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Summary: The Worst of the Worst of the Worst.....
Review: This book is, hands down, the single worst vampire or romance book, or in fact book of any kind I have ever read in my life. Its SO BAD, it almost has to be read to be believed, it's almost a parody of itself. It's not the whiny, cliche'd vampire-who-wants-to-be-normal that did me in, nor even the standard female "love done me wrong" protagonist. Not even the "tortured twin vampire sister", all of which amount nothing more incredibly unoriginal than "Interview With A Vampire" tossed in a Cuisinart with any standard bodice ripper. No, what set me to giggling, all the way through, was the "bad guy vampire" ...named VALERIAN. Valerian? VALERIAN? You have to be kidding me. That's not a name, that's a sleeping remedy. Not even Anne Rice could massacre the Vampire genre this throughly, and the characters are even more hokey and pretentious than the latest V.C. Andrews tripe. Suffice to say that if you liked "Interview With A Vampire" but wanted it to have a sappy happy ending, and think that "Flowers in the Attic" was literary genius, you'll probably love this book. However, if you have an ounce of literary sense (or are over the age of 11), I recommend this book for humor value only. If you must read it, get it secondhand, and preferably with the cover removed to discourage this author from writing ever again.
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Summary: Vampire romance
Review: This is the first in a trilogy of vampire romace. Sounds a bit morbid, but they are wonderful romances. The others are Time Without End, and For All Eternity. Be sure to read them in order for the best read.
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Summary: Vampire romance
Review: This is the first in a trilogy of vampire romace. Sounds a bit morbid, but they are wonderful romances. The others are Time Without End, and For All Eternity. Be sure to read them in order for the best read.
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Summary: Sincerely Disappointing
Review: This isn't the first time that I've read anything by Miller. Unfortunately, it is the first time I've read one of her full length works and frankly, was not impressed or entertained in the slightest. First off, the characterization in this book was appalling. My biggest problem there was with the heroine. There was nothing very noteworthy at all about her, and I don't mean that she was a "Plain-Jane" heroine--she had no character whatsoever. There was absolutely nothing to explain why she did things. Why did she even love the hero? Why didn't she want to sacrifice everything to be with him? And how could they possibly be in love if they hadn't had one serious conversation with each other? In fact, they didn't have any conversations at all. There was absolutely no connection between these two as characters. They "fell in love" without knowing a thing about each other. There were no philosical discussions or even little tiny ones where they share little things with each other. There were almost NO conversing between them at ALL before they both mentally decided they were in love with each other. One reviewer gave this book five stars and claimed that many of the reviwers who disliked it were challenging the fact it had no horror in it - since it is loosely a vampire/paranormal/romance mix. I'm not complaining about the lack of horror. I'm complaining about the lack of romance and about how detached both the author seemed to be from the story, the characters were from each other and how the reader is made to feel throughout the book. Romance is more than a concept and adventures twirled into some semblance of a plot, the involvement, spirit, and personalities of the characters are neccessary to weave romance or ANY story for that matter. Forever and the Night - the story of Neely and Aidan--I'm sorry to say--wasn't romantic in the slightest.
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Summary: I LOVED THE WAY AIDEN REGRESSED INTO A HUMAN FOR LOVE
Review: THIS STORY CAPTIVATED ME. THE FACT THAT AIDEN REGRESSED BACK TO HUMAN FOR LOVE WAS WONDERFUL. THE FIRST STORY IN THIS SERIES ALSO GETS YOU READY FOR THE REMAINING BOOKS IN THE SERIES.
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Summary: This is great!
Review: What a great change of characters. The romance of a vampire...I could not put the book down. I read it out of order but it does not matter. The books stand alone with just a mention and explanation of other vampires. I found it very interesting to fall in love with a vampire. This was a wonderful book if you are interested in a new twist of love. Who says a vampire should not search a lifetime for the love of his life.
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Summary: Light on the vampire, HEAVY on the romance
Review: While I'm normally a reader of horror, I thought I'd give this series a chance. After all, I thought, vampires ARE my favorite subject, so it can't be all that bad. Realistically, they could have left the vampire angle out all together. This is pretty much a straightforward romance novel. Don't get me wrong, it was fine for some light reading (extremely light), but in my opinion, if you've read one bodice ripper, you've read them all.
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Summary: Uninteresting, unromantic... why bother?
Review: [...]Aidan is a 200-year-old vampire who hates what he is - well, similar theme to all of Amanda Ashley's books so far, but Forever And The Night had the saving grace of not being Gothic, it seemed. But I couldn't come to like Aidan, because he was incredibly selfish and self-obsessed. For example, his friend Valerian, whom I did like, risked his own life on several occasions to save Aidan from the consequences of his own stupidity, and how does Aidan repay him? He refuses even to acknowledge that Valerian is a friend. He's extremely ungrateful and rejects all overtures of friendship and good advice. Aidan doesn't want to be a vampire any more. He tells Valerian and Maeve that he can't see a single good thing about his vampiric state. I wanted to scream at him and tell him to wake up and stop lying to himself! Because of his vampire powers, and only because of those powers, he saved Neely's life several times. If he hadn't been a vampire, Neely would have been killed in chapter 3 of the book - end of story. He can travel through time and space, exercise mind control, has incredible strength: because of these things, Neely stayed alive. And Aidan claims that there's nothing good about being a vampire?? And then there's Neely - the ultimate thick-as-a-brick heroine. Other reviews have already commented on her behaviour. One thing to add: in the course of the book, she meets three vampires - Aidan, Valerian and Maeve - all of whom are kind to her and take steps to help her. And yet she's still terrified of all vampires?? And where's the romance? Aidan and Neely spend far more time apart than together, and much of the togetherness is in any case mental rather than physical. Aidan claims that he loves Neely and that he wants to protect her, both from the drug dealers and from rogue vampires - so what does he do? He leaves her alone and heads off on his crazy quest to become human again. He spends most of the book on that quest, which I found simply boring. I can't say that I'm interested in reading any more of this series. As the other reviewer said, I too was looking for a vampire *romance* - not a horror novel. I don't read horror. But there was most definitely very little romance in Forever And The Night, and the vampire hero was tedious, to say the least. I just wish that Maggie Shayne would write more vampire romances!
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