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Given the scope of vampire depictions throughout literature, “Lover Eternal” is more Nora Roberts than Bram Stoker’s “Dracula.” Ward seems to gleefully move from sex scene to sex scene, sparing no opportunity to make the reader as squeamish as possible...
...attempting to create portrayals of wild, animalistic sexual encounters, Ward delivers passages that are completely devoid of sensuality...
...Lover Eternal” also falters whenever the story strays away from Rhage and Mary. When Ward follows either John Matthew, who we learn is a vampire yet to transform, or the Lessening Society, the writing is pitifully boring...
...that could help defuse the fraught racial politics of the rebuilding process. Those grow out of the fact that many of the city's most flood-prone areas, like the Lower Ninth Ward, are home to a substantial number of its African-American residents, who look long and hard at any sign that the city may forbid them to return. The city has been eager to discourage piecemeal redevelopment, in which a handful of residents here and there try to re-establish themselves in vulnerable neighborhoods. But after Mayor C. Ray Nagin hinted last year that he would consider declaring...
...Ninth Ward Lower Ninth Ward...