Mozart's Blood Review Preview

My 81 year-old mom is visiting me, I have to do yard work using correct body mechanics, and then we are off to a wedding on a beach for the child of one of my cousins. I am not particularly close to my family and am merely her driver in this so I will try to be subdued until my mother has sated her need to be amongst her people. They are very nice but we haven't hung out since we were kids. It will be nice to see my cousins after so many years.

I am in the middle of, or the first third, of Mozart's Blood, which has a very unusual, atypical, premise. I don't know where it will all mesh, but the unique premise is enough for me to keep reading it.

The author, Louise Marley is a former pianist and opera singer indulging her dramatic side through writing. And she has written a lot; with nine books in print, on the first page of her site.

In this book there is a vampire opera singer and her werewolf assistant. She was turned during Mozart's life time. Somehow he was born a werewolf during the Renaissance. I don't want to spoil it though. Like I said, I am waiting for it to come together. And, it is a very different kind of werewolf/vampire story. I don't think anyone has ever come up with it before, so it is worth my time simply for that reason.

While my mother is visiting I have given here my Sookie Stackhouse books to read. I don't know if she is trying to try me, but she keeps saying, "This can't be real, vampires aren't real." I say, "Mom, it is fantasy, speculative -- pretend..." Argh!

I hope to have the book finished by tomorrow.  Then I can give you the real scoop -- until then I can only give you the above review preview!!