{"id":6120,"date":"2018-12-14T16:24:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T20:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/?p=6120"},"modified":"2018-12-14T16:24:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T20:24:25","slug":"book-review-everdead-by-rio-youers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/book-review-everdead-by-rio-youers\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Everdead by Rio Youers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Everdead\/dp\/B00CPAMSY4\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1544676782&amp;sr=8-10&amp;keywords=rio+youers&amp;linkCode=li3&amp;tag=monstlibra0f1-20&amp;linkId=92c0720dd0d4a67eb327a77bc4a23269&amp;language=en_US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=B00CPAMSY4&amp;Format=_SL250_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=monstlibra0f1-20&amp;language=en_US\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=monstlibra0f1-20&amp;language=en_US&amp;l=li3&amp;o=1&amp;a=B00CPAMSY4\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Everdead<\/em> by Rio Youers<\/p>\n<p>Audible Studios, 2013<\/p>\n<p>ASIN: B00CPAMSY4<\/p>\n<p>Available: Audiobook, MP3 CD<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Luca, a nomadic vampire, is being pursued by the ancient original vampires. He finds himself on the beach front resort island of San Antonio,\u00a0 where youths around the world come to drink, dance, and party.\u00a0\u00a0 Two vacationing partiers, Toby and Cass, come across Luca as he kills a young girl.\u00a0 Furious at the interruption, Luca hunts down the couple to exact revenge.\u00a0<i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>While Youers goes into Luca&#8217;s origin tale, he doesn&#8217;t try to paint him as a sympathetic victim. Rather, Youers shows Luca as a man who hounds another vampire to turn him, knowing full well that he will have to kill people to survive.\u00a0\u00a0 Youers does a good job of fleshing out the character of Toby, who has finally overcome his insecurities in approaching girls to finally meet Cass.\u00a0\u00a0<em>Everdead\u00a0<\/em>is a competently written vampire tale. It is currently not available in print format but is available in audiobook format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everdead by Rio Youers Audible Studios, 2013 ASIN: B00CPAMSY4 Available: Audiobook, MP3 CD &nbsp; Luca, a nomadic vampire, is being pursued by the ancient original vampires. He finds himself on the beach front resort island of San Antonio,\u00a0 where youths around the world come to drink, dance, and party.\u00a0\u00a0 Two vacationing partiers, Toby and Cass,<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/book-review-everdead-by-rio-youers\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[685,2474,3606,83,2629,940],"class_list":["post-6120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-audiobooks","tag-book-review","tag-everdead","tag-horror-fiction","tag-rio-youers","tag-vampire-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6120"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6124,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6120\/revisions\/6124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}