Romance among the elven vampires. What more could you want?! Really enjoyable, well written, well plotted and inventive in a small world. Very much looking forward to reading the rest of the trilogy and finding out where the author is taking this.

We follow both populations of elves, the 'normal' ones, living contented lives of plenty, following a sanctimonious creed, of true love and respect to all living things, even those they slaughter for food; and dark elves, cursed long ago and expelled in a Bitter War, who subsist on the fringes of the land, surviving only by their cunning, drinking the blood of the kobolds to get by - even they have honour. We follow a pair of young lovers newly caught in the joy of each other. And also the leader of the dark elves who has a plan to regain their city they lost so long ago - but it requires a bit of luck and sacrifice.

It's just all nicely woven together and enjoyable reading. The characters have charisma personality and sparkle, the plot makes sense with motivations that are believable ,and all set in a world that makes sense. ( )