I’m going to be frank: I didn’t enjoy this book, but I was prepared to give it a pretty average rating until about 65% of the way through. It was at this point that The Vampire of Kings Street really unraveled for me and started to feel like the author had lost control of the plot and her characters. 

 

It’s just a very uneven book. It has a terrific premise, but the execution just isn’t there and the book really could’ve used another pass with structural editing and developmental editing. Radhika, our protagonist, is fickle and mercurial, which isn’t endearing in a character who’s a lawyer and very annoying in how Asha Greyling has written her. Evelyn More, the titular vampire of this story, spends so much time off-page we end up learning most of his story in a large info-dump, which makes the author’s clumsy attempts at romantic chemistry between Radhika and Evelyn even more painful to read. 

 

The third act is just a series of misadventures and events that felt like they came from nowhere, and not in a good way. They came in from nowhere, with no foundation laid or foreshadowing told. I found myself very confused and saying, “How the heck did we get here?” 

 

I hope this novel finds its audience and I wish Greyling the best for her next book. 

 

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File Under: Historical Fantasy/Historical Mystery/Mystery/Vampire Fiction