Vampires, are they all around us,
as some books and movies suggest? Is that cute-but-scary-looking little bat
fluttering about your face actually a vampire? A vampire ready to emerge as human, bite your neck and drink your blood? Or worse, make you one of them? Is
the sun already down? Dare we go anywhere after dark? But hiding in your house
won’t help. Vampires are hugely strong, and will get in no matter what. You
have a gun, you say? That won’t help either, not unless you have silver
bullets—oh wait! I believe silver bullets are for werewolves.
About your best bet against a
vampire is a wooden stake driven into their heart, or, just wait for the sun to
come up and hope the vampire will stupidly step into the bright sunrays. A
vampire? Commit suicide? Good luck with that.
David Slomas’s novella, Boi Meets
Grl, is all about vampires. It’s a fun romp through the dark clubs and alleys
and souls of Montreal and Quebec
City . The hero and heroine (Alex the guy, Josephine
(“Jo”) the girl) I would put in their mid-to-late twenties. These two spend
their free hours in what I would call an eighties “punk” club, in the novella
it’s called a Goth club. Whatever. It’s a dark place with black lights, and
people dress…well, probably not how I would dress. The club is where Alex
and Jo meet...and then keep meeting, and forming their new friendship.
Jo eventually gives Alex a necklace
made from black pearls that she found in an antique store. Unknown to her it belongs to Count Weldheim and he wants it back!...which sets the stage for
these two kids to have to learn some survival skills.
The count has two main
servants/slaves, Valic and Bahuck, who he sends out to retrieve his necklace. The
count also has a whole bunch more servile vampires living in his mansion on the
hill in Quebec City , with a
basement full of humans whose blood these…beings, live off of.
A book about vampires would not
normally be my choice, were I buying something off the shelf, but this digital
version caught my eye. I have read one other book about vampires, far in my
past. It wasn’t my favorite book of all time but it scared me and I still
remember it. And while reading this novella I couldn’t help but think of the
movie with George Clooney, Dusk till Dawn. I will never forget the most beautiful
vampire in that clan, Salma Hayak.
Boi Meets Grl is written in
first-person, and gives us a contemporary look at contemporary vampires. Hmmm,
I said that as if I believe they really exist. Maybe they do. And may they live
forever to keep us well-filled with blood-letting vampire literature.
David's book is available for a digital download, free April 11, 2013, until April 15.
Thanks for reading
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