This is a book I read when I was young and had never heard of George R.R. Martin, long before Game of Thrones. The funny thing is that although I could remember really liking it, I couldn't actually remember much about it except that it was about vampires on a Mississippi steamboat. So, a second r...
I really dug this one. The time setting of the 1850’s with vampires riding the Mississippi waterways on a riverboat was very interesting. At times, it even felt a little bit Larson-esque with the history of the steamers and trade that was going on in that time period. Mr. Martin did a great job with...
At times, this book Fevre Dream became a “fevre read” – by which I mean that I had trouble putting it back down once I had picked it up. This is essentially a vampire story, but there’s much more going on here than just vampires sucking the blood out of humans. Not that there isn’t some of that, too...
Captain Abner Marsh has been beset with misfortune after misfortune and is now struggling to keep his steamboat company together, that is until he meets the mysterious Joshua York. Mr York proposes to become a partner, putting much needed money into the company, allowing them to build the most beaut...
The vampires retain their proper deadly/vulnerable dichotomy! Hurrah!- But Martin does nothing new with them to keep it all from being extremely familiar territory. Steamboats! I know nothing about steamboats and am automatically interested in the historical setting!- If only there were much, much m...
A terrific book, although I expected no less from Mr. Martin. As usual, his characterizations are superb, his action is gory and vivid, his details are well researched, and his meals are tasty-sounding. If there is a major flaw with this novel it's that it's too short (kidding, kidding!). If you...
I liked the fact that this vampire story was set in the antebellum South, and mostly on a riverboat, no less. This added much to the telling. However, I felt the author needlessly, and rather explicitly, explained the parallels between vampirism and slavery. Whereas, no one with a modicum of intelli...
I was really looking forward to reading this book. So I started with good intentions. But as I read I started to get bored with all the steamboat history,and descriptions.
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