99 Coffins: A Historical Vampire Tale Novel ☑️ Recommended
Laura Caxton Vampire Series Book 2
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Review
Now just so you all understand, this is a sequel and I did not read the first book in the series. This book was recommended to me, handed to me in fact, without the information of it being the second book of a series. While I was reading it I kept thinking, is this sequel because there seems to be a heck of a lot of back story that is being mentioned but not explained. That being said, at no point was I confused or did the plot rely on that back story, so all was good. I did enjoy this novel quite a lot but I have to warn you, it is gruesome throughout. The vampires are not the sophisticated, aristocratic, gorgeous beings that every women swoons over. No, these vampires are monsters. Scary, gross, blood sucking monsters.
The detail is explicit. In one scene a vampire rips the arm off of a victim and proceeds to suck the blood from the limb. It’s really graphic, really gross and very entertaining. I like being scared and it’s not often that I get stressed out while I’m reading but those scenes really freaked me out! The protagonist is a kick ass heroine, which I love to see. I guess now-a-days it would fall into the realm of urban fantasy. The vampires are housed and lying dormant in an underground cavern and are resurrected after being discovered by an archeological team. There is an interesting link to Gettysburg and the civil war. A very unique take on the gruesome historical past. The ensuing battle takes place in the town, involves the military, police and our heroine Laura Caxton. It’s a pretty spectacular climax.
The ending ties up loose ends as well as leaves the reader with a hint of more to come. I liked it. It would make a great movie.
Summary
A dark secret buried beneath our bloodiest battlefield
Laura Caxton vowed never to face them again. The horror of what the vampires did is too close, the wounds too fresh. But when Jameson Arkeley, broken and barely recognizable, comes to her with an unfathomable, unholy discovery, her resolve crumbles.
Arkeley leads Caxton to a tomb in Gettysburg recently excavated by a local archaeology professor. While the town, with its legendary role in the Civil War’s worst battle, is no stranger to cemeteries, this one is remarkably, eerily different. In it lie 100 coffins—99 of them occupied by vampires, who, luckily, are missing their hearts. But one of the coffins is empty and smashed to pieces.
Who is the missing vampire? Does he have access to the 99 hearts that, if placed back in the bodies of their owners, could reanimate an entire bloodthirsty army? How did the vampires end up there, undisturbed and undiscovered for 150 years? The answer lies in Civil War documents that contain sinister secrets about the newly found coffins—secrets that Laura Caxton is about to uncover as she is thrown into a deadly, gruesome mission of saving an entire town from a mass invasion of the undead…
ISBN-10 0749954310
ISBN-13 978-0749954314
Publisher: Crown
Release Date: December 31, 2007
400 pages
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