Demon in My View

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Summary: *Demon in my View*
Review: This is another great book by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, even if it's not my favorite book by her. I loved this book because of the suspense and mystery surrounding Jessica and her family. Even though it's hard to get if you haven't read In the Forests of the Night; it's a for everyone book! Lots of characters that come in other books appear here, so it's easy to connect with her other novels.

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Summary: That of an Inexperience
Review: After seeing all the good reviews, I have to say that I would had never read a book by a high school student, but since it got such praise, I decided to take this one up. I read the NOVELLA, getting tired of seeing people call it a novel. Majority of YA books are nothing but short novellas and a majority of YA books are from inexperience writers.

This book is another one of those.

The main character is a callous and lone wolf, Jessica, who apparently hates everyone for unknown reasons. That's what makes the character so unrealistic. She's a loner and doesn't have friends, why? Well, lets put it this way, she's rude, mean, shallow and highly superficial. Who would want to be her friend?

The sad thing is both main characters, Jessica and Aubrey are extremely hot, so hot that they deserve each other. If I were Jessica, I probably would have tons of boyfriends. Apparently, these characters have no flaws once so ever, none mental or physical.

The vampires are nothing but invincible beings. Even the villain is a weakling. She is one of the WEAKEST vampires I have seen in a book.

RULE #1 Amelia Atwater-Rhodes: You never and I mean never, make the villain weaker than the heroine and hero. It's plain stupidity.

Vampires: holy substances don't harm, stakes don't kill, hell, they aren't even demon. Vampires are suppose to have weaknesses, rather they sound like human-vampire wannabes.

Question: Why are the vampires in school?

Others things I had a problem with were the plot, characterization ans style. The style was annoying to read. It sounded like a Dawson's Creek episode. The book is cliched and unrealistic. I don't understand how this girl got published, but we know why, her age. It had to do with her age. After reading this book I am suggesting you don't read anything by a high school student, or unless somehow the writer withholds his or her age and gains actual praise for actual writing...

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Summary: Great book :-)
Review: This is a fabulous book by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes...her first was great and her second (this one) was PHENOMANAL and no offense but I didn't like her third, Shattered Mirror...the whole 'scarring' thing I felt was highly inappropriate and unnecessary, except for the fact that it added to the EVILness that most of her vampires lack. Nich(k)olas was ok though, why isn't he in her other books?
But about THIS book...
This is her best by far...Jessica is annoying, moody, a rather stereotypical teenager, and true, I would never want to be her friend. But I think she is supposed to appear that way--otherwise she wouldn't be a social outcast, obviously!
And will people give it up on how Aubrey has turned 'good' suddenly!!! Isn't it obvious! In "Forests of the Night" Aubrey comes across as evil because he is Risika's enemy. In "Demon in My View", he's on Jessica's side, so he looks 'good'. Isn't it obvious?!
By the way Aubrey is sooooo cool and I can't believe he's not in any of the others, not even the new one "Hawksong". When will she actually write the real-world equivalent of "Dark Flame", Aubrey's biography mentioned in "Demon"??? He's sooo cool!
;-D

Oh and as a point to the amazon.com people, you shouldn't have to have an email address to write a review! You wouldn't believe the trouble I had to go through to get this posted! The Kid's Review link is dead FYI!

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Summary: Great book
Review: I got this book from a book selling thing last year in school. I bought the rest of her books and have read them all at least 50 times. I love her books. I have fallen in love with all her characters. I write my own short stories and she has been a huge inspiration to me. I say Buy this book if you don't already have it.

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Summary: Move over Dracula
Review: This book definetly falls into BEST BOOK EVER READ catergory. But seriously, this book is suspensful, exciting, and humorous, all rolled up into one package. Aubrey and Risika are people Dracula can't even compare with. See vampires in a new light. They're world goes so much deeper than "I want to suck your blood."

