I must admit, when I first started reading this book, that it struck me as a rip-off of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles. The protagonist, David Parker, is a new, sensitive, arts-loving vampire, unsure of all his new powers. I immediately thought of Louis.
But, happily, any similarities ended there. In fact, Romkey has written an original vampire tale, to which he has added several sequels.
David Parker is an unhappy lawyer, freshly divorced, terribly lonely, when he meets a beautiful and mysterious Russian babe named Tatiana. She is a vampire, but Parker doesn't care, because he loves her. So she makes him a vampire, but has to leave immediately because her enemies have tracked her and she must lose them. So David becomes a vampire with no one to show him the ropes.
Until he meets a vampire named Mozart (that's right, that Mozart) in the Nevada desert, who offers to be his mentor. Mozart instructs Parker to fly to Paris, and Mozart will meet him there in six months.
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