DAMNATION

Review

DAMNATION - Nathalie Gray

ISBN: 1-4199-0843-9

March 2007

Erotic Futuristic Romance

Rated E-rotic

London - Future

To fight the wars, work in unsafe conditions and serve in any way required, vampires with white-blond hair and electric blue eyes were bio-engineered. To keep these perfect servants in subjugation they are fed an enzyme --- necessary for their very existence --- which is altered to further control them. But, anytime a creation is given fangs that creation may eventually rebel and turn on its masters. There are two levels of the city: tall spires connected by lacy spider works of sky bridges where the prosperous ones of society live and work and the ground level...

Dawn Eindhoven is an executive assistant. She is late, and in order to get home she must traverse a route on the ground level. The last person she expected to meet was Helios, the first of the vampires out of the test tube --- two hundred years ago. Helios knows Dawn. The company she works for manufactures an element of the enzyme needed to keep the vampires alive, an element that could free his kind. He means to force her to give him the codes to her company's labs, but after meeting and spending time with her he finds that he wants more from her and cannot go through the last part of his plan, which is to kill her.

His decision to keep her alive and for himself, is not popular with his friends the other vampires and human allies who have joined him in revolt. Dawn, who has never had sympathy for the vampires, learns many things she did not know and finds herself wanting to help Helios.

DAMNATION is a tense thriller. In a world of fear, torture, brutal inequality and bleakness, tiny sparks of hope and love take root in Helios and Dawn. Will their efforts free the vampires from slavery? Or will they all perish in the fight to secure freedom? The writing is tight, gritty, biting and describes a most untenable have and shadowy have-not society. Nathalie Gray is a master of suspense and wild, steamy lovemaking. DAMNATION is not an easy concept to accept and it is yet another example of why man should not play God. It will make a reader think about it long after the last page has been turned. I recommended it.

Maggie Anderson