Reviews

Running Home by Julie Hutchings

katellis's review

5.0

I feel very lucky to get to read this before publication, and there were so many things I loved about this book! Julie brings a wonderful twist to vampire lore, and I was fascinated by the Japanese elements which filtered through. The prose is gorgeous, balancing richly gothic romanticism with contemporary humour and warmth, really bringing to life a very dark and intense story. Totally gripping!

tundragirl's review

2.0

This is not a good book. The writing is pretty awful, you get no sense of why the main character falls so hard for the man ... in fact you get no sense for why any of the characters do anything. The notes at the end say that the author wanted to use her love of Japan in this book. So how does she do that? By putting the origin of vampires in Japan and giving them a Japanese name. That's it.

And lest you think that this is yet another vampire book where the vampires glitter in the sun, never fear! In this one they ... smell like brownies.