Evan Bollinger

I absolutely loved this book! I loved the fantasy world that the book was set in and all of the characters. Mr. Bollinger writes prose like he is painting his story on canvas; the beauty unfolds with the telling of the tale. I felt as if I was living the adventures right along with the characters.
I am hoping that there be a sequel to this book, I would love to dive into another escapade with these wonderful characters.
For readers who love a well-written fantasy story, you must read this book!… (plus d'informations)

Four people from different backgrounds, they have nothing in common except one big problem. They have the power to siphon people’s life force but sometimes they kill their victims. Little by little they are loosing control over their powers and people are disappearing or dying.

Through a set of random encounters, the four siphoners: Donovan, Seth, Avanti and Frederick find each other. They discover that someone is controlling them and there is more to their powers then they realized. They are now on a quest to find the source of what makes them different and along the way they find a future they never expected

Siphoners by Evan Bollinger is a psychological horror novel with elements of Science Fiction. The Siphoners are never called vampires but to me they came across like psychic vampires. This book was like a mixed bag for me. It is a good book but I felt it could have been better. There were some action scenes where I wasn’t sure what was going on and I got tired of the sex and drug references.

Out of the 4 main characters I only liked two of them and in all cases I would liked to have gotten to know their personalities better before we got into their powers. Avanti was one of the ones I liked, she comes across as a strong woman who happens to have a problem she doesn’t understand. The other one I liked was Donovan. My favorite part of the book was seeing him get to college for the first time and hearing about how he has been sick his whole life. We then see him realize how he is a fish out of water in his new dorm and he doesn’t really know how to act. At this point he doesn’t realize he has powers and thinks he’s just weird.

I would have liked to see more scenes where Donovan is trying to fit into his surroundings but can’t. Instead the story goes straight for his powers being out of control. This isn’t a bad book though. I love the concept of siphoning life force but I thought the story could have been told a little better. The book has its moments though and I would be interested in further installments of the series and I would read more writings of Evan Bollinger.… (plus d'informations)

There is a lot in this novella. Good, simple characters, a subtle story with a neat twist all told from a young person's eye. I say eye because the mind of the central character is far from childish as indeed is the theme. I enjoyed teh fantasy elements as much as I enjoyed its urban setting. The whole book had a very smart surreal feeling to it, a bit like listening to thoughts rather than just
reading words. I like this kind of writing especially when it is well done: and this is.

A simple concept taken no further than it needed to be. Many people would have dragged this out into a full length novel and lost its identity and purpose along the way. A brief but very enjoyable read.

I shall be looking for more from Mr Bollinger.… (plus d'informations)

There is a lot in this novella. Good, simple characters, a subtle story with a neat twist all told from a young person's eye. I say eye because the mind of the central character is far from childish as indeed is the theme. I enjoyed teh fantasy elements as much as I enjoyed its urban setting. The whole book had a very smart surreal feeling to it, a bit like listening to thoughts rather than just
reading words. I like this kind of writing especially when it is well done: and this is.

A simple concept taken no further than it needed to be. Many people would have dragged this out into a full length novel and lost its identity and purpose along the way. A brief but very enjoyable read.

I shall be looking for more from Mr Bollinger.… (plus d'informations)