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3.64 AVERAGE
3.64 AVERAGE
Teenage vampires! I remember this being full of energy and emotion, if not originality.
dark
emotional
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book is... strange. I read when I was only barely younger than the author (okay, I am still only about three years younger than the author, but I was reading it the same age she wrote it and only just down the road from where it's set) and I loved it totally. I still prefer her vampire/vampire hunter books to a lot of other vampire novels, but they're definitely peculiar and the early ones are the work of a very, very young writer--but a talented one. I started writing because of this book (let's talk power of representation and validation of young female voices in literature, yo) and I am still inescapably fond. Risika tells her own story, and her relationship with the tiger is still one of my favorite things; and (spoiler!) the end of it breaks my heart even as an adult.
Diverse cast of characters:
No
It was good and interesting I just didn't think there was much point to the plot.
This book isn't exactly new, but it's my favorite book of all time, I've probably read it well over a hundred times, it never gets old. I first read this book in 8th grade, I was thirteen and nerdy. Amelia Atwater-Rhodes was thirteen when she wrote this book. And at the time I thought the writing was the best thing since Shakespeare, of course, I've matured since then so I realise that its not the best writing in the world in fact, it's probably only a couple of levels above Stephenie Meyer, but it's still my favorite book.
I don't have the book with me here in Mississippi, so I'm going to do my best to remember details. It's about vampires (this is the only vampire book I can read without rolling my eyes and gagging), the main character Risika/Rachel is turned into a vampire three hundred years before this book takes place. It's basicly about her past and her battle with herself and her blood brother (I'm not sure that's the right word, they were created by the same vampire). The ending kind of leaves you with a "uh, that's it?" Not like boring, but more like dissapointed 'cause it's over and you wanna know what happens next.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes is the one who inspired me to start writing.
I don't have the book with me here in Mississippi, so I'm going to do my best to remember details. It's about vampires (this is the only vampire book I can read without rolling my eyes and gagging), the main character Risika/Rachel is turned into a vampire three hundred years before this book takes place. It's basicly about her past and her battle with herself and her blood brother (I'm not sure that's the right word, they were created by the same vampire). The ending kind of leaves you with a "uh, that's it?" Not like boring, but more like dissapointed 'cause it's over and you wanna know what happens next.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes is the one who inspired me to start writing.
I first read Atwater-Rhodes' book Hawksong about 8 years ago. I was impressed by her young age at publication, the originality of the world and solid characters (for YA). and if the writing wasn't the strongest, the plot a bit weak, and side characters messy...what of it? Unfortunately this book has kept little of the first book's charm...BUT it is not terrible, it's super short and I need to read more books asap for the reading challenge...so onto the next one!
Read this one in a day (it's only 147 pages after all) and though it was interesting it wasn't all that memorable.
In the Forest of the Night contains only 147 pages and those pages are filled with big fonts and lots of white space.
Risika is a 300 year old vampire who was turned and torn from everything she loved when she was only seventeen. The story flips back and forth between present day and the time when Risika was a mortal on the eve of her change.
I thought the past story was more engaging than the present. In the present Risika discovers that her archenemy, a darkly handsome Eeevil vampire named Aubrey (who is evil, I'm guessing, simply because he can be), is near and begins causing her great distress. She fears him, he's more powerful than she, but yet stubbornly defies him, baits him and, by her actions, basically dares him to come after her. It didn't make any sense to me. Because of her actions a tragedy occurs. For a 300 year old vampire she doesn't appear all that bright and is completely ineffective for the majority of the book when it comes to dealing with Aubrey. The glimpses into Risika's past as she learns to live her life in darkness are much more interesting than the present bits with Aubrey.
The writer was only thirteen when she wrote the story (according to the blurb) and, to my jaded eyes, it shows. Her character lacks maturity and common sense and character motivation wasn't explored as nearly as fully as it should have been. There was also an odd sense of emotional detachment throughout the book and I never felt like I knew any of these characters very well. But it was the ending that truly did me in. Everything is wrapped up with a twist that isn't explained and didn't make a lick of sense and, again, the lead character acts oddly and without emotion. Though the atmosphere was done exceptionally well (all dark and broody-like) I was left in the dark too often when it came to character motivation and the plot was too thin to rate this book as anything more than average.
In the Forest of the Night contains only 147 pages and those pages are filled with big fonts and lots of white space.
Risika is a 300 year old vampire who was turned and torn from everything she loved when she was only seventeen. The story flips back and forth between present day and the time when Risika was a mortal on the eve of her change.
I thought the past story was more engaging than the present. In the present Risika discovers that her archenemy, a darkly handsome Eeevil vampire named Aubrey (who is evil, I'm guessing, simply because he can be), is near and begins causing her great distress. She fears him, he's more powerful than she, but yet stubbornly defies him, baits him and, by her actions, basically dares him to come after her. It didn't make any sense to me. Because of her actions a tragedy occurs. For a 300 year old vampire she doesn't appear all that bright and is completely ineffective for the majority of the book when it comes to dealing with Aubrey. The glimpses into Risika's past as she learns to live her life in darkness are much more interesting than the present bits with Aubrey.
The writer was only thirteen when she wrote the story (according to the blurb) and, to my jaded eyes, it shows. Her character lacks maturity and common sense and character motivation wasn't explored as nearly as fully as it should have been. There was also an odd sense of emotional detachment throughout the book and I never felt like I knew any of these characters very well. But it was the ending that truly did me in. Everything is wrapped up with a twist that isn't explained and didn't make a lick of sense and, again, the lead character acts oddly and without emotion. Though the atmosphere was done exceptionally well (all dark and broody-like) I was left in the dark too often when it came to character motivation and the plot was too thin to rate this book as anything more than average.
I finally finished this book. It was SO hard to get through. It felt like a much longer book, than it was.
I didn't enjoy it, but I can see why other would
I didn't enjoy it, but I can see why other would
I first read this book in sixth or seventh grade and didn't read it again until high school. Reading it many years later as an adult I can much more easily see errors in the writing, but there's still a part of me that just adores this book for the simple story that it is. And for introducing me to William Blake's "The Tiger" which remains to be one of my favorite poems.