Fantasy -- 3 stars
Matthew de Clermont meets Marcus MacNeil during the American Revolution and saves his life by turning him into a vampire; but Marcus' adjustment is not a smooth one. Meanwhile, in modern time, Matthew and his witch wife are discovering that their twins are more special than they thought. ----- This book is populated by the same characters that were so vividly alive in A Discovery of Witches and throughout the All Souls Trilogy, but here they are so faded that they are uninteresting. While the original trilogy involved time travel and a frantic search for a missing ancient document--and a purposeful connection of the two--this book doesn't really seem to have a point. It almost reads like a prequel. Much of the focus is on Marcus and his life in the late 1700s, but it never develops a reason to connect to Marcus today. The switch between then and now seems pointless--more like two separate stories that someone at the printer collated improperly. The tidbits about vampire development are interesting, but not enough to lift this book above the mediocre.
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