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Summary: EXCELLENT!
Review: This book reached far back into the mind of the surreal imagination and combines it with the dark fantasy of the yearning heart. Amelia Atwater-Rhodes is an excellent author for creating something so tempting to read. She did a superb job of feeling what the character felt and being very descriptive. Everyone should read it!
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Summary: A Book for Teens, by a Teen
Review: Amelia Atwater-Rhodes creates a dark and mysterious world of the night. You don't know whether to lover or hate the vampiric characters. Atwater-Rhodes desctribes the vampires as beautiful, but makes their actions seem vile. You live the life of a young vampire and meet her enemies in her struggle to stay sane in a world where life doesn't matter.
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Summary: The best book written by a teen for a teen
Review: When I bought the book In the forests of the Night, I thought that this book was probably going to be boring. The day my mom had to go to the doctor, I took my book and began to read it while I waited. I was so into this book. It had lively characters and so well written that it will keep you up trying to finish it. I finished it in 1 day. It is short, plus the only breaks I had was dinnertime. I was disappointed in one part because the cover spoke of romance. I thought that maybe Aubrey or The main character, Risika, fell in love with one another. well that didn't happen but the book is seroiusly good. Plus it is written by a teenage girl who has an imaginary fantasy. Some of the people in the reviews wrote that she is a bad writer. Well she is not,,why don't you try to write a novel that has a plot, exposition, a climax, and a conflict crammed into the short book. Its kinda difficult considering that you also have to have good grammar. by the way the last part of the book was good. Risika got revenge on Aubrey, but she didn't kill him. And in few words this is the summary, Risika before known as Rachel, is three hundred years old. she was killed in 1701 by Ather, who later becomes her blood moother. Aubrey is her rival. She hunts the nights to feed on humans. She seeks revenge on Aubrey for he killed her brtoher, which at the end of the story there is a twist. My summary probably doesn't sound good but read this book anyway.Well I hope this is enought information.
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Summary: Imagination of a teen =8*
Review: I'm glad to see a fellow teenager writing using such detail. And even more so of how many enjoy reading it. I hope the vampire novel I am soon to have completed becomes near as enjoyable. :0) A fellow writer, Victoria M. (age 14)
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Summary: A good start for a fellow writer
Review: Being a writer of sorts myself, I was very impressed with the fact that Amelia actually got her book published, something I have yet to do. I think "In the forest of the night" is an impressive start to a promising writing career. I congradulate amelia on her sucess, but would also like to say that there are some major flaws. first off, the ending was very dissapointing and brief, much like many of mine. It was as if she was ready to start a new book so she finished this one in a hurry without fully developing the plot and characters. Im sure she was capable of making this at least 300 hundred pages. The plot is kind of fuzzy around the edges and some things aren't made clear. Like, What did Risika do for 300 years? she seems to remember the night she was changed vividly, yet none of her other past is mentioned? And none of the characters are really developed and there are so many of them who could keep track? Risika's personality is never fully described, and when it is no reason is given. But who am I to complain? This book is better than any of mine, so now that im done critzing I'll go on the praise. One of my favorite things about the book is the way Amelia pays so much attention to detail. Like the tiger stripes in Risika's hair or the way she describes Aubrey's features. Obviously, since this book was her debut Amelia hasn't fully discovered her talent for writing. But there some elements you can see that suggest a vivid imagination and what will most definatly develop in a promising career. I congradulate Amelia on accomplishing what I have yet to do.
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Summary: A new vampire writer to review this work
Review: While I have hunted down this book with high expectations, thinking to myself "OMG! a teen writer?" However, from the first page I was skeptical. The present tense is terrible. The chapters are barely one page in NORMAL book fonting! Characters pop in, get named, and leave. There's very little devlopement, Risika seems too powerful for her time (and too outspoken! dear lord!) Aubrey is annoying, just as Armand was annoying. Ather is cool, though. Ather was the only one with any developement. I think Ms. Atwater-Rhodes needs to not worry about focusing on a million characters and focus on working with a few and a distinct mythology, storyline, etc. Bouncing back and forth between two tiem periods coudl have been done in a different way. I say we all wait before calling her the vampire queen, the next Anne Rice, and so forth! I have it in good knowledge that there's going to be someone new in the night and they'll be the next Bram Stoker!
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: All I can say is awesome! The book was very well written and contained a lot of description. Despite the fact that it's fiction, the imagery and vocabulary used made it seem kind of realistic. I will admit it wasn't very scary but it was suspenseful and intense. You have this 17 yr. old girl who is supposed to be this almost 300 yr. old vampire living by herself, while still battling the demons she had from the day her "innocence was taken away." You could sense the passion and love she had for her brother and family. Then it's all taken away from her within seconds. I guess there's a message within the book; Don't take anything for granted because it can all be taken away in a blink of an eye.
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Summary: Quite an amazing work for a fellow teen
Review: Unfortunately, I have read better. I don't mean that I've read better books by teens, that is almost not possible. I mean, I've read "fanfiction" or original short stories and novel length stories, that can dwarf the writings of Anne Rice and Steven King. It is only the free reign of shear creativity that allowed some of these writers to master their craft at the age of 12-16. This book cannot top them, only because of the constrictions of the printed word. The fact of the matter is, though, this book reads like a Vampire Chronicles fanfiction, mixed in with a bit of Steven King. I liked it, but the entire time I was reading it, I felt as if I was reading a fanfiction, because there was no reality to it. It felt as though she was not taking the work seriously, and was writing towards a non-paying audience, or herself. She's got everything from a 9.5 fanfiction, a Mary Sue character that is blatantly cliche'd but still amazingly interesting, she's got psuedo-action that doesn't take itself seriously, and she's got every reference imaginable to her own life. Very fanficy. I did like it though, so that's why I gave it four stars. I do suggest buying it, for it is a worthwhile read, and quite cheap. I'd hold off on the sequel, though, until it comes out in Mass Paperback.
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Summary: Amazing, rovoting, a twisting plot!
Review: Amelia Atwater-Rhodes did a fair job of this book. I would like to point out a few mistakes of the reviewers however: 1. Amelia is no longer 14. She is actually 16, almost 17. 2. She said clearly in the book that Risika did not know anything about her name, and did not care to find out, at the current moment. On with the rewiew! In The Forests of the Night is a book about vampiress Risika. Talking about her past of how she was changed against her will into a vampire, she is one of the strongest in the world. She discusses her relationship with Aubrey-her blood brother, only by vampire means, and the war they have been waging. I found this book interesting, because I would like to become an author one day, nearly completing my first book. This book is excellent.
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Summary: Two Stars. One for her Age. One for Getting Published.
Review: Well, kudos to the young author for writing a novel at her age. She is an inspiration. And deserves all the publicity she received. And way to go in even getting taken seriously by an agent and a publishing company. Those are her two stars! What an amazing accomplishment. But alas, it's a real world out there. There's not much in this slim volume to get excited over. You never get a sense of why the main character is so bitter and has held a grudge for 300 years. And why now after all this time does she decide it's time to act upon it? What was the spark that led the events of this story to take place? And please remember, you can't wrap it all up with a surprise in one page at the end. Reading about vampires is always fun to me. But a book has to come from somewhere and lead you somewhere. Admirable.
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