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Chargement... Nuit intérieure (1993)par Nancy Baker
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Nancy Baker's debut novel, first published back in 1994, has been re-issued by ChiZine, and good for them! Even if you don't generally read vampire novels -- which this is -- may I suggest you give it a try? If you like thrillers, if you like crime novels, if you like suspense with a bit of dark erotica, this might just be the book for you. The back of the book says: "Dependable grad student Ardeth Alexander finds herself trapped in a nightmare as the unwilling blood source for a captive vampire. When she discovers that her fellow prisoner is not the worst monster she faces, she realizes the only way to survive is to make an irrevocable choice." So, we're faced with a philosophical, moral choice at the start of the novel. Lovely. It might be any well-written dark thriller without this depth and complexity, which is fine so far as it goes, but Baker goes the extra mile. Although I found myself hurriedly turning pages and reading later into the evening that I'd planned (good things), on top of that pleasure, the story was consistently enhanced by this sort of intelligent reminder. What is one to do with eternity? What is a 'monster'? How does perspective alter morality? Very well done. I will go on to read the sequel -- BLOOD AND CHRYSANTHEMUMS-- at some point, and look forward to her new book, COLD HILLSIDE, to be published by Chizine in 2014. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Vampire horror from the author of A Terrible Beauty. "Riveting . . . her compromised heroine . . . is a strikingly drawn and hauntingly memorable figure." --USA Today Dependable grad student Ardeth Alexander finds herself trapped in a nightmare as the unwilling blood source for a captive vampire named Dimitri Rozokov. "Baker's engrossing debut alternates the present-day story with the 1898 diary of obsessed businessman Ambrose Dale, who drove Rozokov into hiding and a 100-year sleep . . . Learning his story, Ardeth gradually loses her horror of Rozokov and begins to see their human jailers as the real monsters. Their only hope of salvation is to trace the links to Rozokov's Victorian nemesis and discover the person behind his 20th-century captivity . . . In prose studded with passages of dark luster, Baker offers a truly original scenario" (Publishers Weekly). "It's almost impossible not to finish The Night Inside in one frenzied, chocolate donut munching sitting. It's also impossible not [to] root for its feisty, feminist vampiress heroine." --Charles Busch, author of Vampire Lesbians of Sodom "Terrific . . . The unrelenting tension between the monstrous and the human propels this unique tale of gripping suspense." --Katherine Ramsland, author of The Vampire Companion "The metamorphosis is achieved in a highly charged ritual as sensuous as any written: this is consummation as bloodbath, as mutual blood-letting and blood-sucking . . . breathless, lingering, erotic . . ." --The Globe and Mail (Toronto) "Baker has obviously thought about what surrendering to the dark side means that lifts this book up above the vast . . . morass of romantic vampire fiction." --Quill & Quire Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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What is the ultrasound they use on the vampires? All I can picture is the device they rub on a pregnant woman. I guess it must be some portable sound wave???
"Ardeth & Rozokov" I'm not fond of the names.
The vampires are monsters but the story shows us there are worse monsters out there.
My favorite part of the story was how Ardeth
I liked it well enough to order the 2nd in the series but don't think I'd ever read this again. I think target audience would be young adult or college age. ( )