Midnight Blue: The Sonja Blue Collection

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Summary: BREATH TAKING!
Review: I MUST START BY TELLING YOU I AM A ONE SUBJECT READER, BUT MY CLOSEST FRIEND GAVE ME A COPY OF "A DOZEN BLACK ROSES", THE FOURTH OF "MIDNIGHT BLUE" I FINISHED THE BOOK IN TWO HOURS NONSTOP READING. THEN I GOT MIDNIGHT BLUE, THE FIRST STORY IS RATHER SLOW BUT EQUALLY AS GOOD AS THE REST. THIS IS A WONDERFUL COLLECTION, AND I AM NOW AN ALL TIME READER OF NANCY'S. PLEASE READ THIS BREATH TAKING BOOK.

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Summary: Mildly entertaining pulp vampire trilogy
Review: I searched for the Sonja Blue books for months before _Midnight Blue: The Sonja Blue Collection_ was released in paperback. I had read several rave reviews of Collins' vampire series and was looking forward to the read. I won't say I wish I hadn't wasted my time, but the Sonja Blue series just isn't terribly impressive.

_Sunglasses After Dark_ was, without question, my least favorite of the three books. At times, I felt like I was reading the tripe still being churned out by the "creative" team that writes under the name of the now-deceased V.C. Andrews. But, at least the writers of the Andrews books had the good sense not to kill off every major character in the story, save one. In _Sunglasses_, that sense isn't shared by Collins. This book's cast gets popped off as quickly as the villains in a penny arcade shoot-out.

_In The Blood_ was better. Still not genius, but better. Collins managed to pen an interesting story here, but it became glaringly apparent that she was making an oh-so vain attempt at mimicing Poppy Z. Brite. C'mon....hang it up, Nancy. You might live in the same town as Poppy, but I'm afraid you're not playing in the same league.

Finally, _Paint It Black_ provides a story with some meat in it. More interesting character development and the story held my interest far longer than its often dull predecessors did. It was in _PIB_ that I finally grew weary of Collins' penchant for recycling descriptive devices again and again (don't you read your own books, Nancy?), but, by the time I reached the last ten or fifteen pages of the book, I was rushing to find out how it was going to end. The climax yields no surprises, but that portion of _PIB_, admittedly, was pretty well-written.

Overall, I would give a half-hearted recommendation of _Midnight Blue_. I suppose its mindless readability might prove entertaining if you're on the beach someplace next summer (or if you just don't expect much from any given book or from your own imagination).

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Summary: Look out Buffy, There's a new hunter in town!!
Review: I truely love this book! I gave this book a rating five stars because of how it flow. It is truely original and unique! I expected vampire traditions & cliches like in most books, to my surprise, there were little & it was truely a good read. Sonja battles herself as well as vampires! The Other is an alter ego she battles mentally to remain humanly sane. Her life begins in a whole new journey after her old life dies. Once she was a celebrity daughter of a multi-millionaire Denise Thorne, one horrific night changed her life and started a whole new journey of self discovery! She was not a true vampire she was something else. Wow, I was in disbelief she was something that I would have never thought of. This book was truely a page turner wanting to know what would happen next. I was please to find this book wasn't a typical vampire book cliche. There were some personal things I dislike, like after the vampires die they turn to goo instead of dust, like in Buffy, but that my preference! I'm glad I bought the collection instead of the individual books, because I was truely hungery for more once a book was done. I just keep reading. This book was recommend to me and I would like to recommend this book collection to others. If your a diehard Buffy fan read this book with an open mind or you'll dislike it!!

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Summary: Sonja Blue kicks ass
Review: I'm no fan of fantastic tales of blood sucking vampires, but Nancy Collins has done such a fantastic job of weaving the Sonja Blue mystique that I was compelled to read each installment of the quartet. With each subsequent novel Sonja delves into her past and determines not only who she is, but what she is and has become. It's a great read on a rainy day, or even a not so rainy day.

