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Dawn Madison is a Hollywood stuntwoman who has had her life turned inside out and upside down. The mother who abandoned her and her father many years ago is alive and well, reincarnated (to use the term loosely) as a leading Hollywood starlet. She has sold her soul for youth and beauty, a "child" of the vampire Benedikte. Benedikte loved Eva. Now he loves Dawn and wants to make her his. She wants no part of it. Dawn is strongly attracted to Costin, who is leading the fight against this particular group of vampires. There is a layered hierarchy to the vampire world, and the closer one is to Benedikte, the stronger one is. Costin has attracted a group of people, not all human, to help him with his fight. Some of the people around him seem to be ghosts, although this is never really clear. For some reason, all the "ghost" friends are female and have some past with Costin. Eva has turned her former husband Frank into a vampire, out of some twisted desire to have her family with her. The same family she left years ago in order to pursue her career in Hollywood. Eva has some issues, and loyalty isn’t her strong suit. Frank has no desire to be a vampire. He is interested in someone else, someone that Eva helped kill. As Dawn hangs out, fighting her attraction to Costin, she is compelled to find out more about him and about what’s going on. Every time she finds a new piece of information, she gets more and more confused, more frustrated with her lack of information. BREAK OF DAWN is accurately titled; everything Dawn finds out works to break her confidence, her self-esteem, and her faith in her ability to do much of anything. As I was reading BREAK OF DAWN, I got very tired of this. I felt the author had far too many plot twists and turns, more than I wanted or needed. I felt like I was reading one of those political conspiracy novels, where absolutely nothing is what it appears to be and absolutely nobody can be trusted. I suppose if I had known that going in, I might not have been so annoyed. But I thought this was your basic "kill the vampire" book, with an interesting romance built in. I also got a little bored with everyone having some major flaw. Yes, I know people are flawed. Some more than others. Everyone in BREAK OF DAWN seemed to be in need of major long-term therapy for multiple issues. BREAK OF DAWN is part of a trilogy, which is part of a two-trilogy story arc. I’m not inclined to read any more of this story.
Reviewed by P.J. Coldren, January 2009
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