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Title: Sisters of the Night by Barbara Hambly, Martin H. Greenberg ISBN: 0-446-60052-0 Publisher: Aspect Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Alluring, Dark, Deadly, Unique
Comment: Among my large collection of vampire anthologies, this stands out. It took me a while to get to this one. I was thinking that this would be just another "girl power" anthology with cookie cutter female vampires. I'm glad that I was wrong.
The 14 stories featured in this anthology is full of unique, engaging female vampires. Not all the vampires are your typical Dracula cape and fang types. Some want a bit of your soul instead, some harvest the dead, and some aren't even easily recognizable as women, actually.
Most of the stories will have you hungering for more. The only one I really was bored with was Song of the Night People by Larry Niven. This is actually the first part of a novel and should have been left out of this anthology. It's 50 pages and doesn't really have any ending at all, so you don't know what happens unless you buy the book.
Still, if you want something different than the "normal" Dracula vampires and feel like reading something smart, funny, and original, than pick up a copy of this classic anthology.
Rating: 2
Summary: Vampires...eh.
Comment: You have to try pretty hard to convince me that anything new or interesting can be done with vampires.
SISTERS OF THE NIGHT is a collection of fifteen stories concerning female vampires, and for the most part, it doesn't try hard enough. Contained within are stories of vampires among the homeless, a dying elderly man who is visited by the vampire lover who left him decades before, a couple old world vampire tales and a detective story. There is also an excerpt from one of Larry Niven's RINGWORLD novels -- a questionable practice, as it invariably ends up looking like an advertisement for another book, as well as making it seem like the editor couldn't find enough new material to fill the page count.
There may be variety to an extent, but few of the stories are original enough or good enough to be memorable afterward. I often found myself bored as I paged through most of them. One exception is Tanith Lee's "La Dame," which offers something truly different by broadening the definitions of both "vampire" and "female." The other is Steve and Melanie Tem's "Mama," which is the type of perverse familial horror story at which both authors always excel.
If vampires in any form still fascinate you, you'll probably want to pick up this volume as you'll surely enjoy it. If, like me, you think the vampire subgenre should be laid to rest at last, pass on it or check out the above mentioned entries only. Note: Lee's story also appears in Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling's YEAR'S BEST anthology for 1995. Unfortunately, the Tems didn't make it.
Rating: 5
Summary: A fascinating collection.
Comment: If you are one of the vast number of people who are fascinated by vampire fiction, and do not have a particular prejudice against female lead characters, you will almost certainly find this an excellent read. There are a wide range of different concepts here, from the relatively traditional vampire in Barbara Hambly's "Madeline" and M. John Harrison's "Empty", to the very offbeat and high-tech "Song of the Night People" by Larry Niven. Along the way, we meet tormented souls struggling against their nature ("In the Blood", by Michael Kurland), kind and loving immortals little different from humans save for the fact that they don't age ("Tumbling Down The Nighttime", by Dean Wesley Smith), a light-hearted spoof ("Survival Skills", by Deborah Wheeler), and even a vampiric ship ("La Dame", by Tanith Lee). All of the stories are extremely well-written, and the collection as a whole is well-edited (I found only one copyediting mistake in the entire book, almost unheard-of these days).
Highly recommended for anyone with a liking (or even a lack of antipathy) for the subject matter. Some of the best vampire fiction I've read.
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Title: Kiss of the Night (A Dark-Hunter Novel) by Sherrilyn Kenyon ISBN: 0312992416 Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks Pub. Date: 06 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Single White Vampire Seeks Same by Martin H. Greenberg, Brittany A. Koren ISBN: 0886779227 Publisher: Daw Books Pub. Date: 09 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison ISBN: 0060572965 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 27 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Single White Vampire by Lynsay Sands ISBN: 0505525526 Publisher: Love Spell Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Reflections of a Vampire by Damion Kirk ISBN: 0971855056 Publisher: Rahu Books Pub. Date: 12 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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