Yarrow

Well...
This is a story of an author who gets her inspiration from another world which she visits in her dreams, and a vampire. Just as the description says.

I hate her. I don't understand her reaction and reasoning at all, it makes me want to slap her, and I don't understand how Ben and Peter can find her in any way charming, attractive, delightful. If this was written by a worse author, I'd call her marysue and give this book one star... but - Charles de Lint... sigh I like his books.

There are too many characters named in this book. Only a handful of them are important. I wish Charles had used only first name or last name or a job title of most of the secondary characters. We don't need to know Albert's last name. We don't need to know the name of the person who found his body. We don't need to know Lisa's last name, or the names of her parents. All those names just make it harder to follow. There's a LOT of POV jumps in this book. Some of the POVs are characters's who appear only once and are basically uninteresting.

I like how Charles dropped the names of authors and books :-) I got a couple of books to my TBR list :-D

I like the idea of this book. I like the villainy of the villain. Brrr.... I like it how Charles managed to raise the odds over and over again, make the bad things happening worse all the time, and keeping the interest and tension... he lost me a little when Cat had her breakdown and was a total a-hole, and the ending was... bleh. But - it was ok. I didn't hate it. I might have given it three stars, but I feel like I have to be fair, and she was a marysue.