(No pressure then!)ĮPBR:What is your favourite vampire book and or film?īS: Favourite book is a given – it has to be Bram Stoker’s Dracula which I have read over and over again. All the television vampire series were American too, until Toby Whithouse came up with Being Human. The market suddenly became awash with paranormal romances from about 1992 onwards, but they were all American. I caught up with Berni Stevens for a few Questions and this is what she had to say:ĮPBR:What Inspired you to write dance until dawn?īS: My inspiration initially was the desire to put London on the vampire map so to speak.

I can not wait to see what Berni Steven’s writes next. They took turns rescuing another from various spots of bother. What really struck me about Dance Until Dawn was the fact that Will and Elinor were equals. This book really alters the misconceptions of what you may think vampires really are. He is a cross between an old-fashioned gothic hero and an empathic modern man. Will is such a delicious character. He has a very tragic past but he still maintains his humanity. Berni Stevens writes in such a way that there are no distractions it is just a singularly driven piece of written art. Most of the early part of the book is just Ellie and Will in one room getting to know each other and those kind of claustrophobic scenes are very well written. There is some truly wonderful dialogue in the book and that is what carries it to a new level.

She is totally confused and that confusion leads to some of the most humourous one liners. I found Dance until Dawn positively seductive! Ellie wakes up in a new gothic world of vampires. But this time, Will might just have bitten off more than he can chew.” As the most powerful vampire in London, he’s used to getting what he wants. He’s spent the last year loving Ellie from afar and now he’s finally able to be truthful about who and what he is. And to make matters worse, she’s found that an aversion to blood and a fear of the dark aren’t very helpful – especially when you’re a fledgling vampire. The only problem is, since waking up in a three-hundred-year-old vampire’s leaky cellar, Ellie’s been very much dead. At twenty-five, West-End dancer, Ellie Wakefield should be having the time of her life.

Doctor January by Rhoda Baxter