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Summary: No Guano ... you'll really like this book!
Review: If you want a book that's well-researched, has good characterization, and has a great hook-line...Giant bats and their buddies taking over New York... then, by all means, pick up a copy of "Vespers"! I'd give it 4 and 1/2 stars, but Amazon.com does not permit that kind of rating.This was the first book that I've read by Jeff Rovin, but it won't be my last. He's a very good story-teller who's done his homework. "Vespers" contains great action, a descriptive tour of New York and a lot of information about bats that I'm sure most people never knew before. The story nevers bogs down because Rovin skillfully weaves a number of little sub-plots throughout the book. Not one to give away much of the plot, let me just say that the story is set in present-day and contains more than a few unnerving scenes of violence. Giant bats have begun to breed and multiply after an accident involving radiation affects the growth pattern of one of the bats. A gutsy "batologist" and a brave detective are all that stand between New York and annihilation. This is a very quick read and is great escapism. I heartedly recommend it to those who grew up when the great old "B" movies of the 50's and 60's told of man's encounters with radioactive ants ("Them"), 8-foot tall "carrot-men" from another world ("The Thing") and giant Japanese monsters (Godzilla).
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Summary: Scary and fun
Review: If you want deep and memorable characters, read Thomas Mann. If you want chills and excitement, along with dynamite action, read Vespers. Just when you think the police and scientists have everything under control, the author throws something new at you, always unexpected and exciting. Enjoy.
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Summary: As the beastly bat came, the the people just dissapered
Review: It was one of the best books I have EVER read! While camping and reading, the book chills down my spine. My complements to the Author!I may be only 12 but if you are interested in reading and you have some IQ then you will fall right into the book like I did!
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Summary: Mutant bats infest the Big Apple.
Review: Jeff Rovin's novel is a very simple, straight forward monster story. A b-movie with all the awesome A-movie special effects eight imaginative fingers and two thumbs can peck out on a typewriter keyboard. What lifts this novel above three stars is the obviously huge amount of homework Rovin did on bats and how they live almost unseen in the urban jungle. Highly recommended to monster story buffs.
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Summary: you're better off waiting for the paperback!
Review: Not a bad book, but not as good as I thought it would be after reading some of these reviews. There are some pretty tense scenes and the info you get on bats is really amazing but the book never really takes off. It will be interesting to see what Touchstones Pictures does with this. If you can wait for the paperback do so, instead go out and get anything by Robert McCammon, that man can write a book and scare the living hell out of you.
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Summary: Scary fun
Review: OK. So the premise is a little loopy, as some readers have pointed out: an army of bats are controlled by a pair of giant mutant bats. But if you accept that (and I did), this is one heck of a ride. Suspense, believable characters in an unbelievable situation, and some exciting chases, hunts, stalkings, killings, and more. A fresh look at a very old but fun sci-fi genre!
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Summary: one of the scariest books I've ever read
Review: One of the best books I've ever read. I couldn't put it down because it kept me in suspense from cover to cover
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Summary: This one is a real page turner!
Review: Since I'm in Highschool, my teachers always keep me reading. I basically hated reading adult books, until I read this. I loved the bat attack scenes. They were my favorite. The attacks were gory, discriptive, and life-like. And since I think bats are the coolest, this book was perfect.
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Summary: Educational
Review: Summary:
Vespers is about a couple of mutated bats that have been descended from one radioactive bat in Siberia, brought to this country, by a scientist. The story starts off by a little leaguer being mauled by normal, insect eating bats, in a town north of NYC. Upon further investigation, authorities find a full sized deer strung several feet up a tree, with teeth marks.
Enter Nancy Joyce, bat expert, and detective Robert Gentry. A larger bat is on the loose, the size of a bull, using echolocation and its non human squeals to have the smaller vespers attack people. This big bat makes its way to the NYC subway system, while people go missing. Joyce and Gentry track the origin of the mutated bat down to a man in New Paltz, New York, who was in Siberia 10 years earlier. In New Paltz, they see evidence of another large bat. So, there are two to deal with. One a male, the other a pregnant female. Gotta destroy the bats, before she gives birth to more large mutated bats, that feast on humans, and in the populated environs of New York City. Likes: For me, this was a very educational book. Learning how bats behave, and locate their food, send signals to other bats...etc. It was an average thriller, although I've read better horror books with bats involved, this was more science orieneted. Also a little history lesson on the Statue of Liberty! Dislikes: The story was somewhat lame, and rarely did I feel like I was in a state of suspense. Pretty predictable. Finally: Don't mix radioactive waste with the animal kingdom, a la Godzilla, you never know what could happen.
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Summary: Educational
Review: Summary:
Vespers is about a couple of mutated bats that have been descended from one radioactive bat in Siberia, brought to this country, by a scientist. The story starts off by a little leaguer being mauled by normal, insect eating bats, in a town north of NYC. Upon further investigation, authorities find a full sized deer strung several feet up a tree, with teeth marks.
Enter Nancy Joyce, bat expert, and detective Robert Gentry. A larger bat is on the loose, the size of a bull, using echolocation and its non human squeals to have the smaller vespers attack people. This big bat makes its way to the NYC subway system, while people go missing. Joyce and Gentry track the origin of the mutated bat down to a man in New Paltz, New York, who was in Siberia 10 years earlier. In New Paltz, they see evidence of another large bat. So, there are two to deal with. One a male, the other a pregnant female. Gotta destroy the bats, before she gives birth to more large mutated bats, that feast on humans, and in the populated environs of New York City. Likes: For me, this was a very educational book. Learning how bats behave, and locate their food, send signals to other bats...etc. It was an average thriller, although I've read better horror books with bats involved, this was more science orieneted. Also a little history lesson on the Statue of Liberty! Dislikes: The story was somewhat lame, and rarely did I feel like I was in a state of suspense. Pretty predictable. Finally: Don't mix radioactive waste with the animal kingdom, a la Godzilla, you never know what could happen.
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