Darn good read. Not your average vampire story.

Wow. Just...um. When it started, it felt a bit like being lost in fog - but then again, the characters are lost in a fog so it was an authentic experience, in retrospect. About the halfway mark, I couldn't have put it down if I had wanted to (which I didn't). Now...well, now to figure out how to voice this rather unexpected and phenomenal bit of vampire mythos. Hmm, this might just be the first vampire literary fiction I've read. Wait - of course there was The Historian (absolutely excellent). B...

Motherless Child has all of the heart and insight into the messy tangle of human emotions and relationships that Hirshberg’s work always does. His eye for telling, sometimes quirky detail and flair for language also comes standard. But here there’s more humor (much of it dark) and the whole thing is flying along on a lightning bolt of a plot. Plus, as advertised, this is not just another piece of vampire fiction. It’s as brutally honest as it is brutal, the one feeding off the other. It is, in s...

Being tempted by the praising reviews I had great expectations about this book, and was disappointed to find that I could not relate to it as much as I would have liked. The greatest problem I had to face was the writing. The author uses very short sentences and most of the time you have to guess things from between the lines because they are not described. This reduced writing may appeal to some, but I really had to struggle to follow along. Only towards the end had I acclimatized enough to enj...

*ARC copy was provided by the publisher in exchange for honest review.*Motherless Child has an unusual twist on the paranormal aspect of vampires and introduces them as they should be - soulless, blood sucking monsters without any glitter and unicorns. Story begins when Natalie & Sophie go out to the bar and see their favorite rockstar Whistler. Book doesn't go into the details of how the night plays out but when the girls both wake up, they are covered in blood and have flashes of the night tha...

http://vampchix.blogspot.com/2014/08/...Angie's review:This is one of the most intriguing vampire novels I have ever read. Not only does the book take a fresh look at an old archetype, but it also examines complex emotional relationships.The book follows two young, unwed mothers, Natalie and Sophie, who after a night away from their babies, wake up to find themselves the victims of an attack. They are aware of what they have become and they know that in order to protect their children, they have...

I received this book for free through Goodreads First Reads.I generally do not enjoy novels about vampires or werewolves, but I thought I'd try this book because of the favorable reviews. The writing is dark and the story is compelling. I can see this story being developed into a film.

This is number 123 of 500 signed and numbered copies signed by Glen Hirshberg.Cover Art by Vincent Chong.This is book number 8 in Earthlings Halloweens series.

A fantastic blending of genre horror and literary fiction. Beautifully written even if somehow I felt at arm's length from the characters. The ending was satisfying but made me sad. Probably just my momness. Highly recommend.

Since one of the characters in this book is really into old gospel/soul/blues music, I looked up the title of the book, and sure enough, it's also a song title. And it's one of the loneliest songs I've ever heard. I'm still thinking about it days later. That's fitting for this book, because all the characters in it feel bone-chillingly alone. Natalie and her best friend Sophie, who end up on the wrong side of vampire fangs and then must fight against both the changes taking place in their bodies...

This was absolutely fantastic. I heard of this because it's re-release was mentioned on Tor.com, and was delighted to find a copy in my local library. The story is dark, gripping, and emotionally engaging in a deep, satisfying way. A story of family, of mothers and sons, love and loss and inner resilience. And scariness. Lots of different kinds of scariness.

Bad girl Natalie doesn’t immediately realize that her wild night with pop singer The Whistler and best friend Sophie has done her damage forever . That’s really forever rather than a lifetime; she has been turned into a vampire. The Whistler hopes to make Natalie his eternal companion. As he sees it, she is his Destiny. He turns Sophie just to give Natalie someone to hang with while she figures out what has happened to them both, while they finish their transformation.When Natalie does realize w...

Could not stop reading, great take on the vampire story.

The ending for this novel was so jaw droppingly amazing, shocking and horrifying that I immediately read the entire book a second time. I only read this book because in a lousy review for some other vampire novel the critic said that the only recent original vampire tales were Let The Right One In and this novel Motherless Child. So with this book being mentioned in the same breath at LTROI I HAD to check this out and it was well worth it. Now I have to read everything that this man has written....

Excellent road trip novel featuring 2 female vamps(both moms). Funny, sad and gritty. Totally recommended.

Motherless Child does a wonderful job of presenting readers with the darker side of vampirism. When unmarried mothers Natalie and Sophie leave their trailer park to let off a little steam at a local bar; they have no idea that a night with the sexy and mysterious lead singer, Whistler will leave them changed.Things really start to get good after the two ladies realized what they have become, and leave their babies and the trailer park behind.This is a book that will appeal to female readers beca...

I really liked this one especially because the bff's name was Sophie=)

I kind of went into this one with some skepticism, mainly because at this point I'm about as dubious about vampire novels that claim they're for people who don't like vampire novels as I am of vampire novels in the first place, but Hirshberg earns the tag. Mainly by writing like a motherfucker. His style, at least here, reminds me of a more oblique/poetic Charlie Huston; the narrative moves with the same kind of speed and momentum, and similarly I was afraid on just about every page that somethi...

I'm really bored with vampires. I was sure I could never take another one. Leave it to Glen Hirshberg to create characters that yank me right in from the get-go. The vampires here are no reluctant vampires found in nearly every book - even George R.R. Martin's excellent Fevre Dream has a requisite "vampire who tries to get along with the humans." Hirshberg's vampires are predators, pure and simple. Natalie and Sophie are small town young women who have been turned into vampires after a night wit...

I feel the need to explain why this is the only Hirshberg book that won't get 5 stars from me. See, I'm not much for vampire novels. Not in the "oh man, vampire novels are so lame... Twilight sucks... blah blah blah" kind of way. More like in the "I'm not good with blood" kind of way, and this book made me physically ill. Seriously: Bloody scenes + coming down with a severe illness = me throwing up. I guess that's a testament to what a great writer he is. Hirshberg's descriptions of vampires bei...