Vampire Vow

Vampire Vow harkens back to vampire literature where the vampires are evil. Victor chose a life of darkness after being rejected by Jesus as a lover (yes, that Jesus). He kills through the centuries, eventually choosing the life of a monk as a way to kill those who will not be missed. But, Victor is depraved - he doesn't just kill, he wants to defile. So, he takes young monks as his lovers, then casts them aside. First in an original series.

Not your everyday vampire book. Victor,a roman soldier falls madly in love with Jesus, pre Christ. Jesus rejected any relationship but not for reasons you may think. To get even, Victor became a vampire in order to seduce and corrupt young men and thereby destroy the church. The book leaps ahead to the present where a monk, Brother Victor,enters a small monestary in rural Tenn. Here Victor begins his quest with lust, hate and Victor's twisted version of love.

I am not sure why I finished this book. Victor is one angry man/vampire. He is always angry and I was shocked that Michael had feelings for him. I presume, because I am trying to make sense of it all, that Victor's anger represents the repression felt by gay men, certainly gay men of faith, and represents anger toward strict Catholicism. Victor eats or rapes everyone he encounters. He is a pure predator without any redemptive qualities. Perhaps the author was indeed effective since I so loathe the main character. I simply cannot fathom that this is a trilogy.

A Roman soldier, frustrated after being rejected by Jesus, takes out his rage and frustration on the Jews and is forced into escaping punishment by becoming a vampire. Two thousand years later, he looks for a suitable "mate." Fun concept, but the delivery seems a bit muted; the sex lacked passion and I had zero sympathy for the narrator/main character. If it was a bit more campy, I'd have liked it better.

I couldn't put this book down. It took me a day and a half to read. Vampire Vow is about a Roman Officer named Victor. After falling for the young Jesus and being rejected he is turned into a creature of the night. The story skips to present time where Victor lives his life as a monk. The monastary he lives in is a pefect cover for his alternate lifestyle.

There is no lack of charecter or charecter description in the first of a trilogy novel. The Author really gets descriptive with the little noir details which makes this novel worth reading. I highly reccomend this to anyone who is a fan of vampires.

Michael Schiefelbein, a Ph.D. in English who also studied 10 years for the priesthood, decides to write a book. It is about a Roman officer, Victor, who falls desperately in love with Joshu, now known as Jesus. After being rejected by Jesus as a lover, he is overcome by grief and madness and is ultimately guided by a mysterious woman into becoming a vampire, who would rage in the centuries to come against Joshu and his god.

This sparked my interest for various reasons. Foremost is because I was interested in how a man of the cloth ultimately wrote gay vampire erotica. The plot and themes are pretty clichéd; the immortal who never finds rest, substituting earthly "forbidden" pleasures for the tranquillity of death, or in this case: show more paradise. Victor turned out not to be the colourful character I had hoped he would be. He is not Milton's Satan, but rather a static, rejected monster with a human mask. I don't understand the significance of the investigation into Victor's victims for nourishment, which played a large part in the book. For a vampire who has lived more than 2000 years, why is this a significant event?

In conclusion, I would say that the book is a let-down. It's not actually boring, but it doesn't really amount to anything in the end either. The characters were dull, and the plot and themes clichéd. I had hoped for more. show less

Ooo this book is naughty! It has a roman soldier/vampire in love (lust really, heavy lust, with heavy breathing and heavy hands) with Jesus Christ. And then he kills like everyone, blah blah blah. But I still didn't think it was all the good, to be honest, despite sounds OMG so awesome.