{"id":121,"date":"2013-07-08T18:42:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T18:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patriciaesposito.wordpress.com\/?p=121"},"modified":"2024-02-12T00:34:12","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T00:34:12","slug":"five-star-review-for-vampire-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patriciaesposito.com\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"Five-star review for vampire novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twolipsreviews.com\/content\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=6964&amp;Itemid=36\">Five-star review of Beside the Darker Shore<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><i><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Excerpt:<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><i><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">&#8220;Beside the Darker Shore<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><i>\u00a0<\/i>is different. It is not your usual vampire tale. There is no sex in the book, per se, but it is one of the most powerfully sensual books I have read. When humans offer their blood to vampires, the eroticism of the bloodletting has no need for sex. When Stephen is in the throes of his addiction for donating, he is lost to everything but that act in that moment.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Ms. Esposito <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">beautifully conveys the addiction and the yearning for the giving through her words&#8230;<\/span>I liked the characters. While there are villains in<span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<i>Beside the Darker Shore<\/i><i>,<\/i> they are not the stereotypical villains of vampire novels&#8230;<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">I hope<span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Ms. Esposito<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">\u00a0is planning a sequel or prequel. There are many unanswered questions and these are characters that have not left my mind since I finished the book.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Available at all major booksellers. <a href=\"https:\/\/books2read.com\/u\/bwQa7a\">Universal Buy Link.<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five-star review of Beside the Darker Shore Excerpt: &#8220;Beside the Darker Shore\u00a0is different. It is not your usual vampire tale. There is no sex in the book, per se, but it is one of the most powerfully sensual books I have read. 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