Comments on Book It!: Vampire Kisses

It always blows me away when I come across the few...

2009-10-29T00:16:39.542-04:00

It always blows me away when I come across the few people who actually think Vampire Kisses is a good book. The author is a stand up comedian and should just stick with that. You're right about one thing though, this book does not compare to Twilight. It is not in the same league, world, or universe as Twilight. These two series should not even be mentioned in the same sentence because it's an insult to Stephanie Meyers.
The Vampire Kisses series had little or no chemistry between Raven and Alxander. It was difficult to enter Raven's world because she is so strange and uninteresting. These books were too fast moving, yet I felt as if they dragged on forever. Vampire Kisses was by far the most painful thing I have ever read.

If you are looking for a good Vampire Series I suggest Vampire Academy or The House of Night. They are both very engaging series.

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I began reading Vampire Kisses, because quite fran...

2009-09-22T11:15:12.928-04:00

I began reading Vampire Kisses, because quite frankly..I've read the Twilight series 4 times, and really wanted to find something like it to fill the time until New Moon comes out. Where "kisses" got my attention, it is definately not on the same level as Twilight. I realize that both series are "teen" books, but Vampire Kisses was much more obviously written toward the younger reader. I'll finish the 3rd book, because it came in the combined book I purchased, but it's not really filling the void of my need for the good vampire story. I will probably end up rereading the Twi series again and rereading the unfinished copy of Midnight Sun from Stephenie Meyer's webpage.

Melissa, I do agree with you that Vampire Kisses i...

2009-01-05T22:00:00.000-05:00

Melissa, I do agree with you that Vampire Kisses is not on the level of Twilight, but that is probably due to the fact that I am an obsessed Twilight freak. But Vampire Kisses is amazing, and I love the fact that Schreiber did not describe the characters much. Reading the first book I had perfect pictures of how I wanted to imagine the characters, and I was mad they put a picture of Raven on the second because it is not how I pictured her at all. BUt leaving Alexander's appearance in the dark made me love him even more because i imagined him looking gorgeous and perfect for me.

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2008-11-30T19:26:00.000-05:00

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I personal like the fact that the writer did not p...

2008-11-10T16:27:00.000-05:00

I personal like the fact that the writer did not put too much of a description to Alexander. For me it made it more enjoyable to read. Raven said that he was good looking to her, but by leaving everything about him unanswered left your own imageination to think what one would personaly like to see in a "dreamy vampire goth"

The narrator, Raven, achieves her voice through th...

2008-01-08T13:43:00.000-05:00

The narrator, Raven, achieves her voice through the story itself, as it is first person. Some of it is a little wordy in the beginning, when she's trying to establish herself as a Gothic girl, but that's the part that bothers me anyway.

I'm going to look up how the author describes Alexander and block-quote it tonight. I had to read it twice, because I wasn't sure if the author really meant to put so little description in. I liked Kissing Coffins a bit better, because the narrator ended up seeing Alexander after an absence of a week or so, and when they were reunited, she started describing his features. But that's way into the second book. Too long a wait, I think. Also, like all of the sudden you find out in the middle of this book that Alexander wears stud earrings which is just so weird to hear. I really, really don't like how the characters are physically described. In SOME fairness to the author, I should point out that she does pay a lot of attention to what Alexander wears, but anyone can technically wear anything--it's not very helpful in telling me about the angles of their face or definite shapes. I don't know. Just my opinion.

I only chose to write about Raven in such a way because I'm not telling the story myself, merely summarizing for the benefit of others.

-Melissa

P.S. Jumping the gun, here's the quote from the second book, when they are reunited. It was the first time I was actually able to put some sort of picture together of Alexander:

"Instead, standing before me as my Gothic Guy, like a knight of the night. His dark, shoulder-length hair was hanging in his face. His white, moonlit skin was covered by a black T-shirt and jeans. The plastic spider ring I'd given him was resting on his finger. His eyes were deep, lonely, adoringly intelligent, just as they were the first time I'd see them."

Still doesn't describe his facial features very well, but still, something like THIS didn't come until the second book. Like I said, I'll edit the entry with the block quote of her first description of Alexander in book one later.

How does the author describe Alexander? Like, is i...

2008-01-08T12:19:00.000-05:00

How does the author describe Alexander? Like, is it literally only in her words, beautiful, dark hair/eyes, etc? That seems to be a rough way of describing, almost as if the author wasn't sure herself of his appearance.

Also, how does the characterization happen? Through their actions, or their thoughts/words? Or even, yuck, through narrator description? You say they're very thouroughly characterized, which, as you said, is good and bad, but it's definitely bad if it's described to the reader in a cop-out manner, i.e: "Raven is a goth girl in Dullsville, who is both witty and fierce". You know?

Anyway, again, I enjoyed this post. Keep them coming, even if they are about trashy teen vamp novels. Good reading!