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Summary: Take a break from Anne Rice
Review: I've been reading this series for 11 years. If you've read more than 3 vampire novels in your life, you'll like it. Anyone under 20 is going to LOVE it.

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Summary: Vampire Terminator
Review: If Buffy is the slayer and Anita Blake is the executioner then Sonya Blue is the vampire terminator! You will get that assumption when you finished the unforgettable epic dark fantasy book chronicling the bloody exploits of one Sonya Blue a young woman who once a rich young heiress by the name of Denise Thorne until she was raped and drained of blood by a vicious vampire by the name of Morgan.Now as Sonya blue she hunts down other vampires hoping to find and destroy Morgan.She must also contend with her alter-ego a sadist demon called the Other that shares her mind and who gains pleasures from killing and pain.In the first book:Sunglasses after dark.You first meet Sonya as she escapes from a mental hospitol and battles a sinister lady televangelist who also is a telepath.She tells you in her own words on how she became a vampire and how she decides to hunt other vampires called pretenders and their human psychic slaves called renfields.The second book:In the Blood sonya with the aid of private eye goes after Morgan.This book gives you more of understanding of Sonya and her terrifying world that invisible to normal humans.A world of vampires,demons, werewolves and succubus.The last book:Paint it Black Sonya finally accepts herself as a vampire as she continues her vendatta against Morgan.Collins has introduces us to unforgettable heroine who is witty and sexy,violent and who still holds our sympathies even after she commits shocking deeds.She also gives a some great characters like private eye-Palmer who agrees to help sonya is her battles and soon regrets it.Anise-the doomed vampire/hybrid who used by Morgan is his attempts to create a master race of vampires.Pangloss-the powerful vampire who made Morgan and now seeks to destroy him.Lethe-the daughter of Anise who transformation will change the world.Collins's Sonya Blue novels are the best dark fantasy since Anita Blake series and filled gruesome scenes of monsters,magic and menace as Sonya takes us guide tour of her frightening world!

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Summary: Read it if you're bored and have nothing else in mind.
Review: Maybee I'm not the most fair critic in the world when it comes to vampire literature, but this could have used some work. The high dose of action was good, along with some bits and pieces of clever originality. Unfortunately, the majority of The Sonja Blue collection seemed to be a big fat cliche of mixed up movies and comics. Actually, this probably would have been better if it was a comic. Vertigo could probably give Sonja some justice.

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Summary: Amazing!
Review: Nancy A. Collins is a superb writer and her Sonja Blue series is probably the best vampire literature ever published. In these novels, she manages to create an enormous yet coherent universe of vampires, demons, werewolves, and all of the other assorted beasties that go bump in the night. And Sonja (along with her split personality) is a real, 3D character, not some empty stereotype. I recommend this book to anyone with the slightest interest in horror or the supernatural

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Summary: Probably the best vampire books ever written
Review: Nancy Collins has written probably the best series of vampire books ever. The character of Sonja Blue is extraordinary. She was once a spoiled rich girl that had everything, her name, her memories and most painfully her family, ripped violently away from her by an arrogant Sir Morgan's whim. Stumbling out into the world almost everyone she meets betrays her or dies violently because of her influence in their lives. Now this would be traumatic for most people, but Sonja Blue has even a bigger problem, she's no ordinary blood sucker. Human intervention has caused her to grow very very quickly into a creature with powers far beyond her age.... not to mention a very evil alternate personality. Powerful, raw and poignant. You won't be sleeping for days

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Summary: If you like vampires and fast-paced horror-you'll love this!
Review: Nancy Collins is best known for her Sonja Blue character.. we bring her to life in this one of a kind collection. The final book PAINT IT BLACK has never been published before! Read it for the first time! Look for her next book A DOZEN BLACK ROSES from White Wolf, available now! It promises to be Sonja at her best (or should we say worst). Email us with comments at [e-mail] and visit our website at www.white-wolf.com. And if you are a real Nancy Collins fan, look for an all original ANGELS ON FIRE summer 1997...No vampires, just a crash-landed angel and all the demons of hell! it's a new Nancy, and boy is it good...