracul, Bk 2)

Children of the Vampire (Diaries of the Family Dracul, Bk 2)
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My Sister - In the flickering gaslights of Vienna a brother watches - as a woman of alabaster beauty, his sister, takes two lovers at once. Then she pours her passion into the most forbidden act of all ... My Brother - In the streets of Amsterdam a young man, the secret lover of his brothers wife, is whisked into a waiting carriage for a long journey into darkness and reunion with his father ... My Family - They are a family bound by an ancient curse, one generation pitted against another, taboos shattered, their firstborn's blood sipped from a silver chalice. In his stony fortress waits Vlad the Impaler, while his heir, Arkady, cries out to his sons: "Let the curse end with me!" ... Children of The Vampire ... In this terrifying, brilliantly imagined novel, Jeanne Kalogridis returns to the same dark, erotic territory she visited in Covenant with The Vampire. Once again she explores the breathtaking battle waged in the heart of the Family Dracul - as the innocent take up arms against the monster ...