Interesting premise, but starts off slow and doesn't take off until almost midway through the book. An eight hundred and sixty-four year-old (fourteen year-old) vampire comes out of hibernation, only to drink the blood of a man with a prophecy for him. The girl needs him and he needs her. When he first notices the girl from the sketching on the man's wall and in the book he left behind, Will is ready to let it go until he realizes, forces beyond his control are throwing them together. Eloise is homeless, by choice, which is an odd circumstance at best. But she easily gets over the fact that Will is an "un-dead" and quickly trusts him with her life. She seems to trust easily.
The reader can tell from this book it's intended to be a series, as it ends with Mark, a young man we meet early in the story becoming part of what is to come. But I just didn't fall for how easily things fell into place. People were too easy to trust, information was too easily found and the relationships were too easily formed.
I wanted to like it and towards the end, I was fascinated by what may come, but not enough to buy the sequel.
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