Valerie Hardin - Crimson Kisses - Page 2
© Linda Suzane
There felt like there was more to the story of Crimson Kisses, will there be
a sequel or are you thinking of expanding it into a longer novel?
I had thought of it and time will tell.
What are you currently working on? What is next for Valerie Hardin?
I am working on a gothic Christian eBook called Christmas Angel's
Celebration. I like to defy molds. Its going to be a children's book and
published by http://www.writers-exchange.com/epublish...
Also I am working on a teen horror novel with writer Jennifer L.B Leese.
Anything you would like the readers to know?
They can read my free children's story Grow Your Own Gargoyle Here.
http://www.magickeys.com/books/index.htm...
(I took time to read it and it is a cute and really enjoyable children's story.)
BOOK REVIEW
Crimson Kisses
By Valerie Hardin
Valerie Hardin is a goth poet and an artist, which is very apparent in her novella Crimson Kisses. The cover is one of the more interesting eBook covers I have seen and each chapter starts with illustration which is both artistic and disturbing. The atmosphere is dark and brooding. Crimson Kisses is a rather disjointed story written in vignettes, letters, diary entries with a poetic sparseness. It starts when Charlotte Galen is four and her favorite grandmother tells her that vampires are real. Grandmother Smith reads her a letter from her own sister, Sissy, a vampire who revels in being a hunter, and another letter from a vampire named Tassmand, who tells of the sorrow and horror of being a vampire. Her grandmother tells Charlotte that she barely escaped becoming a vampire herself and warns Charlotte that she must be very careful for the vampires will be after her.
Charlotte's mother discovers Grandmother Smith telling the small Charlotte about vampires and becomes enraged. There is no such thing as vampires. Charlotte is sent to the Bad Room, a room with no windows, a room where a murder was committed.
Soon Grandmother Smith is taken from her, sent to a nursing home. Charlotte grows up remembering her grandmother's words, but confessing to believing there are no vampires, in a family with a mother and sister who both hate her. As with many abused and unloved children, Charlotte spends her life trying to earn her mother's love by taking care of the sick and dying woman, sacrificing her own dreams and her morals to get the necessary money, while her sister Candy refuses to help.
After her mother's death, Charlotte's life reach a low point, when she contemplates taking her own life, and meets Tassmand. That meeting leads her into the world of vampires and to meet her own destiny.
