Post 4: End of Gilda

The ending that they gave us in the book left the reader a fantastic and absolutely wonderful gateway to continue the story of Gilda through their own imagination and in that respect it creates a powerful tool to continue their own personal journey with Gilda. The book takes you on a whirlwind of adventures with this curious woman who defies the stereotypes of your typical African-American and your typical vampire. The reader is able to live through the character as she goes through the ages, showing the problems in the life of a black woman who has survived every era of oppression in American history and the era of American prosperity in the future. She feels the pain of her contemporaries as well as the pain of her immortal family as she struggles to keep her identity secret, to keep her moral consciousness in check and to prevent danger from befalling anybody who she deems worthy to live. Through this character we are able to see and relate to this woman, as she journeys through the planets last days, as she runs from the people who try to kill her and her kind and as she realizes that she is free. this ending allowed the reader to create their own, making this book much more interesting despite its early connotations of typical female. lusty romance novel.