Review: The Vampire's Warden

Title:   The Vampire's Warden
Author:   S.J. Wright
Genre:   Classified as Paranormal Romance however there is no HEA ending.
Book Size:   201 pages/2905 KB

He moved. It was a flash in the moonlight, a blur of motion like I’d never witnessed before. No human had the capacity to move like that. When I found myself face-to-face with him there in the meadow, I knew without a doubt that the journal was authentic. I knew that my grandfather hadn’t been crazy at all. Because a foot away from me stood a vampire.

I tried to like this book. Really, I did. But I found the story confusing without a solid idea of who exactly is Sarah's love interest. At first you're lead to believe it's Alex. But then the interest shifts to Michael. Throw in a sister who's character fell flat and a housekeeper who we don't get a clear picture of, and the reader is left with pure literary chaos.

The least favorable aspect for me was the ending. To be classified as a romance, which the author has clearly done, the story must end in a HEA or HFN at the least. This is neither. Please - don't pass your work off as a romance when there isn't any romance or the proper ending!

WARNING: cliff hanger without an ending. (Which totally sucks.)

This confusing tale meanders around one flitting thought after another which string the reader along as we wait for it to get better. A redeemable factor for the author is an interesting concept of Vampire jail, called caretaking, which could have been so much more.

The book needed an editor to go after numerous and repetitive punctuation mistakes. I admit to being bored and skimming over large sections of the book to find the next interesting scene and yet lost no translation in the story.

I would not classify this book as an adult romance but as a regular YA paranormal story.

* 1-Star Rating