The Turning – Erin R. Flynn

I’ve enjoyed some of Flynn’s books, so this was worth a try, but it didn’t work for me. There was too much rage and too little story.

Kelly Murphy, a newly-graduated doctor about to begin her internship, is recruited (attacked and turned involuntarily into a vampire) by an elder-vampire admirer. Most of the males she meets from that point are powerful, interested in her sexually, and have no understanding of boundaries. Kelly, in turn, makes a lot of bad decisions. (Her best friend tells her on a number of occasions that she is oblivious. So the decisions don’t come from bad motives, but they increase the likelihood of bad outcomes.)

Kelly turns out to have super powers. As a human, she already had a psychic gift. She is even more exceptional as a vampire. In story terms this primarily enables her to get into far more trouble than a fledgling vampire should be able to get into. There was a good story trying to be told there, but it was swamped by the bad-relationship cycle.