Graham Downs reviewed Vampire Hunt by Alan Hardy
Review of 'Vampire Hunt' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
This book promises to be "A vampire tale like no other." Well, I don't know about that, but it certainly is different to the most of the fare we're subjected to these days.
I liked it.
In many ways, although I did say it was unique, it reminds me of the quintessential vampire book, [b:Dracula|17245|Dracula|Bram Stoker|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1387151694s/17245.jpg|3165724]. Oh, it's not written in letters or anything like that. Just the pacing, the plot, the feel of it. It's very gothic.
I said I liked it, and it's true. I really wanted to love it, though. But I couldn't.
I couldn't get past the editing. When something makes me stop and go "WTF?" every few pages, it really affects my enjoyment. To its credit, the grammar and spelling were perfect, but the sentence construction got really confusing at times. There are some strange turns-of-phrase, redundancies, and an intense overuse of ellipses and the …
This book promises to be "A vampire tale like no other." Well, I don't know about that, but it certainly is different to the most of the fare we're subjected to these days.
I liked it.
In many ways, although I did say it was unique, it reminds me of the quintessential vampire book, [b:Dracula|17245|Dracula|Bram Stoker|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1387151694s/17245.jpg|3165724]. Oh, it's not written in letters or anything like that. Just the pacing, the plot, the feel of it. It's very gothic.
I said I liked it, and it's true. I really wanted to love it, though. But I couldn't.
I couldn't get past the editing. When something makes me stop and go "WTF?" every few pages, it really affects my enjoyment. To its credit, the grammar and spelling were perfect, but the sentence construction got really confusing at times. There are some strange turns-of-phrase, redundancies, and an intense overuse of ellipses and the phrase "let alone" to mean "not to mention"... and it's used incorrectly on more than one occasion.
In the beginning, there's also some confusion as to the name of the antagonist. First, he's "Count Drake" (which I thought was a funny allusion to Dracula), then he becomes "Count Drace", then back to "Count Drake", before finally settling on "Count Drace" for the rest of the book.
I could go on, but you get the idea, and you probably think I'm being petty at this point. Well, maybe I am, but I tend to be really sensitive to things like that, and anything that makes me stop and remember that I'm actually reading a book affects my enjoyment of a story.
If it weren't for those things, though, this book might easily have been five stars for me. So if you don't mind stuff like this, and you love gothic vampire stories, go read this book!