Danse Macabre is the second book in the Night’s Dream
Series.
The four main characters are back – Roselyn, Shane, Eliot
and Dryden.
Dryden likes to role-play as a vampire. He has a whole clan
that is in on it with him. They believe they are vampires, but they also
believe that real, bloodsucking vampires are a myth.
That is, until Dryden is converted into one. He isn’t like
the rest though. He doesn’t feel the need to kill people in order to get blood.
He would rather drink from an animal than from a human, but that is not how it
works in the world of the undead.
When he escapes captivity from his makers, they set out to
hunt him down and will collect everyone he loves in the process.
Shane gets mistaken for Roselyn and is captured. Roselyn,
Dryden, Eliot and Noah must all work together to try to save her before the
vampires end up killing her.
As Dryden feels himself becoming more bloodthirsty and
violent, he must find a way to halt his urges before anyone close to him is
hurt.
I feel like there was better character development in this
one compared to book one. They all had their own arcs and personalities.
Whereas, in the first book, everyone meshed together for me; it was hard to get
connected to them.
Seth was an extremely likable unlikable character. The reader
isn’t supposed to like him at first, and he is written well to make you
appreciate him.
The plot and flow of the story made a lot more sense to me
in this one than the first one did. I was able to follow along pretty well. It
also helped that I knew who the characters were from the first novel.
Even for a book about vampires, I was a little surprised by
the amount of blood that was in it. I am not used to the genre though, so I don’t
know whether it is more or less than the norm.
3/5 stars
