The Avid Reader

I received a free copy of the book from the author for my honest opinion.

Joseph O'Reily is a college student who just enjoys life and going to school to earn his degree. Joe is a geeky guy who loves Star Trek, Harry Potter, Batman and a lot of other fictional characters. He likes roll playing and hangs out with a bunch of his friends at least once a week to do a little roll playing. Joe has also fantasized about being a vampire for most of his life not ever knowing that one day he would meet a vampire and have his dream come true.

Becoming a vampire is not the only dream that Joe has had. He has dreamed of and wanted a girlfriend but I guess with him being a geeky kind of guy it just has never worked out or he probably just has never met anyone whom he felt he could trust or that would like the same things that he does. But Joe is in for a big surprise one night while at a bar when a very good looking redheaded woman ask him to go home with her for a wild night together.

Joe starts getting this craving for blood and wonders what is happening to him. This blood craving also makes him start to question his new girlfriend Cassandra. He starts to wonder who and what she is and what she has done to him. The blood craving starts to really get next to Joe because the only thing that he knows of that craves or drinks blood are vampires and they are not real. Vampires are only fictional characters in movies or books or are they?

But by the time he gets around to asking Cassandra if she is a vampire and if she has turned him into one he has started to deal with it and thinks it is kind of cool. Beside he doesn't want to lose the only girlfriend he has ever had either. But Joe is a real cool dude who is laid back and just accepts whatever life deals out to him most of the time that is if it is no big deal.

Joe learns later on that Cassandra has turned him into a vampire because she needs him to help her kill her husband and maker, John Snow. John Snow was a very mean person when he was alive and is even meaner dead. He can and does get away with a lot more as a vampire than he did as a human. For years now all he has done is terrify Cassandra and killed any human that she has turned into a vampire so that they could help her kill him. But old Joe may be a little bit geeky but he also knows how to fight and use a sword as well. With all the lessons that Joe has taken in his life ole John may just be in for the surprise of his life.

I liked that the only thing about Joe that changed after he became a vampire was the fact that he liked to drink blood or more like had to drink it to survive not that he really wanted to drink it he just had now choice. I like to that he kept his humanity too. He still knew and wanted to do what was right. Even though he was a new, young vampire he didn't want to hurt or kill a human or an animal and he had self-control where some other young vampire may not or didn't want to have control. I liked how when a human was turned into a vampire they still acted or did the same things as they did when they were human whether they were good or evil.

I would recommend The Newfoundland Vampire to anyone who loves to read about vampires and would like a new twist on vampires. The Newfoundland Vampire will take you down a road filled with love, madness, evil, killing with a little bit of humor thrown in.