The Vampire Chronicles are Dead.
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Definitely NOT like her other "Vampire" books.  Redundant.  Sometimes just skimmed over whole sections.  Not worth reading.
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Sadly, the American Vampire monthly comic series came to an end a few months back. Fans were left clinging on to hope that every once in a while writer Scott Snyder would throw us a bone in the form of a one-off or mini-series featuring the undead characters we've all come to know and love.

The first one, An American Vampire Special: The Long Road to Hell, has arrived and serves as a tasty reminder of why readers are still obsessed with the ongoing saga. It also ushers in the good news that we will get a relaunch of the monthly title later this year.

An American Vampire Special: The Long Road to Hell transports us back to Nebraska in 1959. We've all heard a story like it before. Two young lovers hit the open road in a stolen car. However, this is no joyride. These two, known as the "Heartbreak Killers," are not your normal freewheeling lovers. They're hungry vampires fighting the urge to feed. If that's not bad enough, they're in big trouble and running from a pack of enraged vampires and undead hunter Travis Kidd.

Writers Scott Snyder and Rafael Albuquerque give us yet another gift to entertain us and serve as a reminder of why we fell in love with the "American Vampire" saga to begin with. Although The Long Road to Hell is a simple story and nicely wrapped up in one issue, it's a magnificent addition to what's come before. The emotional conclusion of the tale is tragically poetic and will bring to mind the depressing tones of "Interview with a Vampire" and "Romeo and Juliet" without sacrificing the intensity and vigor we expect from the series.

Rafael Albuquerque's artwork is as immaculate as ever. He continues to keep the vampires visually scary and doesn't skimp on the gore. There are great full page illustrations of action that will catch the reader's attention and keep them turning pages.

The comic features some bad language, graphic violence, and a good amount of blood. It's suggested for mature readers by Vertigo and the warning should be heeded. However, there's nothing here you wouldn't see in an R-rated horror film.

An American Vampire Special: The Long Road to Hell should be classified as a horror comic. However, there's so much more to it. It's a complex tale of two lovers running from an unwanted destiny that was forced upon them. They desire to be together but fate won't allow it. It just so happens that the agents of fate in this case are undead creatures and a vampire slayer disguised as a greaser. It will definitely make fans of American Vampire happy as they wait for more.
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After learning of their existence, the humans have set out to destroy all vampires and werewolves, save for a few specimens that they plan to use for biological testing. Selene, the vampire death-dealer, awakens 12 years after being captured to discover that she now has a daughter, a vampire/werewolf hybrid who is the last of the Covinus line. Together, they are the only hope for survival for their dying breed! 'UNDERWHELMING' is a better title for the third entry in this struggling series, which places action and special effects ahead of story and character in another pointless chapter. AWAKENING is the least favorable of any of the sequels, boasting the worst looking computerized creatures yet in a tiring display of cartoon violence. The mythology between the two clans that once captivated audiences seems like an afterthought now as the direction of the series becomes increasingly unclear. The addition of teen star India Eisley as Eve seems questionable in a hard "R" Horror film, especially if she is to become the focus of future entries. Kate Beckinsale may look good in black, but she phones in another emotionless performance as Selene. Mns Mrlind and Bjrn Stein successfully maintain the same style and tone as the other films, but their eye for action is found lacking. While UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING may not be the end of the series, another sequel like this will surely bury it.

-Carl Manes
I Like Horror Movies
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What can I say, the original three books are great, the fourth, is also good. The latest three are horrendous. I really hoped that this last one might in some way make up for the previous two, but it in no way did. It is written like bad fan-fiction. You can't write a series, then twenty years later add more to it, and the last three installments of this series are the very definition of why.

Sorry to say it L.J.Smith because I do love you, but you really should have quit while you were ahead.

