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Summary: Cliched, Predictable, and Just Plain Awful
Review: I really wish I hadn't finished this book. Actually, I really wish I hadn't even picked it up in the first place. What started off as a remotely promising premise turned into this horrible hack full of cliches and predictible characters, subplots, and situations. Save yourself some cash and brain cells by reading this book only if checked out from a library or purchased for a dollar at the used bookstore.
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Summary: BAT - MANIA
Review: I thought the story was simplistic, the characters completely unimaginative, the action scenes with the bats was very well written. You can tell the author was concerned more about the action scenes than he was for the rest of the story. Giant bats a little hard to swallow. I can see where this will make for an interesting movie, since the book pretty much reads like a movie. All in all a fun read.
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Summary: Builds to a Startling Anti-Climax.
Review: I was disappointed in the book. I felt like there was exposition that was unecessary. The love story was forced and contrived. I didn't care whether the characters "made it" or not. This was a great idea that simply lost its wind.
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Summary: Builds to a Startling Anti-Climax.
Review: I was disappointed in the book. I felt like there was exposition that was unecessary. The love story was forced and contrived. I didn't care whether the characters "made it" or not. This was a great idea that simply lost its wind.
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Summary: Builds to a Startling Anti-Climax.
Review: I was disappointed in the book. I felt like there was exposition that was unecessary. The love story was forced and contrived. I didn't care whether the characters "made it" or not. This was a great idea that simply lost its wind.
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Summary: Enjoyable but ultimately disappointing read
Review: I'd had high hopes for Vespers. The idea of millions of batsdescending on a major metropolitan city intent on killing people wasan exciting, thrilling idea. For the first few chapters, I wasn't disappointed. As the various bat attacks started to accumulate, my excitement grew. The writing was tight and suspenseful and I couldn't stop reading. However, once hints started to drop that something bigger (literally) was afoot, and once that realization was confirmed, I groaned. Rovin couldn't have left it the way he started out? At this point, Vespers just became yet another huge ole monster novel in my eyes. I don't see the point of the "monster". Ordinary, everyday (common-size)bats somehow turned against humanity would have been enough to develop a suspenseful thriller. No, there has to be a mutation, like there aren't thousands of mutated-species-killing-people books out there already. Even with my problems with the "monsters", the characters aren't very involving. And disappointing is some of the novel's predictability. Of course a romance had to develop. And the ending? No surprise there. Can't kill the possibility of a sequel, can we? Vespers is not a disaster; it is a quick, light read and if you can accept the monster here, you'll enjoy the book a lot. But for me the book started out great and then turned disappointing when it became more formulaic. At least I learned a lot about bats, which was interesting.
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Summary: THE BIRDS with teeth!
Review: I'm a sucker for 1950s monsters-on-the-loose stories, and this is a great one. Full of sound science, credible police precedural information, and very vivid, cinematic monster scenes, VESPERS is a fun, fun read. Can't wait for the movie!
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Summary: I bit my nails to the cuticles
Review: I'm not a big fan of horror, but I like bats. This novel is so much more than things going bump in the night. If you accept the idea that there are monster bats, everything else is very believable. The writing is fun and visual and I enjoyed the characters.
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Summary: I WANT TO KNOW HOW THIS GOT PUBLISHED
Review: I've read a book a week. I've read bad novels, good novels. But this...oh how much worse could it get?! I hate reading negetive reviews, I always feel bad for the author. They put so much into a book, but this should have gone in the NY garbage! I figured it would be fun to read since we have bata around my house. I watch them at dusk flying eraticly. I even had one flying six inches or so one night over my pool. While I sat out reading this, I couldn't help buit find myself getting very bord. Not a good book. Story line is a little too much! Giant bat kills NYC! Oh you think there could be a chance! We can only hope!!!
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Summary: Superb riff on classic themes
Review: If Stephen King had written and updated a 1950s science fiction film, this would be the result. The characters are believable and, just as important, so is the menace and the science that spawned them. A page-turner.
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