Vampires Promise

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Summary: Vampires Promise
Review: I didn't like this book at all, but the author tricked me a few times. I thought the book would scare me but it didn't so I gave it two star rating. My favorite part was the beginning when stuff started happening.

Rating:
Summary: Vampires Promise
Review: I didn't like this book at all, but the author tricked me a few times. I thought the book would scare me but it didn't so I gave it two star rating. My favorite part was the beginning when stuff started happening.

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Summary: I love Caroline's Descriptions!
Review: I just wanted to say Caroline B. Cooney has done it again. I love how she describes everything very clearly. I loved all three of the books. I hope this book is republished again, for those who didn't get a chance to read it.

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Summary: Original
Review: I loved this book it really made you look at the diffrent charicters and how they really thought about the other charicters. They each think it shouldn`t be them. It really gives you a look at everyones dark side, and your dark side as well. Although when the others are bringing out there selfish sides, some are finding the good that they always had, but never showed.

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Summary: Passable, but nothing great
Review: Why oh why can't anyone seem to write a decent vampire book? What a waste of a good genre.

This book was okay, but I wouldn't bother reading it again. Thankfully, it was quite short. The premise of this book is that a vampire traps a group of teens in a haunted house, and forces them to choose which one of them shall be his victim. As a plot, that sounds interesting, doesn't it? A kind of an undead Sophie's Choice. However, I soon found that most of the teenagers were so annoying and superfluous that by fifteen pages into the book I was barracking for the vampire to do away with the lot of them! The teens get slightly less annoying as time goes on, but not enough to make me like them...except for Lacey, who's the only decent character.

Not only were the teens annoying, but the author's writing left a lot to be desired too. I felt like saying to her: enough adjectives already! The author spent too much time saying that things were like other things (i.e. 'pinned to the atmosphere like a Velcro wall-jumper' and other similarly weird similes), and not enough time actually developing the plot. There were some interesting observations on the thoughts and relationships of teenagers, but these were counterbalanced with huge logic gaps, especially in the conclusion. Also, the writing style was pedestrian, with a real 'first novel', rushed feel.

Still, if you're a teen who likes vampire stories, but you don't want them to be scary, then you'll probably like this.