One of the most pleasing aspects of Blood and Chocolate is Klause's writing style which is lyrical, atmospheric, and highly imaged.

The first sentence of the novel immediately pulls us into the book with its seductive language: "Flames shot high, turning the night lurid with carnival light." Throughout the novel, everything we see and are told is filtered through the consciousness of Klause's protagonist Vivian. However, Klause is not limited visually by this first person point of view, as she not only enables us to experience Vivian's journey with her but to see Vivian, the other characters, and the world about them as well. She describes their hair, clothing, facial expressions, movements, and the atmosphere with great detail. We know that Rafe, one of the Five, sports "a goatee and mustache" and that he has "thick, long brown hair." Klause draws our attention to Vivian's beauty at many...