I'm here to tell you that after reading only the first few pages, I was hooked. "Simplicity" held me spellbound throughout the whole story. I could not put this book down!
Mr. Dirschel's talent for storytelling so effortlessly glided me with his expert choice of words into his makebelieve world of a vampire. A world of stunning horror and shocking intensity, and yet he still managed to weave in just the right mixture of beauty and romance to make his story more than just another horror story. I truly believe this is one of the best stories out on the market today.
"Simplicity" is a story that oddly I find myself still thinking about almost two weeks after I finished reading the book. And now I strangely find muself looking forward to this writer's next novel.
Simplicity is a story of the condemned of society being damned to hell, but in a twist of fate some are turned into vampires: "Hell is a horrible place but at least for the vampire, it does go away."
Dirschel does a brilliant job of allowing the reader to not only glimpse into the bowels of hell, according to his fictional accounting, he offers the age old story of the vampire life in a unique way; through the lives of two people who not only don't seem to fit in, they demonstrate that sometimes in hell, the "hell" they thought they'd experienced while still living pales in comparison.
This horror novel seems to be a documentary of the fallen amongst the living who fall even farther on the other side, even as vampires. Preying on the underbelly of society by night, they are condemned to a "living" hell of tortuous acts against their feeling selves by day.
At times the reader will want to read with only one eye open, much like the way horror films are often watched. The reader may even fell nauseous reading the pages of descriptions of the torture of the day because it is so well crafted.
All the senses are brought to life with the reading of this journey into hell. And yet it is a love story of a different nature, so creatively woven it defies the reader to not believe it actually took place, knowing full well that vampires do not exist...or do they?
The reader will be drained and have much to ponder about how they live their life: a powerful deterrent to not wanting to be condemned to hell everlasting is found within the pages of this phenomenal book Excellent.
