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Summary: A Gothic Masterpiece
Review: "Sunglasses After Dark" is a book that haunts you days after you finish it. Nancy Collins masterfully takes us into a dark and violent world where things are never what they seem. After reading Anne Rice's books I thought that no one could come even close to her originality when talking about vampires, but this book proved me wrong. It pulls no punches and spares no graphic details. I love that in an author and in a book. Read this book. You won't regret it.
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Summary: A modern classic to keep in the library
Review: Although the synopsis as written here is actually the plot line to Nancy A. Collins' book "Wild Blood", "Sunglasses After Dark" is one the best vampire novels I've ever read. Sonja Blue is a very complex and sympathic character in the same manner as LeStat and like the early Anne Rice vampire novels, you find yourself getting mental impressions from the detailed story lines long after reading the book. This is definitely one to keep and read 2 or 3 times.
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Summary: Blue gets [mistreated]
Review: How this series remains so widely ignored is beyond me. Perhaps Sonja Blue gets [mistreated] by other books because it predates more current popular series. Start reading it, start loving it. Stop wasting time on newer stuff until you have read this. Love the complexity and originality of her writing. Her charater is three-dimensional, not just colorful adjectives on paper. There is a practicality you will find shared between Nancy's A. Collins' Sonja Blue and Laurell K. Hamiltons' Anita Blake that is refreshing. Although the characters share the job description of vampire hunter, they are very different - one being a vampire and one being human - they each lend a new perspective on the genre.
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Summary: Best Vamp Book Ever
Review: I have never been the type who went for reading the adventures of werewolves & vampires, etc., but Nancy Collins Sonya Blue series was able to persuade me otherwise. I first read Sunglasses in college and found that not only did I like it, but could not put the book down. Sonya Blue is definitely nothing like that OTHER well known vampire writer's protagonist, LeWuss, I mean, well, you know who I mean...Sonya Blue is unlike any vampire you'll ever read about. In the first installment, we are introduced to a badass Sonya, and Nancy Collins has a way of making the reader care about this badass. Not only is the story compelling, but if you read the subsequent Sonya Blue books, you'll see that the character development meets and exceeds all expectations. I have read all four novels in the Sonya Blue collection and simply cannot say enough positive things about the series. My favorite book happens to be In the Blood, but the reader would be doing a great disservice to himself not to read the other books.
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Summary: Best Vamp Book Ever
Review: I have never been the type who went for reading the adventures of werewolves & vampires, etc., but Nancy Collins Sonya Blue series was able to persuade me otherwise. I first read Sunglasses in college and found that not only did I like it, but could not put the book down. Sonya Blue is definitely nothing like that OTHER well known vampire writer's protagonist, LeWuss, I mean, well, you know who I mean...Sonya Blue is unlike any vampire you'll ever read about. In the first installment, we are introduced to a badass Sonya, and Nancy Collins has a way of making the reader care about this badass. Not only is the story compelling, but if you read the subsequent Sonya Blue books, you'll see that the character development meets and exceeds all expectations. I have read all four novels in the Sonya Blue collection and simply cannot say enough positive things about the series. My favorite book happens to be In the Blood, but the reader would be doing a great disservice to himself not to read the other books.
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Summary: Very creative- lady vampire!
Review: NAC has created a wonderfully written book on a vapire woman who was created only to hate her creator. I believe she would annihilate her makeer, had she the chance and skill and power. This is a must have for your personal library! Spooky, scary,and it gets your heart pounding! I also recommend "Eternal Undying Love" by Brett Keane
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Summary: Slow Start; Confusing Prose
Review: The book starts in an asylum where "Blue, S." is the newest addition to the Danger Ward. Her interior monolog is awkwardly written; the segues into the life of an orderly and the antics of a female tele-evangelist seem more like poorly written subplots than actual narrative elements. Finally, around page 116, Sonja Blue breaks out of her institutional prison, and the pace picks up.Sonja's descriptions of her "birth" (becoming a vampire) and her years slumming around Europe are interesting, sometimes tasteless. The hunting sprees (she hunts other vampires) add some action, but are more or less pointless. The final climactic event (Sonja vs. Crazed Tele-evangelist) was one other high point, but on the scale of Sonja's life doesn't register higher than a blip. Thus, the entire book seems like an excuse to waste paper and the ending screams "sequel" but I won't be reading it. Sonja Blue is not a badass. She is a scarred, deeply disturbed girl (disappointingly, she became a vampire because she was stupid, and then runs around hating her maker). The book itself is filled with blood and guts, tasteless sex, none of it exceptionally well-written. Get this one from the library.
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Summary: I heard someone ask where the film is....
Review: This book rocks. period. and about the film, bud, if you actually READ the book, you know that with today's cencorship problems, there is no way the film would be released in the US. on to the review! let me just say that if you love vampires, are strong of stomach, and don't get offended too easily, READ THIS BOOK! Our main character is Sonja Blue, a renegade vampire, vampire slayer, owner of Renfeilds, and prostitute (sometimes). This book was really graphic, as were the illustrations sometimes. but i must say that to this day it is my favorite book, a close second being The Long Hard Road Out Of Hell, by Marilyn Manson, but that's another story. The story aside, this book is extremely realistic, and doesn't balance it's weight on iffy situations. Sonja's extreme suberbness, wasn't just a fluke, as so many movies are clicheing so much, she was a mess up, the byproduct of her creator's uncarefulness. My friend showed me this book, and since then i have gotten two more people into Sonja Blue, and i hope i can get you in too. Beautiful book, stunning story, vampiric vixen, what more could a guy ask for?
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Summary: I heard someone ask where the film is....
Review: This book rocks. period. and about the film, bud, if you actually READ the book, you know that with today's cencorship problems, there is no way the film would be released in the US. on to the review! let me just say that if you love vampires, are strong of stomach, and don't get offended too easily, READ THIS BOOK! Our main character is Sonja Blue, a renegade vampire, vampire slayer, owner of Renfeilds, and prostitute (sometimes). This book was really graphic, as were the illustrations sometimes. but i must say that to this day it is my favorite book, a close second being The Long Hard Road Out Of Hell, by Marilyn Manson, but that's another story. The story aside, this book is extremely realistic, and doesn't balance it's weight on iffy situations. Sonja's extreme suberbness, wasn't just a fluke, as so many movies are clicheing so much, she was a mess up, the byproduct of her creator's uncarefulness. My friend showed me this book, and since then i have gotten two more people into Sonja Blue, and i hope i can get you in too. Beautiful book, stunning story, vampiric vixen, what more could a guy ask for?
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Summary: very good book!
Review: This book was one of the first vampire books I had ever read. It was great and it started my love of the vampire stereotype.
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