Additionally, Lost
Hunger gave me the feeling of reading a diary, and the impression that the author was struggling between a
written exhibition of raw longing and emotion, and maintaining a proper and
lady-like presentation. It works well that way at times, because the
read-between-the-lines conflict of the author finding her voice as a writer
runs down the same rapids as Daenara Tereus (Robinson's main character) and
her passionate longing to become a vampire, longing to know the face behind
the unknown shadow forever watching her from behind every corner. The
real point I'm trying to make goes even further, for after reading the
book I find it evident that there's plenty of natural talent in Robinson's
blood to make her one hell of a writer in the same way Daenara is revealed
to have vampire blood in her, all along. The
similarities are apparent, and I'm sure Angel as well as her accumulating
number of fans wouldn't disagree.
It's a great
work for a first novel in that some of its flaws are responsible for some of
its magic and appeal in what could otherwise have been a redundant clichι of
just another novel about vampires dwelling in human society. What
we've got here, on one hand, is the work of a young writer who takes her
career more seriously than a lot of seasoned writers I know, and on the
other hand we've got a work shining not as a whole but with examples here
and there of how well Robinson paints a picture, or how she develops a
character, how she takes her time with Daenara's thoughts. Robinson's
writing often shares some of the same characteristics found in the beauty,
charm and grace of a classic silver screen love story just because of its
simplicity. I recommend that Angel take more risks
with her writing approach, see to it that her editors don't overlook so many
grammatical and punctuation-related errors, and go wild with the written
word, the storyflow, the drama, and the gritty instinct to strip down and
tell it like it is in her head.....raw and uninhibited.
In the story,
Daenara is haunted by personal horrors and mysteries past and present:
the death of her father, the enigma of her childhood, an endearing guardian,
a vampire who wants her as much as she wants to be like him, watching her nightly
from within the shadows. She begins a journey into an eternity of
darkness where a vampire lord wants her dead and she wants to live......undead.
Not bad at
all for a first attempt, and with sequels to follow, I believe just merely keeping
an eye on Angelina Robinson would ultimately be to sell yourself
short when looking for something fresh in a genre where freshness is hard to
find.........don't just keep an eye on her, read her work and
watch it blossom. The Hunger Series promises to be more than merely a romantic
vampire epic, but a series of progressive endeavors from a writer learning
to exercise her remarkable vision into something even darker, even
more expressive, and all the more wonderful.
