Midnight Blue – Nancy A. Collins
A omnibus collection of the first three Sonja Blue novels:
Sunglasses After Dark
In the Blood
Paint It Black
Vampire hybrid slayer’s mental reintregration.
Sonja Blue follows in the tradition of Blade, but her unfortunate torture and medical intervention incident comes at a much later age. Attacked by a vampire she managed to avoid the whole vampire demon thing and ends in a hospital, and then an asylum.
This leads her on a pretty dark psychological journey after escape, and given she is immune to most vampire weaknesses in this universe – sunlight, holy water, being really stupid because of transformation which she escapes, becoming a vampire slayer is a natural for her after it is suggested.
No romance here, in this dark and twisted supernatural world with many other monsters other than vampires.
3.5 out of 5
Supernatural team-up.
When you have a psychic detective vampire slayer, what else would happen? Team-up, sure, nookie too if they happen to be of the appropriate flavour for each other.
With a boyfriend around Sonja is not quite as nasty and unstable, and the search for monsters, especially the vampire that tortured her to start with, and her own parents continues.
3 out of 5
New Orleans sex scene stakeout.
Sonja, with Palmer still around is getting closer to tracking down Morgan, the vampire she would most like to do away with. This supernatural search leads her to the sordid and seedy clubs.
Vampires can control the minds of human, and hence their pleasure centres, making them extremely plaint sex toys as well as prey.
So, much sex and death on the way to a showdown, and hence this novel is a little more twisted than the previous.
3 out of 5
3 out of 5
