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Summary: Really, really great debut novel.
Review: The strength of this vampire novel, and the weakness of others, is that Jefferson has actual characters. You know, fictional beings with problems and hang-ups, hopes and desires. You care about the people living in _Voice of the Blood_. So many authors just use their characters as tools to get from plot point A to plot point B. It was so great to read a horror novel where I actually cared what happened, where I got lost in the book. She had lots of sex and perversity, but again it made sense and seemed to fit with the story. Kudos to the author and here's hoping for more.
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Summary: Erotic, Gothic, Bloody
Review: This is quite a debut effort from a new writer who's bound to make herself known within horror circles. She writes like a real pro, her knowledge of gothic lifestyle quite certain. The vampires here are very real, the first-person protag easily identifiable. I recommend this book highly, as I was quite pleased and surprised with its contents. Great job, Ms Jefferson. I'll look for more from you.
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Summary: i love this book!
Review: this is the best vampire book i have ever read. it's erotic and the characters are amazing. if there is ever a movie made, some ridiculously hot man is going to have to play daniel. (i'd suggest brian warner.) i just finished it and am going to read it again and again. i cannot wait for the next jemiah jefferson book. the only downside is that after reading this book, no one will want a mortal man!
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Summary: Excellent
Review: This was such a wonderful novel. The fastest I've ever read a book. This book was so well written that I could not stop reading it. It follows a young woman who is searching for companionship when her lover moves away. What she finds is something she hardly bargined for. She meets a man named Ricari who is very handsome and who also is seeking a companion. For fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer the feelings Ariane has towards Ricari really reminds you of the feelings Buffy shared for Angel. Very excellent but seemed far fetched at times overall I highly recommend this to anyone who is a fan of vampire novels.
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Summary: Pity the poor trees
Review: Turn we now our attention to the latest work from Ms. Jefferson. Unfortunately, that force causing said turning is the same force that causes one to stare at the accident on the freeway. This "book" is a literary accident, clogging up more than one lane of the highway of fiction. Had I even been able to finish it, I would have been able to report as to whether the book, even more long-winded and pedantic that myself, ever succeeded in making sense from page to page. Nothing in the first four-fifths indicated this, however. Oh, the prose is turgid enough and often as dry and baroque as Henry James on a difficult stool day, however, one often feels as though Ms. Jefferson wrote this book under the influence of a community college physics course. The text, too often Ophelia-drowned in a manically depressive stream of hyperconsciousness (and in any case always full of Proust-long periods that leave one constantly winded), is buoyed up solely by the regular interjection of fumbling and sophmoric sex scenes. No expert on the genre myself, my good wife assures me that most of the sex scenes are in fact ripped off (so to speak) from the latest romance novels, so even there Ms. Jefferson delights us more with a sense of the complete moral failure of this novel than with any of that actual writing. Voice of the Blood, overall, does little to advance the vampire-horror novel beyond the Colonialist rantings of Kuyper or the Greek reactionary school's half-baked offerings. If the scale was a measure only of pendantry, pastiche, or opprobrium, this book would sweep every award this year. However, as a Serious Critic, I must ask to you buy a copy of this book even for the sole purpose of burning.
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Summary: Very disappointing
Review: Unfortunately I have a dissenting opinion. I did not find the characters at all interesting. I thought they were whiney, immature, and one dimensional. I have read a lot of the best in this genre, Laurell K. Hamilton, Tanya Huff, etc., and was VERY disappointed in this book. I do think this author has talent, but wish she had spent more time on characterization.
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Summary: summation of Voice of the Blood
Review: Upon beginning this book,I found very quickly that I had a difficult time putting it down.I have read multiple vampire novels and to date I hold this book to be far above the others.Eloquently written and set in real life scenario,it brings the eroticism and complexities of society & vampires together.
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Summary: Move Over Anne Rice
Review: Voice Of the Blood is a vampire novel in the Anne Rice tradition (ie, where the vampire tells his/her story to the reader). As a matter of fact, it is the best novel of its kind I have read since Rice's The Vampire Chronicles. This book is erotic, frightening, bloody and extremely compelling. Jemiah Jefferson is a bright new voice in horror fiction that should not be missed.When Ariane encounters a strange man in her office, little does she know that this very man will change her life for ever. For you see, this elegant, pale and enigmatic man is a vampire, one that has lived through centuries and who is tired of his dark gift. And it is because of him that Arian will meet Daniel, another vampire, one who is not afraid of anything had who has a very dark side. Daniel is actually very reminiscent of Rice's Lestat because of his erratic and often violent behaviour. Jefferson's mythology is actually different from the one you'd expect to find in such a book. Her vampires can still travel through the day, as long as they protect their skin and eyes, and they can eat and drink like humans. All of this only makes their actions more terrifying. I have to admit that I was not expecting much from this book. I thought I was picking up a quick read that would suffice my vampire-fiction craving until the next new Rice book. But once I was done reading Voice Of The Blood, I quickly realized that I had just read a wonderfully amazing book which is very fun and very entertaining. Jefferson's voice is very poetic and definite. A truly wonderful book from a greatly talented author that will please all Anne Rice fans.
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Summary: A Lovely Bloodbath
Review: Writers of genre fiction can either provide mindless, derivative throwaway entertainment, or they can tell real stories about real people, cloaked in the garb of the genre of choice. Jefferson's novels are solidly in the latter category. Not that they don't entertain - sex and violence and vampires and rock and roll and a whole new physiology of the vampire and a really silly cover probably designed by a frustrated artist prosituting himself to make a living at his art, makes for fun for all the family, assuming your family is not much like mine at all. However, having entertained, Jefferson has also written a novel in which human nature is not just writ large, it's spraypainted along a fleet of subway cars in day-glo blacks and reds. If you've moved in certain subcultures, these characters are people you know, with all of the knobs turned all the way up, making for a much more visceral read than the typical paint-the-walls-with-blood fare.
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Summary: A depressing story about an addictive personality
Review: Yes, this is billed as a vampire book, but it read more like a study of an addictive personality. Ariane just goes from one addiction to another. 1st she's a workaholic, then she gets addicted to the 1st vampire Racari. She's obsessed, she quits work, she doesn't pay bills. Sounds like an addiction to me. Then she becomes obsessed/addicted to the next vampire Daniel. Through the whole thing, she's taking drugs - more addiction. Half way through, I quit reading the book. Couple this fascination with the addictive personality with a writing style that formally could only be found in the magazines one found in the back of an adult toy store, and you've got a total turn-off for me!!! Although Ms. Jefferson has a wonderful command of English, she can't seem to get through her literary effort without liberal use of four letter words describing sexual processes and organs. Oh yea, I forgot to mention that Ariane also seems to be obsessed with sex with vampires. Anne Rice has nothing to worry about. Ms. Jefferson cannot develop a character with enough depth to compete.
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