This is no "sparkly" vampire novella but a gory blood soaked look into a viciously sadistic vampire named Ronan. The author has written this prequel to her new series to introduce readers to this particular character and to explain whom his love interest will be, however in doing so she leads the reader through senseless killing after killing as Ronan slakes his voracious hunger for blood which in turns leads to a final confrontation with his maker Keelin.I have no wish to read further in this series, Ronan is too gory even for a jaded reader of vampire stories such as myself.