Vampires: The Recent Undead
Format: ebook
ISBN:
2940012968166 (0012968161)
Publish date: June 8th 2011
Publisher: Prime Books
Pages no: 430
Edition language: English
Series: Sookie Stackhouse .1 (#9)
Short stories, or no real quality or interest, just ok. They read IMHO like cast off stories published to fit the current vamp craze.
This is a retrospective of vampire fiction published 2000-2010. I liked the introduction. It was a good description of the evolution of vampire fiction.I'll only rate the ones I particularly liked. The Coldest Girl in Coldtown * Holly Black - 3.5 starsThis Is Now * Michael Marshall Smith - 3 stars...
It was a good anthology, with quite a few unknown authors to me. Some stories were quite original and some quite scary. I especially liked an interesting take on vampires in the last one.Generally I would recommend it to find out if you like an author or not, but I can't be very objective as I'm not...