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Title: Kiss of the Vampire by Nancy Baker ISBN: 0-449-14957-9 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 27 September, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.21 (24 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Stays with you long after reading it..
Comment: When I first read this novel I was 12 years old and like the review below, hated it. It wasn't at all like other vampire romances I had read..not overly happy or full of pretty images. But, somehow, every time I'd try to give the book away something stopped me. The images in the story always came to mind because deep down I think Nancy Baker paints a picture of how vampires would act if they were real. It may not be pretty, some of the things Ardeth and Rozokov do, but they *are* blood drinking *vampires* after all,it's their nature. This book is for readers that don't mind a darker more realistic romance between two hunters of the night. Ardeth faces many parts of the meaning of being "alive" in this book which I think will make anyone stop and think.
Rating: 2
Summary: Unromantic and pretty horrible, really.
Comment: Ardeth, a graduate student, is kidnapped one day as she's already terrified about some friends of hers who have disappeared. She isn't killed, as she fears, but thrown into a cell to be the food source for a vampire, Dmitri Rozokov, who has been a prisoner since he woke from a hundred-year sleep a couple of weeks earlier. But being fed on every night can't really do a lot for someone's health - how long can Ardeth stay alive? Or will she choose some other way of surviving?
This book isn't a love story. Get that idea out of your head straight away. If you want a vampire romance, go somewhere else. There is a nice kiss while Ardeth is still a prisoner, but that's about it for romance. For example, after Ardeth's transformation and their break for freedom (referred to in other reviews), they go on a killing spree, and then Baker refers, in ONE SENTENCE, to them having sex among the dead bodies. Nope, not one bit romantic.
In any case, Ardeth and Dmitri then spend much of the remainder of the book separated. The body-count increases from then on, and the violence and brutality continues. Not a pleasant read.
This book won't be staying in my house, and nor will I be reading anything else by Nancy Baker. I like vampire romances, but this certainly doesn't qualify.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Vampire Story
Comment: I am a collector of vampire novels, and after reading a few recommendations, I picked up Nancy Baker's "Kiss of the Vampire" (which by the way is also "The Night Inside)." Do not make the mistake of picking up both books like I did. It is the exact same story.
Ardeth is a graduate student living at college. She just finished a project with two of her friends (also graduate students). She is saddened when one of her friends and ex-lover dies, but that sadness also becomes wariness when the second person she was working on the project with also dies. Also, she felt at one point that she was being followed.
Her fears become reality, when while jogging on campus one morning, she is literally snatched by two men, thrown in a van, and knocked out. When Ardeth recovers she finds herself locked in a cell, with a vampire in another cell next door named Dimitri Rozokov. She finds out that she has been kidnapped to be his food source. She is terrified of the vampire, but as time passes, she realizes she is even more horrified by her sadistic kidnappers (who are making [some] snuff films for profit using the vampire).
As the days pass, Ardeth begins to see the vampire Dimitri as a person, and as they get closer, she realizes her and Dimitri will have to come up with a plan to outsmart the kidnappers. But just how far is she willing to go to live?
I don't want to give too much away, but this is an excellent, excellent story. I really enjoyed all of the characters. I would highly recommend (...).
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Title: Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris ISBN: 0441011675 Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: 04 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Blood and chrysanthemums : a vampire novel by Nancy Baker ISBN: 0670856223 Publisher: Viking Pub. Date: 1994 |
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Title: I Burn For You by Susan Sizemore ISBN: 0743467426 Publisher: Pocket Star Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Blood Is Thicker Than Water by Wynette A. Hoffman ISBN: 0972109803 Publisher: Alien Perspective Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Single White Vampire by Lynsay Sands ISBN: 0505525526 Publisher: Love Spell Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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