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Summary: WOW
Review: When I first saw the cover of this book i was like: wow hottie! I thought this was a wonderful book especially cause of my love for the supernatural. It was great!
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Summary: Read the beginning if you like mindless dribble
Review: Written By: Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Cover Art By: N/A
Published: 2000
Published By: Dell Laurel-Leaf
Pages: 176
Extras: Expert from "Shattered Mirror."Summary:
N/A Cover Art Review:
I can tell it's Aubrey on the cover because of the tattoos. He's holding a black rose. It's alright cool but not as cool as the cover for In the Forests of the Night.
Overall: 3 (1-10) It has a _very_ loose tie to the story, but it is some what insterting to look at. Book Review:
I think it's all agreed that Atwater-Rhodes has good spring-board ideas. However, her chacters, plot line, and how she ties up the plot all fail. Aubrey, a good chacter when he was in the author's first book, has apparently gone through the "plot device" machine. Instead of using his extremely supernatural powers to kill Jessica and cover it up, he spies on her as a high school student. Why? This is not explained. Jessica is best described as a Mary Sue. For anyone who doesn't know, a Mary Sue is the author inserting herself into her story and making herself perfect. Even a Mary Sue's "flaws" are calculated. Jessica has a body "to die for." (The author wastes a paragraph where Jessica stands in front of a mirror basically worshipping herself.) She's a good writer (so good that only after a week of being out, people are reading her book and she believes that "Alex" is an crazy fan) and a good artist to boot. Yet everyone at her school "flees" from Jessica and some are even violent towards her. (Yet all we (the reader) see are a few looks and a group of girls leaving after Jessica snaps at them.) When the new girl Caryn approaches her, Jessica doesn't even try to make a friend. She claims to not want friends, but Jessica harps to much on the fact that everyone "runs" from her for that to be true. It should be noted that a high school friend of the author was the one who suggested the plot of the book. The plot, while predictable, was defiantly inserting. Unless you're five, it will come to no surprise that Jessica becomes a vampire and Ann dies. It is after the latter event that the book goes from a mindless read to a bad book. Jessica hates Dominique on sight because she's killed vampires she has "known." Dominique only kills vampires who kill people. She rightly states that vampires don't need to kill to survive. Jessica her that at least vampires don't "preach the morality of their killing." Uh, hello? A vampire just killed your mother, the woman who adopted you. The only person who "truly cared about you." The vampire didn't need to eat, he just killed her in cold blood. The author makes no attempt to show both sides. In her mind, vampires are good, witches are bad. As I said in the review for In the Forest of the Night, Atwater-Rhodes' vampires are too powerful. The reader needs to be given some hope that, if they came across one of her vampires, they can escape. There is now tension in who is going to win, human or vampire. In fact, the weakest vampire is Fala, who happens to be the villain as well. As it was pointed out before, this is not a good idea. There is no tension because the villain is too afraid to go against the hero. I will end this long review on one note. I would like Amelia Atwater-Rhodes to write a witch version of In the Forest of the Night. Yes, I know about Shattered Mirror, but that, in the end, turned out to be a vampire good, witches evil story. Overall: 2 (1-10) 1 for the plot about Jazzlyn, the second for Caryn. I would like the author to write a witches good, vampires bad story. Read the beginning if you like mindless dribble, but by no means think is a good book.
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Summary: DEMON IN MY VIEW-AMELIA ATWATER-RHODES
Review: A young writer gets scared when Audrey, a foe she has written of in her books, appears in her local high-school. She finds all she has written is true, and that is why other vampires want her dead. But Aubrey seems to like her... Great! A lot better than her first novella, "In the Forests of the Night". I liked it because it seemed to mirror her...
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Summary: A GOOD VAMPIRE BOOK!!!!!
Review: I dont know how the author does it but this is by far one of the best vampire boooks i've read in a long time.
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Summary: Very excellent book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: This book is action packed with a twist of romance and at times comedy and horror. Jessica is all alonein the world except for her stepmother, who shes not to fond of. Everyone at school avoids her and shezs always alone writing books. She doesn't want people in her high school to know shes an author so she put the a pen name down as ash night. A mysterious boy moves into town and they hit it off. Through twists and turns they both ge more than what they hoped or feared.
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Summary: Over Hyped
Review: This book is many times more shallow then I would have expected from such a praised writer. For all the magazines (Teen, Y.M etc...) I expected to read a story with some depth. Not one with simple, personalitiless characters that easily fall into cliches. But this is not the only problem the entire concept is done in an amaturish manner. It's obvious within minutes of starting the story it was written by someone without any real-world-experience. The only thing that this book accomplished was to prove that Hype can't make a story.
