Brooke C. (brookereviews) reviewed on 2/5/2009 + 50 more book reviews

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Kerry never knew that vampires existed in her town. She thought they were just a slice out of fiction. Until one night she risks going back to the Laundromat where her little brother has left his favorite stuffed animal. She's caught by surprise when three grown men come in dragging behind them a college student. They claim he is a vampire, and that no one is leaving the Laundromat until dawn when the sun will hopefully fry him up. We come to know him as Ethan after Kerry manages to get him free and escapes with him. He's dark and secretive, but is grateful for Kerry rescuing him so he takes her home making sure she is safe.

By chance they run into each other again after she gets off work. She wants to know what happened after he dropped her off. Did he call the police? Are the bad guys gone? He says he took care of it and that her name will never come up. When he takes her home and the place is trashed with a message for Kerry written on the wall calling her a vampire, and stating that they have her family she freaks and asks Ethan for help.

Thus begins a long journey through the next couple nights setting up a plan, discarding a dead body, burning down a house, and sleeping in the old subway system. Everything comes to a head when the man holding her family hostage comes to kill Ethan.

This was an older book published in 2002, and it was okay. There have been so many great vampire books released that it's hard to measure up. There is a total lack of dialogue which I attribute to the brooding vampire not wanting to speak every time Kerry would ask questions. But by the end she is in love with him (all over the course of a couple days) of course, but decides she cannot be with him. So she leaves

Which brings me to my question. Why don't the girls ever want to be changed? Fictional characters never want to be turned or bitten, while I'm sitting here reading and shouting (in my head mind you, I'm not that crazy), "Let him bite you! Let him change you", because, well, I would want that. Wouldn't you?

Anyhow, Companions of the Night is a short read coming in at 212 pages, so it was fast read for a Sunday afternoon.

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