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3.44 AVERAGE
3.44 AVERAGE
Loved the book! A fitting beginning of the 30 Days of Night saga and I immediately got hooked.
Entertaining and genuinely creepy. The full audio cast and performance added to the macabre and frightening atmosphere. I deducted a star for the cheesy, melodramatic ending.
My God, the artwork in this book is f**king phenomenal.
Okay, so now I've read it & wished that it was much longer. I don't think I got enough out of the characters to really care about them, but who cares in the end, the artwork was so awesome. Reminds me a lot of those creepy Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark illustrations that used to scare the beejeesus out of me as a child.
Okay, so now I've read it & wished that it was much longer. I don't think I got enough out of the characters to really care about them, but who cares in the end, the artwork was so awesome. Reminds me a lot of those creepy Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark illustrations that used to scare the beejeesus out of me as a child.
An excellent graphic novel—quickly paced and gloriously violent. The artwork is nightmarish and yet oddly beautiful in its bleakness. It’s a quick, feverish, and sparse story with the same kind of restrained imagery. My only wish is that more aspects of the novel had been expanded. There is more plot here that could’ve been explored, but Niles chooses to put all of his focus into the bloody bits. As such, there’s not much there there. Regardless, it’s a fun, engaging, terrifying and action packed story that will surely resonate with fans of horror.
A great idea combining opportunistic vampires with the fear of isolation and prolonged darkness in Alaska and Templesmith's art is perfect for capturing the bleakness of the winter and the savagery of the vampires. It is a really good concept and has quite a powerful ending but it does feel a little rushed and like more could have been made of it. Still, an enjoyable little read.
I love the artwork, really dark and terrifying. The story is quite ok, too. But it's like Niles was in a hurry to finish it. All this rush just doesn't work for me, as if he was careless about the final outcome.
A short listen to set the mood for halloween. Not a great story but I never really got the point of graphic novels. This was an impulse but as audible IS were offering it for 99c.
Days of Night is an interesting graphic novel. It is about vampires and for me thats something good because I do like my vampires. These vampires are the usual vampires, in other words they don't like humans, to them a human is food and that is all.
As far as the pictures go, I thought they were very different to the usual images you get in graphic novels. They're drawn in a really different way. But they're quite good. Not unlike the cover image. I do have one warning word and that is that seeing as how this is a graphic novel and it's about vampires, some of the pictures are pretty graphic. So if you don't like pictures like that 30 Days of Night probably isn't your kind of book.
To be honest I found 30 Days of Night lacking in substance, there wasn't much to it at all. I knew what was going on because I'd seen the movie before but if you haven't seen the movie before you read this, you might get a bit confused. The whole story flies past and it doesn't take long to finish.
If you like graphic novels and you like vampires then you may like 30 Days of Night. This is only the first book in the series so it's not a stand alone. I know I'll be picking up the next one in the series.
As far as the pictures go, I thought they were very different to the usual images you get in graphic novels. They're drawn in a really different way. But they're quite good. Not unlike the cover image. I do have one warning word and that is that seeing as how this is a graphic novel and it's about vampires, some of the pictures are pretty graphic. So if you don't like pictures like that 30 Days of Night probably isn't your kind of book.
To be honest I found 30 Days of Night lacking in substance, there wasn't much to it at all. I knew what was going on because I'd seen the movie before but if you haven't seen the movie before you read this, you might get a bit confused. The whole story flies past and it doesn't take long to finish.
If you like graphic novels and you like vampires then you may like 30 Days of Night. This is only the first book in the series so it's not a stand alone. I know I'll be picking up the next one in the series.
Atmospheric, and the art is very nice...the way the vampires and their violence are depicted as splatters of red and black is a great "expressionist" way of telling this story. I have to say that I like the plot of the movie better, it is more fleshed out, there are more characters and the vampires are uniquely menacing because they DON'T expain their every move, but mostly communicate in a language the regular folk can't understand.
I think it would have been better if it stayed just a graphic novel.
I never have read the comic/graphic novel version of this. I listened to the audiobook and I thought it couldn't make a difference, but I think in the end it does. It seems like this story relies on visual imagery that can't really be placed in audio.
The story itself is very short, easy to listen to and at the time was a bit ahead of other things like this in the genre. However now decades later it gets lost to stories that are better and more refined. This isn't on the author though, he did great.
The story itself is a simple thirty days in Barrow Alaska, vampires and a few survivors trying to make it out. I am curious with the sequels how they pan out, but this story itself is a good, self-contained vampire urban fantasy story that would fit in with White Wolf's gaming system.
Like I said, not a bad story, but you probably get further and enjoy it more if you read the comic/graphic novel.
I never have read the comic/graphic novel version of this. I listened to the audiobook and I thought it couldn't make a difference, but I think in the end it does. It seems like this story relies on visual imagery that can't really be placed in audio.
The story itself is very short, easy to listen to and at the time was a bit ahead of other things like this in the genre. However now decades later it gets lost to stories that are better and more refined. This isn't on the author though, he did great.
The story itself is a simple thirty days in Barrow Alaska, vampires and a few survivors trying to make it out. I am curious with the sequels how they pan out, but this story itself is a good, self-contained vampire urban fantasy story that would fit in with White Wolf's gaming system.
Like I said, not a bad story, but you probably get further and enjoy it more if you read the comic/graphic novel.