So when I last left off we were just in the prologue, describing how the author came about these "journals". Now's where the story starts. The author goes into extensive detail describing Abe's early life in the wilderness with his parents. The author does an amazing job conveying the loneliness and desparity that there is out in the wild; but also the stark contrast it all is to Abe, a young, loving boy who cries and vows to never kill again after killing an animal for meat.
So years pass and Abe grows up, and he finally becomes aware of vampires because one of them kills his mother his father reveals. During this part of the story I get the feeling that Abe becomes more masculine and has a growing up moment. Not because he hits puberty necessarily, but he begins taking responsibility into his own hands and trains himself to fight the undead.
One of the most chilling moments so far is when Abe's dad reveals to the young boy that his mother was actually killed by vampires. For the whole beginning of his life Abe's father always denied supernatural, but we learn why. We learn details about how Abe's grandfather was killed by a vampire in front of Abe's dad. This part kind of creeped me out just from the way the vampire was described. It was a young looking vampire, and very pale. Yea, that's where the comparisons with Twilight stop. The vampire had jet black eyes and a kind of drawn back face, not to mention fangs. He also is enormously strong, for he lifted up Abe's Grandfather and broke his neck.
So far this book has kept me extremely interested, and I hardly want to put the book down unless I have to. I really want the vampire hunting to start though, and I've been thinking how the story might end sinces Abe is killed in the theater by who everyone though to be a "man." So far this book has had enough dark humor, creepiness, and detail to keep me reading.
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