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Summary: A Nice Piece of Work
Review: In this book, I believe Amelia does a much better job of writing than when she wrote In the Forests of the Night. She puts more character into the figures in the book and that really makes it flow. However, like all books, there are a few flaws. Jessica is the school outcast. People instinctively avoid her and she does not get along with her foster mom, Anne. She spends a lot of her free time in her room writing under the pen name, Ash Night. Then, Alex a.k.a. Aubrey-very powerful vampire, shows up at her school. She's attracted to him and thinks he looks just like the character, Aubrey from her book. Little does she know that Alex and Aubrey are one and the same and the words that she has been putting down on paper about the vampire community is true! The villainess in this story, Fala, wants her dead so she will stop writing about her kind, but Aubrey, returning Jessica's attraction, prevents her from doing so. Then, Anne's neck is snapped by a vampire sent from Fala in the church yard in broad daylight and Jessica wants revenge. She moves in with a line of witches and the woman she hates, Dominique Vida, most powerful witch and campire hunter shows up and warns Jessica that if she chooses the vampires, she will not protect her. Jessica wanders into New Mayhem, the vampire community, twice in the book. After the first time, Aubrey kisses her. After the second, a vampiress gets into trouble and Aubrey has to leave Jessica alone for a minute. But when he comes back, Jessica is gone...and so is Fala. Will Aubrey be in time to save Jessica or will Fala kill her and stop Jessica's revealing literature? All will be revealed in: DEMON IN MY VIEW.
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Summary: One of my favorites
Review: I can understand why others wouldn't love this book as much as I do, but unlike them, I can relate to Jessica really well. All of Amelia Atwater-Rhodes' books have really captured my attention 24/7, and this is my favorite of all of them. Jessica, a teen author, has always been the outsider at her school. Surprisingly the new kid, called Alex, pays a lot of attention to her. From the first time she saw him all she could think about was his resemblence to Aubrey, one of the main characters in her books. Though, Aubrey is a vampire, and vampires aren't real....right?
Now that you've read my cheesy review, you must go read this book! I know I say that all the time but I really mean it!
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Summary: Put A Stake In It
Review: Beautiful but misunderstood heroine, sexy vampire love interest, good-natured. optimistic Wiccan, I really liked this story... when it was called "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". Even judging this by young adult standards it's a poor excuse for a novel. Heck, by fan-fiction standards this is a poor excuse for a novel. Contradictions abound and the author seems makes up vampire lore as she goes, usually to get herself some corner she's written herself into. I won't rehash the plot, as many other reviews have done so much better then I could have, and without the smart remarks I no doubt would have been driven to make. While I will grant that Atwater Rhodes writes well for her age, any promise she might have shown in 'Forest of the Night' just got flushed down the same drain as the money you spent on this fluff. She takes characters from her first novel and turns them into caricatures (shadowy menace becomes puppy love with fangs) and the ones she introduces are about as well developed as a prepubescent child, including the one based on herself! At one point Amelia...I'm sorry I mean *Jessica*...can't understand why someone as gorgeous and talented as her has such a hard time being accepted. Here's a clue: you're vain, vapid and shallow, and when someone tries to be nice and make friends with you, you act more like a witch than an actual Wiccan. Don't believe me? With all these glowing reviews I can't blame you, so if you absolutely must satisfy your curiosity might I suggest the following?
1. Check this out of the library
2. Find the 45 minutes it will take you to speed through this pothole-laced highway of a book
3. Take a long hot shower to wash away the dirty feeling it gives you
4. Resist urge to set book on fire
5. Spend your money on Laurell K. Hamilton or a 'Buffy' Novel instead
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Summary: Aubrey, Jessica, and Caryn
Review: Jessica is strange and dark- as it seems to her schoolmates. But she's also full of secrets. She's actually Ash Night, the author of Tiger, Tiger. Tiger, Tiger is a best-seller that's popular among teens- but they aren't the only things that know about this book. Welcome to the world of New Mayhem, where some of the oldest and most powerful vampires come to see there own kind. New Mayhem is so close to Jessica's town that it's no wonder that they hear about this new novel. Aubrey, the main character in Tiger, Tiger isn't just in Jessica's imangination. Neither are Fala, Risika, Caryn Smoke, and so many others that are not known by humans. When Aubrey meets Jessica, he stops himself from killing her because he's confused by her. At the same time, Caryn Smoke, a daughter of Macht; meets Jessica too. Although Jessica shuns Caryn, and finds her annoying, she's at first interested in Aubrey (Alex Remington). But Fala's hate for her and her true mother reveals her past... and a future as uncertain. I liked this book, but not as much as the other novels that Amelia Atwater-Rhodes has written. One thing, Jessica is too strong. She can escape Fala's mind, stop Aubrey from killing her just because she just...Jessica. But one of the best things of the books is because of her dreams. At first you don't understand, but then it becomes clear that Jazlyn is somehow related to Jessica, even though it's sort of obvious that Jazlyn is Jessica's mother right from the start.
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