Tana lives in a futuristic world. There are humans, like Tana, and their are the dead… vampires, that live in walled cities called Coldtown. The Coldtown occupants are safe from others and can live as normal a life as possible surrounded by their kind, the undead.
One morning, after a crazy happening party with her friends, Tana wakes up to find everyone dead. Among the massacre she finds her ex boyfriend in the throws of being turned into a vampire, and another strange quiet boy hiding in a room. The three of them set off for Coldtown in hopes that Tana may be able to save them.
Eep. I really was thinking I would like this one a lot and that turned out not to be true. I found as I listened to this one on audio that I could not get a good feel for any of the characters. There was no one I wanted to say “I got your back!” to. It just left me feeling kind of ….
cold.
As I thought through this I think I have come to the conclusion that I like my vampire books more like Twilight. I know some of you just groaned and that’s ok. 😛 I admit it, I like my vampires to be just like us, looking like us, and still remaining cute and sociable and the whole “I like blood” thing takes a back seat. When you make the blood and gore the center of the story…. I lose interest… (and quite possibly my lunch).
So that is my take on the book, or in this case, audio – but I know others have loved it so look for other opinions on this one. My squeam level just couldn’t handle it.
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Yep…definitely not Edward and Bella…but I still liked it…
I couldnt handle all the gore…. a little “bloody” for me.
I might like this depending on how descriptive the gory parts are. I liked Salem’s Lot (Stephen King) and that was pretty graphic. But then, I like sensuous Ann Rice vampires too. And now that I’m thinking about, I haven’t read a vampire book since it became trendy to do so. That would be since Twlight! 😈
Ahhh… you may make it then Leslie, I have yet to get through an ANn Rice book even though I really want to read her. 😀
I don’t read vampire stories much, but like Leslie, I did LOVE Salem’s Lot. But then, I love anything King.
I have not read Salem’s Lot. Now I wonder if I missing part of something awesome….
I was excited about this one after going to BEA but I wasn’t crazy about it either.
I guess they all cant be winners Kathy 😀
I will be curious to see what I think of this when I finally get around to it.
Yes!I would love to read your review of this one… I am super curious what others will think as well.
I am listening to this one right now and am finding the narrator to be very monotone – not much emotion yet, and I keep wondering if this is deliberate.
Right Nise, I thought that too… I still am not sure if the deadpan tone was part of the “I just have to move on even if life sucks” (ha ha… pun intended)
I was disappointed too. I think because it had such HUGE hype!
Yes, I heard so much about this one and thought I must be missing out.
Remember at BEA? It was like THE book! But I find that I rarely DON’T get burned by a way-hyped book – unless the hyping comes from bloggers! :–)
Oh yeah! 😀