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Claudette Melanson writes & edits in Kitchener, Ontario, with her husband Ron and four bun babies: Tegan, Pepper, Butters & Beckett. She graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania with a BA in English and an MA in Literature. She's wished to be a Vampire since age five. She hopes to one day work full-time as an author, since there are many, many books living inside her head.
In her spare time, she enjoys watching Japanese Anime and reading vampire stories....along with other great fiction. She is also very interested in good health and is an advocate of Ketogenic eating, using whole and natural foods. Her favorite foods are bulletproof coffee, cashew flour crust pizza and treats made with xylitol and almond, coconut or cashew flours.
Future dreams include writing many more books and spending more time with her son Jacob. Her biggest dream is to make Universal Halloween Horror Nights a yearly event with hubby and son. A Rabbit Rescue fanatic, she also hopes to help rescues all over the world save many innocent lives.
Reviewed by Kim Anisi for Readers' Favorite
Riptide by Claudette Melanson is the third book about the life of teenager Maura, who is slowly transforming into a vampire. Her father, who came back into her life after having left her and her mother before Maura was born, is the first vampire who ever existed, and his blood runs through her veins.
Unfortunately, her father had to leave Maura alone again - and also took her mother who had been turned into a vampire to escape death. While he trains her mother, Maura is on her own because her big love, Ron, was driven away by her father, and her best friends also had to leave her life temporarily.
One after the other, the members of Maura's father's coven come into her life - but not all want to protect her.
I started reading Riptide by Claudette Melanson right after I finished the other two books in the trilogy (they were so good, it only took me two days for each of them). While you could probably enjoy the book without reading the first two books, I would recommend reading them in the right order. They are worth it. I enjoyed that the characters were not flawless and perfect like the vampires in other books. Yes, they are beautiful, but on the inside each of them has issues. Maura is a believable character - sometimes annoyingly so! You want to slap her for the things she does. The vampires and other supernatural beings have interesting quirks and do not quite follow the stereotypes that exist about them in literature. You get drawn into the story right from the first page, and it is hard to get out of it again. The writing style is lovely, and it is easy to imagine all the surroundings and the actions of the characters. Definitely a good choice for people who love vampire stories!
