NOCTURNAS : NOCTURNAS

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Summary: nonstop thrills and chills!
Review: A American reporter doing a story on the fall of communism in Romania makes a terrfying discovery.Vampires have taken over
the country's dread secret police and start a reign of bloody terror of the populace.The only one that can stop them are the
Reporter who's family background makes him ideal in fighting vampires and harb-boiled female rebel leader.This novel has
nonstop action and chills and boast a sinister villian in Jarek Calnelian, the sadistic and ancient vampire leader who makes
Dracula look like a sissy.Nocturas also has memorable characters such Silas Freeborn, the charming and ruthless crimelord
who later employs Calnelian and soon learns to regret it.Clavin Asaro, the DEA agent who is obessed in catching
Freeborn.This is a chilling saga of revenge and bloodletting that spans two continents and leads to memorable climaz.

Rating:
Summary: A Yawner
Review: Shawn Ryan takes a slightly interesting idea--that Ceaucescu's reign in Romania was supported by vampires in charge of the Romanian secret police--and then does nothing with it. Ryan's writing style is mundane if not amateurish ("he was reduced to urine-filled pants") and the plot is unexciting, dividing its attention between standard Old World vampire tropes and contemporary Anne Ricean chi-chi vampirism. The members of the Securitate (the Romanian secret police) turn out to be either garden-variety anonymous stormtroopers or garden-variety vampires. Adam Chase, our hero, is a poor duplication of Dirk Pitt, with a magic walking stick. Pass on this one.

Rating:
Summary: A Yawner
Review: Shawn Ryan takes a slightly interesting idea--that Ceaucescu's reign in Romania was supported by vampires in charge of the Romanian secret police--and then does nothing with it. Ryan's writing style is mundane if not amateurish ("he was reduced to urine-filled pants") and the plot is unexciting, dividing its attention between standard Old World vampire tropes and contemporary Anne Ricean chi-chi vampirism. The members of the Securitate (the Romanian secret police) turn out to be either garden-variety anonymous stormtroopers or garden-variety vampires. Adam Chase, our hero, is a poor duplication of Dirk Pitt, with a magic walking stick. Pass on this one.