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Summary: Vampires are Cool
Review: I love this book it's awesome. I think that This is one of her best books I own all 4 and I've read them all many times. I love how she mixes romance with drama and comedy. she's a senior at Ramsa high and shes an outsider and doesn't have any friends until alex comes to her school. Well I don't wan to ruin the bopok for anyone so just read the book you won't regrete it it's awesome!

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Summary: Cliches and Terrible Style
Review: This was actually the first novel from Amelia that I read, what threw me off were the myths. I am getting quite annoyed with White Wolf writers who keep changing the vampire myth. I don't care about one of two things, but Amelia takes their reputation away as the Creatures of Darkness.

The closest thing to gothic was Jessica who dressed dark and mysterious, supposedly, but held the persona of an annoying cheerleader gone scorned trying to be something she isn't. She's under the pen name of Ash Night who meets a guy by the name of Alex, only in actuality, Aubrey from her books.

Predictably, there is a love story and from the beginning you know Jessica will turn into a vampire. Those who didn't obviously haven't read anything in the vampire genre. The relationships are anything but realistic. Two dimensional and shallow. Everyone looks like a model, I never though Amelia to be the type of person like so. If she lived in reality she would know a majority of young girls are going through peer pressure when it comes to the teen adolescents.

I laughed when she said Fala was the villain, one of the weakess vampires? What convinced Amelia to do that? The villain was nothing but whiny, held no sign of intelligence and listened to Aubrey like a dog. She's even afraid to kill Jessica's mother with her own hands.

The book is filled with cliches and the vampires seem more like humans then they do vampires. For those who find the vampires more believable, well, the first sentence of this paragraph explains why. The only people who will fall for this book are teens who either haven't ever read an Anne Rice novel, or those feeble minds who pay no attention to good work.

As far as the changes in vampires, it's Amelia's way of trying to be original. Hanging the vampire myth nowadays is far from the originality of writers who stick with most of the myths. This is definately her worse work yet. I have seen fanfiction better then this garbage.

I would suggest this for the middle school and under. This book is actually a third grade level when it comes to reading, or unless you count the passages where she forces higher vocabulary as if it means anything to her weak style.

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Summary: Unlike any other ~ Great to read
Review: ...Demon in my view is a great book and that Amelia Atwater-Rhodes is a great writer!
Demon in my view may be short but it is also very strange. It tells of Jessica, who because of her Mother is not liked much at school! Aurey is a vampire who wants to kill her. I'm not a firm believer in the supernatural, but I would rather believe Amelia's Ideas of vampires then Buffy the vampire slayer.
She put's a new idea to it and makes vampires belivable instead of the old tales of how Vampires can't come out in the daylight.
I've read both Demon in my view and Shattered Mirror, and just beginning to read Midnight Predator.
I think it is much easier for people to read and understand books such as Demon in my view when they are younger and still believe in things like that.

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Summary: Not much of an improvement
Review: Picking up this book i expected for it to be better than the first since the author had matured some. Boy, was I wrong. Where does she think up this trash? First, there is Jessica,who has no basis whatsoever for being heartless and cold. In the end,there was no need to make this chick into a vampire because she was one from the beginning. It is quite hard to believe that a girl who is supossedly that good-looking is a complete outcast. Carlyn, who overly angelic and sunny is weak and serves little purpose, even her healing Jessica was completely in vain since the girl was going to be made into a vampire anyway. None of these characters are well developed and the only one that had potential was Aubrey(but she messed him up as well). Although he was the typical "bad boy", his seductive wiles and attractive physique draws the reader to him. One expects that with his mesmerizing charm he could easily to seduce and kill but instead he goes soft and in the end is the one to be seduced. The least Amelia could have done was kill off the character Fala who was not a true vampire in my eyes since she could so easily be defeated by Jessica, one who is not even trained in the slaying of vampires. Which brings me to one point that I must make. Why is it that all of Amelia's vampires, being "born before the aztecs" and some nearly 5000 years old be utterly weak and decrepit? In the previous book Aubrey,an ancient 5000 year old vampire gets his a** kicked by Risika, who is only 300 years old at the most. I found this dissapointing not only because I liked Aubrey but because that does not makes sense. What kind of vampires are they? I mean if she is going to rip off certain charateristics of anne rice's vampires then she could atleast make the old ones stronger than the younger ones, or humans at the most. She also tries much too hard to be dismal and gothic. For god's sake, even Anne rice and C. pike vampire's had a sense of humor. The fact that Amelia's vampires are mostly filled with sadistic thoughts of gloom and doom makes them out to be 2 dimensional. Even if they have been a vampire for a long time they have to have some personality from their mortal lives. This only shows that she does does not know how to develope and mold a character into a real person. In order to do that, one must have history, motives, personality and feeling. She has none of these. From now on I think that I will stick to reading books written by authors who have experience, thank you.