:(
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I was captured by the first book and was really looking forward to seeing relationships and the story develop in book 2. However I felt Kiss of Death was drawn out and held very little about the development in Raphael and Susan's relationship. Though Gabriel and Carissa's story was interesting with some facts that linked all the characters together, for me it held little relevance in the overall problem this series portrayed which was Richelieu coming to power. I read through Kiss of Revenge quickly hoping it would pull everything together. It did pull everything together in a very anticlimactic way. First let down was Gabriel and Carissa got married and then boom she died of old age. Long story abruptly ended with little explanation as to what their life was like after getting married. Second let down was Pierre's whole tie into the story, he accuses Carissa and drops her in the prison where she meets Gabriel, gets turned into a vampire, and centuries later gives some information to Susan, blah blah blah, boom stake in the heart and he's dead. He seemed to play a big part in all 3 books with little relevance in anything in the story other than being the how Carissa and Gabriel met and how Susan's grandmother got the necklace years later. He seemed to be a character whose story was drawn out and had little to do with the overall problem of hunting down Richelieu. Third let down was the lack of evidence in development in Raphael and Susan's relationship. Most of their time was spent apart. Either one of them getting captured or searching for Richelieu or saving the other, but hardly were they ever together and "getting to know" each other that would result in falling in love like Gabriel and Carissa. Raphael and Susan are the main characters, yet their relationship was the most anticlimactic of the all the relationships in the series. Richelieu's demise was boring. The whole issue with Vampire's being cursed until they learned to turn from their ways never went anywhere. They're still cursed even when they do turn from their ways. A lot of different issues were brought up and ended abruptly that left with more questions than answers and closure. Anyways, I could go on and on and further explain, but overall I had high hopes for this series being its about vampires with a Christian twist and was left bored and disappointed. Fun read but I won't read it again or recommend.
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These books are simply horrible. They have large gaps in the plot but the worst part is the shallow nature of the characters. The girls in all three books want to be pretty or popular. For these silly aspirations they hand over their friends to the vampire. Do they feel bad afterwards, have a moral conflict perhaps? Hardly. They easily justify their betrayals because they get asked out by a cute boy or they get to hang out at the coolest table. I wasn't only disappointed with my purchase, I was disgusted.
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Loved these books when I was a kid, but damn this one was dull. There was no tension. When did vampires become so nice and moral?
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This book finally has the Witch standing up to her father, but the fight is over so soon, it was anti-climactic. And the Vampire guards, all of them (the Witch, Wolf & Vampire) go back to the house without making sure all of their enemies are dead, setting the stage for Book 3. Once again the book is more about sex and all the constant talk about keeping their little mate safe. Other than a few mentions of the Vampire taking care of some business matters, none of the characters does anything except eat, have sex, shower, sleep & then it all starts over again. There just isn't much character development. I am going to pass on Book 3. I like characters who have thoughts that make me laugh, in between what they do for a living with whatever powers they possess.
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They came all alive but they did not survive . They all died. What a disappointment .
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I was so looking forward to more vampire chronicles. This book rehashed bits and pieces of Anne's other vampire works, but there was little here to make you love, or hate Pandora.  More than half of the book set up Pandora's 35 year pre-vampire life- who cares? she lived 2000 years as a vampire- and this is not even touched upon in this book. The Pandora Anne Rice brings to us is just not a very interesting character. I was very dissapointed.
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Really, I liked the movie cuz it had good music and the over all feel was pretty good, but it NEVER followed the damn book. Seriously, whoever wrote the screenplay for the movies deserves to have all their blood sucked out by a vengeful vampire... Some reasons why... Lestat was NOT made by Marius. Marius BARELY played a part in the real Queen of the Damned. Akasha had trapped him, and he never was at the concert. Hell, none of Lestat's buddies were there except Louis. The vampires also attacked AFTER the concert... And Jesse was made a vampire by Mahaeret. Mahaeret also had a twin sister named Mekare, who was the queen of the damned at the end of the novel. NOT Mahaeret. They screwed everything up! Everyone's apperances, (Lestat and Marius were both blonde, not brunette), all the major events, and just the entire movie was wrong. All wrong... There was never a girl with a violin either. His friend Nicholas was the violinist. And Nicholas committed suicide shortly after becoming a vampire. So yeah... All wrong.
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I wasn't even half done with this book when I came to the realization that I'm done with this series.
I am not buying another vampire for hire book.  The writing isn't even good.  Some parts of this book felt like it was just thrown in there to lengthen the book.  If you want to a good read on this genre than read Elizabeth Hunter 's Elemental World series.  Her writing is great, characters are
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I WAS SO DISSAPOINTED AFTER I READ BOOK BECUZ IT WAS BORING AND WASTED MY TIME.WHICH WAS TO TELL ME NONSENSE OF VAMPIRE BEING USED IN THAT BOOK SO I WOULDN'T LIKE THIS BOOK.
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The books is dull, boring. Having read many of her vampire novels, I expected better from Anne Rice.
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After waiting three years for the third Frankenstein book to come out, I was VERY disapointed. I thoroughly enjoyed the first two books.  In fact, I re-read them this month so I would be back up to speed when the third book was released.  What a waste of time that was.  The main characters from the other books barely resembled themselves in the third book.  Some of the great secondary characters and situations from the other books were only menitoned in passing and loose ends were never tied up.  Strange and insignificant characters were introduced for a page or two in this book.  Why, I am not sure.  I think that after three years, Koontz should have re-read his own two previous Frankenstein books to remember what the fans would be expecting from this one.  You expect after the detectives are going after Victor Helios for three books, the whole thing would end in a much better way than it did. (Not going to spoil it for those people who feel like boring themselves by reading this book).  Final thought...Frankenstein Dead & Alive was NOT a book worth waiting for.
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Lestat is back and he's a bore.
Couldn't get into the navel gazing vampire this time around or the "new" characters, why?
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In Blue Bloods, De La Cruz presents a unique view on vampires in that they are fallen angels that are vying for redemption and re-entrance into heaven.  Vampires are not created by exchanging blood with humans; they are souls that take on new human shells and new lives.  I really wanted to like the Blue Bloods series, but I felt that there was no character development.  There is simply not much depth to the characters.  Schuyler falls for Jack, but we don't know why other than that he is the most gorgeous guy in school.  Mimi is a mean girl who loves Jack and there's not much more to her than that.  Blair supposedly falls in love with Dylan, but she doesn't show any growth after she loses him.  If De La Cruz had spent as much time developing her characters as she had in placing a designer label to every clothing item described in the book, the Blue Blood series would be better.  I gave the series the benefit of the doubt and read Book 2 (Masquerade) hoping that it would improve.  It didn't.  I am not continuing on with the series.  If you're looking for a good teen vampire series, try the House of Night series by P.C. Cast, the Vampire Diaries by L.J. Smith, or the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer.