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Re: It was a very quick read, indeed. *spoilers* Rebekah Send a noteboard - 11/07/2010 01:22:24 PM
I'd say YA, but I never really read many YA novels and I don't know to what extent they are allowed to have sex in them.

Yeah. Haig writes for both adults and children, and says that his adult books will always have a 17-year-old feel to them because that's where part of his mind sits. :P


Hmm. I don't think it is fair to compare it to Dracula. Suburbia will never measure up to epic treks to Transylvania ;)

Certainly not. But at least the vampires are proper vampires, not icky sparkly things.


Yes, the characters were mostly good. I liked Will and I liked how he started out dangerous and following the cliché, and then it took a turn for the worse and he became just unsympathetic.

True.


But the way they were written didn't appeal to me. I don't agree that "show, don't tell" should be a fixed maxim, but there is rather too much telling here for my tastes.

Fair enough. I think Haig's style is to tell a story, not write a perfect book.


It does flow very well. I found the language a little too rudimentary, however. You told me it was originally a screen play, and I think it would work very well as that. While I found the book very easy to read and not annoying, it felt a little uneven to me. I mean, there were moments of brilliance, and then there were moments that were really too flat. And sometimes he took a good thing too far.

Agreed with all of that. I would definitely watch a film of it. I think it would work VERY well.


Yes, I liked the ending. I was a little worried they would all go back to abstaining, which would have been ridiculous. It was solved in the sensible way. A happy middle way between repression and indulgence? Aristotle would be proud.

So was I. That kind of an ending would probably fit with a YA book.
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