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Summary: This book is awesome!
Review: This is, by far, the best vampire novel I have ever read--and I've read a lot of vampire novels! I couldn't put this book down. I didn't read it, I inhaled it! If you've seen the John Carpenter film version of this book, and haven't read the book...READ THE BOOK!!! The movie doesn't even come close to the excellence of Vampire$. So, if you are in the mood for a gripping novel about vampires and those who hunt them, this is the book for you.
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Summary: I hunt Vampires for a living......
Review: First off, how can you not like a vampire novel with the name of the author is Steakly. *LOL*. You know it's going to be a good read.Before I get started, I just wanted to say how bad the movie to this book is. If you've seen the movie, and not sure if you want to read the book, I urge you to forget the horrid movie, and sit back and enjoy VAMPIRE$. Meet Jack Crow. Crow has a foul mouth, quick temper, liked his wiskey, and is a vampire hunter. He hunts vampires for money, a lot of it. The reader will accompany Crow on a few slayings. You'll meet his team and get to know the characters, and their background. I really liked the char. Cat, what a hoot. He's adds a lot to this book. What impressed me the most was they last slaying that the reader will read about. The Team has to come up aganist a master vampire...at night. Why you ask? Read the book and find out. Steakly has an amazing writing style. Through interesting plot twists, and fasntastic char the reader will be drawn in and will be fighting to put the book down. Steakly's that good. I highly suggest this book if you like vampire books, horror books, or likes to read a well crafted story by a talented author. If you start this book, you won't be sorry.
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Summary: Give the Steak to These Awful "Vampire$"
Review: John Steakley's "Vampire$" falls into the category of "great concept--lousy execution." That Steakley is not a terribly creative writer is immediately apparent to anyone who has read his sci-fi epic "Armor." Though that novel is pretty good, one has to question why, other than abject laziness, would he use the same two names (Jack Crow and Felix) who were the heros of the previous book? The first scene of "Vampire$" starts out scary, but decends into gratuitous violence. From there, the novel stalls, spending over a hundred pages on uneffective character deveolpment. The mood is all wrong. If vampires WERE real and stalking the earth, one would think that governments would have more urgency about destroying them and that those who do the job would be a little more organized. I also found the religous aspect of the story baffling. Quite frankly, the whole novel lost comprehension for me well before the halfway mark. I would love to see it rewritten by someone who is able to give its great concept true justice.
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