a big nothing
I was compelled and interested for the first half - and that's about 300 pp or so - I like the early seventies in Europe period - but from then on I was reading out of duty to finish, and it never picked up. The problem is she really does not have an interesting take on the vampire - there's no payoff. And her skills as a writer are serviceable for popular fiction (all the "good" characters are wise and wonderful, their eyes twinkling, the food is always delicious - I'm a writer myself, I know how you can fall into this, but it shouldn't be published - the "bad" characters are just evil) without the thrills or inventiveness. She's got nothing. Don't waste your time.