The Awakening [Hardcover]

Shannon Drake (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Kensington Publishing (2003)
• ASIN: B002OFYOS8
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)

More About the Author

New York Times and USA Today best selling author, Heather Graham was born somewhere in Europe and kidnapped by gypsies when she was a small child. She went on to join the Romanian circus as a trapeze artist and lion tamer. When the circus came to South Florida, she stayed, discovering that she preferred to be a shark and gator trainer.

Not really.

Heather is the child of Scottish and Irish immigrants who met and married in Chicago, and moved to South Florida, where she has spent her life. (She has, at least, been to the Russian circus in Moscow, where she wished she was one of the incredibly talented and coordinated trapeze artists.) She majored in theater arts at the University of South Florida. After a stint of several years in dinner theater, back-up vocals, and bartending, she stayed home after the birth of her third child and began to write. Her first book was with Dell, and since then, she has written over one hundred and fifty novels and novellas including category, suspense, historical romance, vampire fiction, time travel, occult, horror, and Christmas family fare.

She is pleased to have been published in approximately twenty-five languages, and has had over seventy-five million books in print. She has been honored with awards from Walden Books, B. Dalton, Georgia Romance Writers, Affaire de Coeur, Romantic Times, the Lifetime Achievement Award from RWA and more. Heather has also become the proud recipient of the Silver Bullet from Thriller Writers. Heather has had books selected for the Doubleday Book Club and the Literary Guild, and has been quoted, interviewed, or featured in such publications as The Nation, Redbook, Mystery Book Club, People and USA Today and appeared on many newscasts including Today, Entertainment Tonight and local television.

Heather loves travel and anything that has to do with the water, and is a certified scuba diver. She also loves ballroom dancing. Each year she hosts the Vampire Ball and Dinner theater at the RT convention raising money for the Pediatric Aids Society and in 2006 she hosted the first Writers for New Orleans Workshop to benefit the stricken Gulf region. She is also the founder of "The Slush Pile Players", presenting something that's almost like entertainment for various conferences and benefits. Married since high school graduation and the mother of five, her greatest love in life remains her family, but she also believes her career has been an incredible gift, and she is grateful every day to be doing something that she loves so very much for a living.

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best and most addicting stories, October 23, 2003

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"lindah93" (Port St Lucie, FL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Awakening (Mass Market Paperback)

This book was well researched and written. It held the readers attention and has to be one of the best I have read...this makes 2 for 2 from the author and now I am purchasing all of her other books (under Shannon Drake and Heather Graham). When I seen the negative reviews I was shocked....this book should be made into a movie, it was original and kept you guessing...I am sure however that reading it during a visit to Salem (in October!) only made it more enjoyable for me because the book gave you quite a history of Salem and it's legends. I encourage anyone looking for a good, organized storyline to purchase this book!!!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not Good, July 5, 2006

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Mary Ellen Polosky - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Awakening (Mass Market Paperback)

I'm new to the Shannon Drake Vampire series. The first 4 books - 1. Beneath a Blood Red Moon, 2. When Darkness Falls, 3. Deep Midnight and 4. Realm of Shadows are excellent books! They are well written and interesting, expecially when the author recesses into the past explain how certain main characters became who and "what" they are. Having said that; I must say that The Awakening is awful! Yes, I said AWFUL! I haven't yet finished the book, at this point I am almost 3/4 of the way through it and I keep skipping pages to get through it faster! I have found the two main characters "Finn and Megan" to be redundant and just plain annoying! I want to say "GET OVER IT ALREADY"! I will read the next book - which is the last in the series (Dead By Dusk) only because I have already purchased the book, but if the series continues on this downward spiral, I will not purchase any more.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The Awakening, January 15, 2004

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anna m. cook (Abingdon, Virginia United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Awakening (Mass Market Paperback)

Shannon Drake's first 3 Vampire books were awesome, but this book is so boring it takes a lot of effort to keep reading it. The Awakening isn't a very good title for this particular book, it should be called The Sleeping. That's just what you want to do while reading it. She brings back her characters from her first 4 books which is a good thing. The book does tend to get OK toward the end, but mostly your just glad that you finally finished it and can now put it away someplace where you won't have to look at it and be reminded of the time you wasted reading it.