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Blood and Sunlight: A Maryland Vampire Story [Kindle Edition]

Jamie Wasserman , Diana Luciana Barbu
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Melanie would love to believe in fairytales. She’d love, in fact, to believe in anything. The twenty-three-year-old college dropout is stuck — stuck in a dead-end waitress job, stuck in her hometown of Ellicott City, Maryland, and stuck with a boyfriend who likes to play dress-up as a vampire.

Vampires. Her world and her reality are turned upside down when she encounters the real thing. Along the way, she meets Lucas, the would-be vampire slayer, his father the sheriff, and ultimately the vampire himself. Melanie learns that fairytales can come true, and evil isn’t always where you expect to find it.

About the Author

Jamie Wasserman is a native of Ellicott City, Maryland. His work has appeared in The Rhysling Anthology, Exquisite Corpse, Star*Line, Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Strange Horizons, Flesh and Blood, Gothic.net, Weber Studies, and Magma (UK) among many others. He has received numerous honorable-mentions from The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and was nominated for a Pushcart by Lite: Baltimore's Literary Arts Newspaper. Blood and Sunlight is his first novel. For more information about the author, visit www.penumbrapublishing.com.

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 414 KB
  • Print Length: 266 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1935563327
  • Publisher: Penumbra Publishing (2 Aug 2010)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B003Y74M2S
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  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #157,503 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
fab tastic 18 April 2012
By nicola
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
got this book for my kindle what a fab read constantly wondering what will happen well worth a read :)looking forward to more of the maryland stories :)
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Refreshing Read. Hope there's a sequel. 5 Oct 2010
By L. Haynie - Published on Amazon.com
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I took a chance and I'm really glad I did. It was different from the other vampire books out there. For one thing it was really well written. Sad, but true that this isn't always the case. It had a great flow, and the characters were well developed. The plot even had a nice surprise ending. Very enjoyable and I hope to see more of Melanie and Keenan in the future.
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A vampire story not to miss 26 Aug 2010
By Benjamin K. Ethridge - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
Lately I've been very skeptical about vampire books, games, movies, etc. When I was younger, I loved the monster and the myth, and wanted more. Then the market became saturated with the material and I lost interest, especially when some of the "good" stories weren't good at all.

That said, Jamie Wasserman's BLOOD & SUNLIGHT, is an example of why one should never close his/her mind completely to a subgenre. The novel starts with some wonderful atmospheric touches, which enhance the mood of the piece and really bring a reader into the Maryland setting. This is not easily done so fluidly in popular fiction. People are impatient nowadays and it normally takes some seriously dense prose to bring about mood. Here, the naturalistic description naturally flows into a very modern story. Wasserman is definitely a writer I will read as his new work becomes available.

But this book also treats each of its characters with keen respect. The main character, Melanie, is flawed. Big time. She often doesn't do the right thing and you have to keep reading on just to see what she's going to screw up. By the halfway point in the book, she is posed with a problem that is large for anybody, but it's EXCEPTIONALLY large for someone like her. It isn't a problem that is easily solved, by any stretch.

Blood & Sunlight is a quick, smooth read and a wonderful infusion of Vampire, for someone like me, the vampirely challenged. I recommend it highly. Although it is summertime right now, reading the novel I often felt in the throes of autumn, during an unexpected spell of rain. That is where this book's heart is.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Some good, some bad 30 Mar 2011
By A. Miller - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
As an avid reader of all things vampire, I am torn on this novel.

The good: First, I am partial to this novel due to the fact that I'm not only from Maryland, but went to college at UMBC which is a stone's throw from Ellicot City. I enjoyed the fact that this novel seemed more "real" with it's characters/scenes- Melanie is far from the perfect, virgin female lead so common in many vampire series; the sex scene between Melanie and Lucas was anything but romantic and exciting unlike many novels where each romantic scene is impossibly long/orgasmic/satisfying.

The bad: Melanie seemed to be a flat character with no growth- she realizes her faults but does little to correct them or change. I just didn't grab onto this storyline like I do other paranormal series. Maybe I'm in need of more instant, shallow gratification? Or maybe this novel was too all-over-the-place for me to actually like the characters and plot. I'm willing to give a 2nd novel in this series a try, but only if I have nothing better to read.
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