There is a reason why McCammon stopped publishing this book and its not becuase it is good. I am a huge McCammon fan and I have read every book he has written. I could never get a hold of this book and it was always on my most wanted list. Too my suprise, if not horror, I couldnt even finish the book as it was so ridicuosly bad I could not believe it. McCammon must have done one draft only of this as this is a very poor work.Overall the sound of McCammon and vampires together sounds great but the execution was awful. If McCammon wrote this book "today", I feel that the book would be great but unfortunately he wrote the book when he was still very green.