Rating: 
Summary: INCREDIBLE!
Review: This trilogy is the BEST series of vampire books that I have read. I am a rampant Anne Rice fan, but Ms. Kalogridis has captured a terror and eroticism that Anne Rice could not. Because of it's diary form, you feel closer to the characters. Also, I think it seems even more terrifying because of the close relating to the actual historical content. I have just finished the series today, and I want MORE! Ms. Kalogridis, if you're reading this, please write more books! She is a brilliant writer! I have not been this gripped by a series of novels in a long time! Mere words alone cannot express how I feel about this series of books.......if you love vampire stories, you will love this, I promise, no disappointment!
Rating: 
Summary: A little askew...
Review: Well the majority of this book was breathtaking, awesome, and just plain great. Arkady has matured, you are given an insight to his brain and his emotions like never before concerning his wife, Mary and his son as well as his ties to Vlad and his sister. He is tortured, heroic and beautiful in this book, a character of pity and beauty at the same time. Smooth and caring and almost human at times, Arkady is the highlight of the novel.After Arkady leaves the story, however, the book takes a somber note, just lilting down towards the end of the installment itself. If this were my work, i would have seperated it into two installments instead of three... i think thematic and drama-wise, it would have worked better. I am not complaining at all, but although the first book was better as a whole, i am giving this one 4 stars instead of 5. I was so heartbroken when Arkady left the story (trying not to give away anything here) and the book just seemed to fall through after that. I will have to find the third one and read it to get the complete story though i guess!
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