reviews_and_ramblings | Bridge Over Troubled Water by Vivien Dean

Ten years before Brady lost his lover Cole. College sweethearts they are all for each other till the night when Cole was murdered, lost forever... or not? Actually Cole was turned into a vampire and the first thing he did, after his awakening, was searching Brady, his lover. But Brady was a cop and his duty was to kill the vampires, not to shelter them, and so for ten years he refused to let Cole re-enter his life. Till the night when an almost finished Cole knock on his door and asks for help. He swears and swears that he is not there to kill Brady, that he is not killing anyone as vampire. Can Brady trusts his former lover? Cole is no more the college kid he loved, the body is the same, but there is no soul in that body. So is thinking Brady, but also him is no more the same: the old Brady would immediately give shelter to Cole, he would open his arms and help Cole to fight his nightmares. And instead now Brady is an hardened man, apparently without feelings.

This is a good vampire story. Pretty original since for a time, being vampire is really a problem to the carrying on of a relationship: usually in romance, when one of the lover is turned, the other is more than happy to have him back, even if as undead... better undead than dead! Here instead, Brady refuses Cole for TEN years! He is pretty hard, and I actually felt sorry for how he treats Cole: I can really see poor young Cole, scared of what he has become, being rejected also by the only man he loved, the one he believed he would help him. And how badly Brady treats Cole when he finally allows the vampire to enter his home: like a tainted man... All right Brady is the all too good cop, and he is suffering, but still, he is too harsh.

But when they finally get together, the resulting sex scene is sweet and romantic, not too much graphic in detail, but very good.

One of the most interesting vampire romance I read lately.

http://www.amberquill.com/AmberAllure/BridgeTroubledWater.html

Amazon Kindle: Bridge Over Troubled Water
Publisher: Amber Quill Press, LLC (December 30, 2008)

Waiting Reading List: http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=waiting reading list&view=elisa.rolle