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Summary: A Great Read - You'll Enjoy!
Review: "Children of the Vampire" is the second in the trilogy of "The Diaries of the Family Dracul". "Covenant With the Vampire" is the first book is and the third and final book is "Lord of the Vampires" The reason I mentioned the other novels is because they should be read to get the whole and entire story. All are highly engrossing and interesting. How Ms Kalogridis thought up all this is beyond me - but she is obviously talented. Although all the books are wonderful reads - be prepared - there are strange situations in the books - among them are incest and homosexuality. The books don't go into to much "intimate" details on these subjects - and they're not something that carries on into the complete story. So the squeamish should tolerate them just fine. Therefore, I would advise anyone who likes vampire novels to purchase all three of them.
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Summary: Superb sequal!!!!!!!
Review: 6 WORDS: Magnificent, Stunning, Captivating, Horrifying, Coniving, and Spellbinding!!!!
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Summary: A bit of a disappointment...
Review: After reading Covenent of the Vampire, I was quite disappointed in this one. The book seemed to be a filler in the trilogy, the characters were flat and the story didn't go anywhere. It seemed that it was just a chance for the author to put gore and sex together on paper.
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Summary: The Blood of the Children
Review: As a continuation of Covenant With the Vampire, in Children of the Vampire, Arkady Tsepesh lives in fear of the family obligation or curse to provide Vlad Dracula the first born male of each generation for a blood sacrifice. This has been a tradition for over 400 years and Arkady insists that this nightmare is going to end with him.The book has the same dark atmosphere as the first in the trilogy and the suspense keeps building. Written in a diary format, you are able to get close to each person and feel their overwhelming hope, despair, tragedy throughout. This is an excellent sequel to Covenant With the Vampire.
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Summary: A total Mind boggle
Review: Beautifully written. I read all 3 in one night. couldn't put them down. All I have to say is amazing.
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Summary: A total Mind boggle
Review: Beautifully written. I read all 3 in one night. couldn't put them down. All I have to say is amazing.
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Summary: Good book, but not excellent
Review: Children of the Vampire is, with no doubt, a good horror book, telling with a subject that perhaps is somehow abused; anyway J.Kalogridis was able to capture the reader's interest thank to her skill of describing vivid, almost real scenes. If you read it, you won't dislike it, even if, in my humble opinion Covenant with the Vampire was far better than this one; in fact I think the plot of Children of Vampire does not match the expectations of the most of readers because it seems a bit too...weak, as if the author had been compelled to write extra-pages for economic reasons and so she had not payed enough attention to the general framework of her book. In a few words, a good work, as to style and atmosphere, but not fantastic just like the first of the trilogy.
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Summary: Wonderful!!! Truly a vampire masterpiece!!!!
Review: Children of the Vampire: The Diaries of the Family Dracul is a spell-binding book that keeps you hanging on 'til the very end.
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Summary: Simply Ocerwhelming
Review: I first read Kalogridis' work in the burning times, and found it interesting, however for the diaries of the family dracul, i must say is astonishing. Each page goes by instantly and you can do little but keep on reading, and even after the first book is gone, your mind is so entangled in the plot you just have to keep reading.
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Summary: Beautifully written!
Review: I think that Jeanne Kalogridis has outdone herself in the second novel of her vampire trilogy. Although her first novel, Covenant with the Vampire, was excellent I think that she has done a wonderful job in recreating the characters that she introduced. I put her on the same level as Anne Rice!
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