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Summary: Embrrassingly Terrible...
Review: This book caught my attention when I heard she was chosen as one of the top teen that would change the world in Teen People, but apparently didn't read it until someone suggested it. So, I decided to read her first book, which is sadly better, then this novel, or shall I say "novella" since it is nowhere near the size of an average novel. Only consisting around 30,000-50,000 words on average. That's how short this book is about, something that would take a middle school kid to read within an hour or two.

I've read novellas before and I have read good ones, but this was one of the terrible.

Starting with Jessica, our heroine who is this supposed "tough girl" with a bad attitude. She's mean and cynical and sounds like one of the characters from Dawson's Creek, this is due to the overdrive of sarcasm. The sarcasm is what immediately annoyed me. I hate Dawson's Creek and listening to teens talk like that.

Next up, clichés such as "boy toy" also irritated me. This novel was piled up of clichés.

Anyway, moving back to Jessica, how was she treated badly? Her foster mother was a good person, the only reason she made Jessica's life hell was due to Jessica's snobbery. Overall, the one reason why she had no friends was due to her insensitivity and judgmental nature. All this character did was criticize the "beautiful" people when she's one of them. She tends to make these vampires out as power beings, but never convinces me of it. They seem weak as a mortal, only cocky about their strength.

Now, here come the vampires, are they really vampires? Vampires are known as what? Creatures of the darkness. The mystery was taken out when she decided to create these beings by day. No holy objects harmed them, nor can stakes kill them, their only vulnerability is magic. WTF?! I would have been more convinced if she gave these creatures a different name. The only similarity to the vampire is the fact they drink blood.

Aubrey is one of these vampires and like Jessica he is "hot" so hot that she falls in love with him at instant of glance. That's another thing the romance was far fetched. She fell for him within a few days. AAR never got deep with the relationship. All we knew was that she's annoyed with him one second and the next, poof, she's in his arms.

Now comes the person we love to hate, the villain... well, I liked her. There was nothing vicious about this villain. I thought it was hilarious when AAR stated she was one of the "weakest." So, you know Fala is going to lose. Wow, how predictable. From what people have taught me, never make the villain the weakest character. Even when I was seven I knew that.

The point about Jessica being of vampiric lineage didn't shock me at all, actually, I didn't find it a bit interesting. Those dream sequences bored me, those were the passages I skimmed through just to keep awake.

The elements of a novel are all missed here, characterization, apparently middle school students consider one chapter of Jessica's description "good character development" and apparently only those who have no skill in telling those apart will fall for that. Everything else from plot structure to choopy time space, mainly failed.

She moved too quickly into the story without even introducing us. A lot of people have been saying this plot is similar to a Christopher Pike book, yes, that is true and I understand she reads C. Pike, well, big surprise. The plot was terribly unoriginal along with every other element.

By the end, I was begging Fala to kill the heroine.

With a good agent, anyone can get published and that's how she came about this = luck. Her writing is dreadfully inexperienced, but most teen readers will not care to notice. If it sounds like a vampire story clashed with a teen genre then they'll love it. While it annoys others such as I.