Infinite Days (Vampire Queen #1)
by Rebecca Maizel
August 3, 2010: St. Martin's Griffin
"Lenah Beaudonte is, in many ways, your average teen: the new girl at Wickham Boarding School, she struggles to fit in enough to survive and stand out enough to catch the eye of the golden-boy lacrosse captain. But Lenah also just happens to be a recovering five-hundred-year-old vampire queen. After centuries of terrorizing Europe, Lenah is able to realize the dream all vampires have -- to be human again. After performing a dangerous ritual to restore her humanity, Lenah entered a century-long hibernation, leaving behind the wicked coven she ruled over and the eternal love who has helped grant her deep-seated wish.
Until, that is, Lenah draws her first natural breath in centuries at Wickham and rediscovers a human life that bears little resemblance to the one she had known. As if suddenly becoming a teenager weren’t stressful enough, each passing hour brings Lenah closer to the moment when her abandoned coven will open the crypt where she should be sleeping and find her gone. As her borrowed days slip by, Lenah resolves to live her newfound life as fully as she can. But, to do so, she must answer ominous questions: Can an ex-vampire survive in an alien time and place? What can Lenah do to protect her new friends from the bloodthirsty menace about to descend upon them? And how is she ever going to pass her biology midterm?"
Review
We are used to seeing humans becoming vampires. But what if a vampire successfully reverts into being a human?
Rebecca Maziel tells a story of Lenah, who was once a powerful Vampire Queen, who found herself desiring to become a human once more. The sacrifices she had to make to make it come true, drives her to attempt a normal life at Wickham. After just losing the love she had ever known, Lenah never thought she could find love in the modern age. But as her human life grows on her, the past she thought she could outrun finally founds her.
This was an interesting take on vampires. We all used to reading humans turning into vampires because that was the conventional, and it is seemingly impossible to turn vamps into humans again. Especially if they were like vampires for hundreds of years already. Even in the story, they were unsure of the success of the ritual, until Lenah's case.
It was funny to read Lenah's journey from being this vampire queen to a regular student. She had to learn the way teenagers talk now, the trends, and go to school. She was used to having her way but now have to adapt to things. She even gets to have some trouble in the love department.
But even if Lenah was reborn as a human, her vampire past remains. And it is seeking her out to get her back, even if it means destroying what she has right now.
The bits and pieces of hints all throughout the book foreshadow a deeper story in Lenah's transformation. And as if it wasn't enough, the ending was a surprise that will have you wanting the next book,
Stolen Nights
. Troubles and dilemmas ahead, and hopefully some action!
Len spends most of her time ruminating on her writings that never made it to paper; keeps sane by reading books and listening to music. She reviews most of them out of love and the joy of it.
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