Dryl Eerett Eerett itibaren Trinidad, Duitama, Boyacá, Colombia
This is the story of Aidan the Reluctant Vampyre, who was 'made' against his will 200 years ago. He hates being a vampire, especially now since he's met Neely the Human, and has been searching for a way to become human again. His twin sister, Maeve, does not understand; she willingly followed him into the vampire world and has embraced almost everything about it (she does miss the sun). And then there's Valerian, vain and arrogant and beautiful. There are no real surprises as the story progresses towards its HEA, but it is creatively done and keeps the reader's attention. This is a very strong 3*, but didn't rise to 4* for me.
In the first chapter she moves to Cape Cod and persuades a local fisherman to drop her off on an island filled with seals -- how could I NOT love this! It is a nicely written book about a woman who takes a year off from her marriage and moves into a beach house on Cape Cod. She was once a successful author of children's books but her collaborator has moved and she needs an income so takes a job in a fish store and takes up clamming. I have to say I really identified with a lot of her thinking even though our lives are very different. But her feelings about independence, attachment to family and its obligations, conflicted feelings about sex are all things I've been thinking a lot, too. Some of her ruminations got a tad tedious but it was easy enough to skim those. Overall a very thoughtful, lovely and rather unusual book about being a woman "of a certain age."
Listened to the "audioplay" version. Thought it was pretty good, and nice to fill in a gap in the dc continuity I missed when I was too busy reading secret invasion. Some great moments and some facepalms, but that's how comics are.