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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
modern vampire story delivers the goods,
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This review is from: Half Dead (Paperback)
Let me preface this review by saying I am NOT a fan of Vampire stories... fortunately, this is not a vampire story. Okay, so most of the characters are vampires, but it is really a story of political-intreague, and of the prejudices involved in fighting terrorism. It also raises one of the best questions any story can raise, "Who really is the bad guy, anyway?" Half Dead is full of witty dialogue and stand-out, chracterizing moments. The Coopers are not satisfied with the tired old vampire gimics. You think a government agency designed to stamp out the undead will stick to something as close-range as holy water when a full-on Church Hymn audio assault pumped through speakers will do the trick? Leave it to the Coopers to bring that dark, poetic mood back into a genre that has lost touch with its source. From classy, brooding monologues to full-on exploding heads, Half Dead does not disappoint!
3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good start, room to grow,
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This review is from: Half Dead (Paperback)
Hunted close to extinction and no longer content to swell their ranks by the slow process of random biting, London's vampires have developed a gaseous "virus" that can be released to infect mortals and transform them into a half-dead half-breed who, while more mindless than your average vamps, will spread the infection further through their attacks. Romany Petrovna is a young ballerina who's on the wrong subway at the wrong time. Strangely, however, her transformation is different from the rest, and she retains her mental acuity and a great deal of her normal personality -- albeit a bit more aggressive than usual. She's captured and recruited by the PASA (Bureau of Paranormal and Supernatural Affairs) as both a guinea pig in their studies and a weapon in their attacks. Along for the ride are a one-armed vamp survivor, a small troop of bat-winged soldiers and a general who had his entire body amputated and remains as the, um, head of operations.
There's a lot of potential here for grand storytelling in a modern horror style. Unfortunately, "Half Dead" feels rushed, as if the writers had a 250-page story and were told to squeeze it into a 128-page book. We meet Romany and, boom, she's been infected. Boom, she's captured and has adapted to her new situation. Boom, she's trained and ready to go into lethal combat. Boom. Boom. Boom. Unfortunately, nowhere along the way does she pause long enough for us to get any sense of who she is, so the character never leaves the page to become three-dimensional. by Tom Knapp, Rambles.(n e t) editor
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