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30 Days of Night: Immortal Remains (v. 2)

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My compliments to the authors; this is a well written book. Much better than its predecessor in the series "Rumors of the Undead (30 Days of Night)". Tight story, good character development, and contextually plausible. Thus, the reader finds himself/herself in the story. This duo is maturing as an author team and I'm looking forward to the next one. Follow these instructions to get the most out of this offering: find a quiet and dark place (wine is optional), get in a dark state of mind, and read. This book will induce some chills if you are prepared to read it. Cheers.

If you are debating reading this book, stop debating it and just do it. I'm sure you can pick it up used for just a couple bucks.

My first introduction to anything 30 Days of Night was the book that preceded this one, Rumors of the Undead. While that book was quite good (good enough to make me hungry for more 30 Days of Night) this book really goes much further. The character development is great and relateable, the story is intense and has very little down-time. The authors blend the perfect amount of horror, suspense, drama and even comedy. Even better the book ties in old characters from the Original 30 Days of Night Graphic Novel and The Rumors of the Undead.

I'm thirsty, gotta go!

The best thing about the original '30 Days of Night' book (and to a lesser extent, film) was the vampires as insatiable, violent, force-of-nature---nearly a-human despite parts of their appearance. By the time we get to this book, we have much more human vampires, physically and mentally, with good ones, bad ones, funny ones, married ones, and one who sure seems to be bucking for 'vampire with a soul'.

O.K., it could be argued that the vampires attacking Barrow, AK, were a self-selected and particularly vicious bunch...but this seems a double-talk explanation retconned into existence to allow more books to be written more easily, and in any event the initial power of the world of the initial premise is substantially weakened.

In addition, there are a couple of examples of extremely convenient characters who seem to exist only as long as they're needed, and then are disposed-of. In fact, the authors (perhaps Mr Mariotte, a more seasoned veteran less in love with the property and here to make an honest dollar) hang a lampshade on this when one character is likened in the text to a machine that is thrown away the moment its usefulness is at an end. Not every character is important, or can be fully fleshed-out in an airport novel, but even so it's offensive to human dignity to basically treat any of them as just part of the plot machinery.

All in all, I'm sorry I touched the odious Kindle DRM in order to read this book; the quality is not worth the uncleanliness conveyed thereby. I wish I could get my money, and more the two hours I spent reading this, back, or at least be able to give it 0 stars. The numerous spelling errors didn't help, probably not the authors' fault, though a case or two of characters in a conversation's being confused are so.