The little interjections into the story itself, by Gabriel or his vampire captor, was a nice touch, I thought.*** SPOILERS ***The religion is basically Catholic: instead of a cross, there's a wheel the protagonist wonders why the symbol of torture is used as a sign of faith (i.e. It wasn't entirely linear, which I thought was well done under the guise of Gabriel refusing to tell certain parts of his life story in sequence. I found the male protagonist to be interesting, though he is a literary stereotype (see more details for all points under SPOILERS).I found the latter half of the book a bit tedious, as it seemed just one awful, violent, barely-survived-that episode after another.That all said, I liked that the story often switched between the now - Gabriel telling his vampire captor his life story - and the story itself. The gender roles also don't deviate from the traditional - men fight, women heal. I forced myself to finish out of sheer bloody-mindedness rather than real desire.The religious aspects are, for the most part, Catholicism with a few inconsequential changes.
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