Reviews

The Darkening by Paul Antony Jones

amynbell's review

I usually like this author. I liked his time travel and his post-apocalyptic stories, but the pure horror in this book isn't something I'm enjoying. I'm not turning the pages and I'm dreading picking it up. Maybe it's because, so far, the vampiric maniacal killers of the book have turned out to be a baby, a toddler, and a girl's mom. I'm just going to call it quits at 50%. This book just isn't for me.

emmamcc's review

4.0

I love a good Vampire novel and this was certainly one to join my favourites! These vampires are seriously terrifying; strong and agile as per usual but also very clever and cunning - which is what makes them most frightening. Jones's vampire are pure predator and I loved every minute of it.

Jones deals well with quite a large group of characters and various POV characters throughout which a lot of authors struggle with. I really felt as though I liked them and I wanted them to get the heck away from these Vampires!

A great read for this time if year.

jiba's review

2.0

There were parts of this book that I really found enjoyable, but the set up was not one of the things I liked. The whole reason for the 'infection' I found to be weak and did not make sense at any level. It was both silly and offensive.

But... I did like the monsters and the characters and the ending. It was interesting, but I kept having to push back the ugh of the beginning which really affected how I felt about the story. So you set up this thing... then what? No resolution no more except one snide and ineffective remark three-quarters of the way through the book? [b:They Thirst|462658|They Thirst|Robert McCammon|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1214586224s/462658.jpg|16695823] did this scenario much better.

I admit that it was scary in some parts, that is why this is an ok read.