Starring an ancestor of a character from Dracula

When I came to read this book I had actually forgotten the author's summary on here/amazon/etc and I think that I probably enjoyed it more due to that, I found the story more engaging and thus enjoyable by learning about the motives of the characters more gradually.

The main character is an Albuquerque deputy sheriff named Quincey Morris, he shares his name with an ancestor that was one of the people with Van Helsing that killed Dracula in Bram Stoker's story, although he doesn't know that latter point at first even if others do.

His life dealing with more regular crimes (like his twin brother being a drug dealer) takes a sudden shift when Morgan Stregocia, a strange new client (the Strega of the title) of his realtor wife, comes to town and people start to die in mysterious ways.

In any vampire book the supporting cast tends to be a little more transient than most and that is the case in this one too, but anyone who featured more often was fairly well designed and introduced even if the inclusion of a believer in vampires was a little obvious.

The narrator generally did a good job with the narration, his delivery was clear and the main characters were suitably distinctive, but this was more of a narration than a performance with a decision seemingly being made not to attempt all the various accents of the supporting cast.

Overall, this was another enjoyable book from Richard Bamberg, but if I had to guess I would think this one had been written earlier than his Wanderers series as the author seemed more assured with his character in those than this one.

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Not For Me

This book is predictable and unoriginal, in many ways, but original in others. The author's writing style was OK but inconsistent. The story whilst aimed at an adult audience at times seemed to have been written with teens in mind.

The characters of Quincy and Father Jacobson were basically good people and I wanted to know what they would have to face, whether they would survive, whether would they succeed or fail etc for this reason I continued to listen to the end.

Skyler Morgan the narrator did his best with a story which for me missed the mark totally.

I was given this audiobook as a gift and am voluntarily writing my review

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