Showing posts with label Aubrey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aubrey. Show all posts

Friday, September 24, 2010

Demon in My View

By Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Book two of the Den  Of Shadows quartet

Seventeen year-old Jessica Allodola doesn't fit in at her high school, and she doesn't really care. She has a secret, however: she writes vampire fiction under the pen name Ash Night. What she doesn't know is that the characters in her books are real, and that some of them don't like what she's writing. When a new student shows up at her school, she immediately recognises him as the vampire Aubrey from her books. But he doesn't exist outside of her imagination, right? Jessica is about to find out just how real her vampires and their world are. This is one of my favorite stories by this author, and is, in my opinion at least, better written than the first book in this series. Interestingly, "Tiger, Tiger", Jessica's first book, has the same plot as In the Forests of the Night. I wish I could read Jessica's book Dark Flame, but I am pretty sure it only exists in this book.  Demon in My View is a great story, and the series, author, world, and characters are just amazing. I loved Jessica, Aubrey, Caryn, and even liked Fala. SUCH an awesome book!

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

In the Forests of the Night

By Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Book One of the Den of Shadows Quartet

When you are a vampire, if you show your fear, you die. To survive you need to be strong and fearless. Risika is a vampire, and a powerful one, but three hundred years ago she was human. Now, as she prepares to face down Aubrey, the one vampire she fears, her mind wanders back to that time. Two stories are told in this book: the story of Risika now, and the story of her when she was human. Quite honestly, I don't think this is the author's best work, but I did enjoy it, and your opinion may be different. I love  this author, and it drives me nuts that I know hardly anyone who reads her stuff. Her world makes for great stories.