Rating: Summary: No improvement Review: I think I preferred her last two books even though they were a mediocre rating. I think she's getting way too much publicity because she got published as a teen. I think she should put for characterization and description into her book, it's not very accurate to visualize. It only took me a little over an hour to read.Looking over the other reviews, they are right, she needs something new. The witches and vampires just is plain and boring out there. I admire her for being published at a young age, but her writing really needs an improvement.
Rating: Summary: An Embarassment Review: I was sadly disappointed and probably the last time I will ever think of buying her book. Next time I will just save the money and borrow it from the library. there's just no improvement in her writing. This is even more unoriginal then her last two books. It reminds me of a rip off of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I expected more from her. This is garbage, hopefully her next book will be well over the vampire hunter a la witch by then. It be nice to read something not about witches in every book.
Rating: Summary: Very Good Review: I also loved this book by Atwater-Rhodes. It was just as good as Demon in my View. I certainly suggest it to anyone even looking at this review. Let me tell you Sarah Tigress Vida is so unlike the already known if you have read Demon in my view Dominique Vida. Did anyone know she had two daughters? A total must read!
Rating: Summary: Another great peek into the world of vampires & witches! Review: I really liked this book, the 3rd by this author. It was nice to learn about one of the other lines of vampires, whereas her last 2 books were about Silver's line. The only negative thing i have to say is that i think it lacked a little of the crispness that the other two had. Still, a very good book with interesting and multi-layered characters, and a nice placed plot. I can't wait to read her next book!
Rating: Summary: A great new book by a great young author! Review: Sarah Vida may look normal but she's not. Though she plays the part of a normal 17-year-old by day at night she's a witch, and not just any witch, a Vida witch, a powerful vampire hunter. When she enters a new school she immeaditally catches the attention of two vampires, both who are far too weak to realize who she even is. But as she grows to know them better (especially the good looking Christopher) she realizes that everything in the world is not as black and white as she once saw it. She realizes that some vampires can be possibly... good? But her opnions all change when she learns that Christopher's twin brother is Nickolas, a fabled vampire that the Vida line has been hunting for ages, and who Sarah has been dying to get her hands on. But where do her loyalties lie, with Christopher or with the rules and regulations that the Vida line has bestowed on her? I found this book to be very entertaining. Sarah is a great charecter and so are all the other new charecters in the book. It's nice to see some returning charecters (especially Caryn Smoke) too. Though the ending is weak, it's worth buying it for the first 2/3rds of the book. I reccomend it to any Atwater-Rhodes fans. Oh and while reading this book I found myself certain that Amelia was once a Night World fan. I found yet again another compairison. The SingleEarth group sounds so much like Circle Daybreak. But other than that the book is great. Enjoy!
Rating: Summary: Come up with something new Review: While Amelia Atwater-Rhodes' books are well written, she needs to come up with something new. Shattered Mirror is a sequel to IN THE FOREST OF THE NIGHT and A DEMON IN MY VIEW. None of the books are especially awe-inspiring, except to prove that young adults can be successful. In Shattered Mirror, Sara Vida is a vampire-hunting witch. She is put to the test when she discovers that two students at her new school are vampires. They try to befriend her, but this is strictly prohibited by the Vida Laws. What can she do? Her main goal is to catch the notorious Nikolas, a vampire who cuts his name into his victims. But she loses control when she learns more about him. Shattered Mirror's ending is weak, very similar to both FOREST and DEMON. Atwater-Rhodes needs to come up with something new, and she needs to consider writing books that are not part of a series. If it were not for the ending, Mirror might have four, not three, stars.
Rating: Summary: remarkable but a little bit disappointing Review: This book was I think, a little bit of a let down. I wanted to see some of the old charactors we all cared about. (Risika, Aubrey, Jessica, Fala, Ather, Jagar) The only familiar charactors were Dominique and Caryn. You heard about Nikolas being so strong and everything, but if he was, why didn't we hear about him in previous books??? I didn't like the newer charactors as much as the old ones. One good thing about the book was its length. It was longer then the previous ones. It was also written better too. Overall this book is a good one, except I prefered Demon in My View and In the forests of the night.
Rating: Summary: Disappointed Review: I have to say I am very disappointed in this writer. After reading her last two books I expected her to improve in her writing. The ending didn't really catch my eye. It seemed weak, maybe a little weaker then Demon In My View's. I think she needs to go into more depth. There's just not enough. I do wish her luck and hope for a change. Something different I hope. It be nice if she could go outside of witches and vampires. It would be a change, variety is more.
Rating: Summary: This book was OK Review: Okay, the reason I am giving this book only 3 stars is because honestly, I think it could have been alot better. I did not like the ending though, it did hold my interest. I was never bored and I did love the characters. I love vampire/romance novels so I was ecstatic to hear about this book. I was just so disappointed... Maybe I am missing something.
Rating: Summary: Breathless... Review: That is how the end of this book left me. All of Amelia Atwater-Rhodes's books affect you in different ways. The stories are the same, but different. I have enjoyed them all, and my respect and admiration for this girl grows with each of her books. I like each one better than the one before it.
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