The nights was crips and sweet like apples... Moonlight lit the gazebo, tracing it with silver, but a shadow crept inside, independent of natural shades. She tense... she saw someone within. A figure detached from the shadows... the she saw his face... he noticed her and froze like a deer before a gun. They were trapped in each other's gaze. His eyes were dark, full of wilderness and stars... With a sudden acher she realized he was beautiful. The tears that prickled her eyes broke his bonds, and he fled, while she sat and cried for all things lost.Zoe is wary when, in the dead of night, the beautiful yet frightening Simon comes to her house. She has seen him before in dark alleys, but there is something soothing in him that persuades her to invite him inside. Simon seems to understand the pain of lonliness and death, Zoe's brooding thoughts of her dying mother.
Sitting close to Zoe, Simon reveals his mystery to her. He, too, often thinks about death, for he is one of the undead, a vampire, seeking revenge on his brother for the gruesome murder of their mother three hundred years before. Simon has been following this fiend through the centuries and across two continents, tracking him by the bloody trail he leaves behind, but Christopher has always escaped. Does Simon dare ask Zoe to help free him from this lifeless chase, his insufferable lonliness?
A suspenseful and romantic first novel, The Silver Kiss breaks new ground for young adults. Annetter Curtis Klause exquisitely conveys the eternal truths of life, death, and love in the shivery page-turner that will keep readers awake and on guard.
Grade: 43%
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