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When the news media reports that best-selling author Richard Hunter has died during a fishing trip, it left his only child with mixed emotions. David Hunter has never had much of a relationship with his famous father, but now that he has inherited his entire estate he decides to go on a quest for answers. This leads him to a small town in Mississippi where his father lived most of his life. David decides to move into the house hoping to reconnect the past with his father's, but that is not all. There is a reason why he was lured to Mason's Corner and he is about to fulfill his destiny. He does not know it yet but he is about to become a general in a war against an ancient evil where there can be only one winner. David is way in over his head, but unfortunately he has no choice. If he wants to save himself, he will have to fight for mankind. Kyle Coiraut is more or less in the same predicament as David. He never met his father and he wants to reconnect with him, but there is a twist. His father is one of the undead and Kyle is a vampire as well. For the last 160-plus years Diallo has been under a vampiric hibernation after losing a major battle all those years ago. Now Kyle wants to connect with his daddy and start his own personal Armageddon. This rematch battle between good and evil was decades in the making and now it is about to come to an end at Mason's Corner. It will be a dark corner, indeed. I am not a big fan of vampire novels and I was reluctant to start reading this book. However, I must say that I was impressed with Brandon Massey's book. This is not a horror tale involving the creatures of the night -- DARK CORNER is a lot more than that. It is a story about fathers and sons and an individual's search for identity. Both David and Kyle are trying to learn who they are and Massey does a superb job with their characterization. Vampire novels are a dime a dozen where writers often seem to borrow from others to tell their tale, but that is not the case with this author's work. He did not need to borrow from Bram Stoker, Anne Rice or even Joss Whedon to provide his own take on the vampire story. Massey makes it his own and provides his own perspective to these 'misunderstood' creatures. DARK CORNER was a pleasant surprise.
Reviewed by Angel L. Soto, February 2006
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