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Summary: one of the best vampire books around
Review: I've read a lot of books, quite a few of them having to do with vampires, and of all the vampire books I've read, this is my favorite. Ms. Baker writes a wonderfully engrossing novel here, and one I still enjoy re-reading. I strongly reccomend it. Oh yes, and to the person who wrote of those other two books by this author, are they in a series with this one or what?
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Summary: one of the best vampire books around
Review: I've read a lot of books, quite a few of them having to do with vampires, and of all the vampire books I've read, this is my favorite. Ms. Baker writes a wonderfully engrossing novel here, and one I still enjoy re-reading. I strongly reccomend it. Oh yes, and to the person who wrote of those other two books by this author, are they in a series with this one or what?
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Summary: Interesting and worth a visit
Review: Interesting story and characters. Definitely worth reading more than once.
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Summary: Well written and interesting
Review: Nancy Baker's "Kiss of the Vampire" begins with the waking of a long-dormant vampire. He has been asleep for about a century and finds out that the twentieth century holds a particularly nasty development for vampires--ultrasound. It is, therefore, rather easily that he is captured when he awakens. Shortly thereafter, Ardeth Alexander, a young graduate student, is abducted. She is taken captive and used as the food supply for the vampire.In their dismal prison, the two, predator and prey, form an uneasy alliance against their captors. Though he takes from her without giving anything back, she has sympathy for him; he is, after all, as much a prisoner as she is, and the degradations he suffers are as bad as hers. With several women dead, Ardeth knows the fate planned for her, and she must decide whether to allow him to transform her into a vampire so that she can survive somehow. "Kiss of the Vampire" (formerly "The Night Inside") is somewhat hard to classify. Certainly the vampires would seem to make the book fall within the horror genre, but the vampirism does not dominate the novel, much of which is a thriller that just happens to involve vampires. Unlike many thrillers, though, "Kiss of the Vampire" features an especially well-rounded protagonist. Ardeth Alexander is a complex character, a woman with flaws that make her seem very real. The vampire, a fifteenth-century Russian aristocrat, is also well drawn. These three-dimensional characters are what holds the book together through some of the slower spots (of which there are a few but not too many).
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Summary: Well written and interesting
Review: Nancy Baker's "Kiss of the Vampire" begins with the waking of a long-dormant vampire. He has been asleep for about a century and finds out that the twentieth century holds a particularly nasty development for vampires--ultrasound. It is, therefore, rather easily that he is captured when he awakens. Shortly thereafter, Ardeth Alexander, a young graduate student, is abducted. She is taken captive and used as the food supply for the vampire. In their dismal prison, the two, predator and prey, form an uneasy alliance against their captors. Though he takes from her without giving anything back, she has sympathy for him; he is, after all, as much a prisoner as she is, and the degradations he suffers are as bad as hers. With several women dead, Ardeth knows the fate planned for her, and she must decide whether to allow him to transform her into a vampire so that she can survive somehow. "Kiss of the Vampire" (formerly "The Night Inside") is somewhat hard to classify. Certainly the vampires would seem to make the book fall within the horror genre, but the vampirism does not dominate the novel, much of which is a thriller that just happens to involve vampires. Unlike many thrillers, though, "Kiss of the Vampire" features an especially well-rounded protagonist. Ardeth Alexander is a complex character, a woman with flaws that make her seem very real. The vampire, a fifteenth-century Russian aristocrat, is also well drawn. These three-dimensional characters are what holds the book together through some of the slower spots (of which there are a few but not too many).
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Summary: An engrossing, terrible, sad, beautiful tale.
Review: Not normally a vampire story fan, I found I couldn't put this book down (called "The Night Inside" in Canada). Like the two books after this ("Blood and Chrysanthemums", and "A Terrible Beauty"), Ms Baker has a way of creating sympathetic anti-heroes out of her vampire characters. I highly recommend this as an engrossing story you can lose yourself in. Fans of the genre, and people who normally steer clear of horror will love this book!
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Summary: An engrossing, terrible, sad, beautiful tale.
Review: Not normally a vampire story fan, I found I couldn't put this book down (called "The Night Inside" in Canada). Like the two books after this ("Blood and Chrysanthemums", and "A Terrible Beauty"), Ms Baker has a way of creating sympathetic anti-heroes out of her vampire characters. I highly recommend this as an engrossing story you can lose yourself in. Fans of the genre, and people who normally steer clear of horror will love this book!
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Summary: She is no Anne Rice
Review: Ok read, not very meaty though. Easy reading when you don't want to think too hard
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Summary: Nancy Baker is a vampire writer!
Review: the former title says it all- The Night Inside- The book was a real page turner - I hope to see more the Ardeth & Rozokov - Please Nancy write more...
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Summary: Intriguing!!
Review: This book was very difficult to put down! The characters were real, the plot believable. I have read it several times, and it gets better each time! I definitely recommend it to any who enjoy a good vampire story.
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