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News from the Edge: Vampires of Vermont

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Savvy (Savannah) Mckinnon is a reporter for the tabloid "Global Query". As such, she often finds herself pursuing bizarre events barely qualifying as news. In this installment of the NEWS FROM THE EDGE series, Savvy is on the trail of a self-proclaimed vampire. When she travels to meet Count Yorga, she expects a quickie interview and easy story; what she finds is a murder mystery and conspiracy with herself smack dab in the middle of the action.
This is a light, quick read and at just under 200 pages, I was able to finish it in one sitting. I truly enjoyed the wry humor laced throughout the story, but I never felt as if the characters are fully fleshed out. This might be a good one to finish up by the pool or on the beach. But if you're looking for hard hitting vampire fiction, skip this one.

If you have been watching The Chronicle on the Sci Fi Channel then you know that these are the books that the series is based on. What you may not know is that the books are different than the series! The books have a girl reporter named Savvy and the paper she works at is not the World Chronicle. In this book Savvy investigates a story about a vampire. The story is exciting with some violence and a lot of strange things happening. but dont expect to see Tucker or the other people from the Chronicle! I can see how they got the idea for the tv show from these books but they changed a lot of things. The book is funny and I will read more of them.

This was an interesting read. Savvy McKinnon is a reporter for a gossip paper much like The Globe. She has been doing an artice on Count Yorga, a self-porclaimed vamipre. Savvy get's a call from the Count, and he's not pleased. The next thing that Savvy know's is that she's on her way to do an "interview with a vampire". Then the Count drops dead, and bites her in the process, Savvy's life will change. She is getting pale, and smack dab in the middle mystery. Savvy had to find out who killed the Count, why he was killed, and how can she stay alive. Alls in a days work for a reporter.

The char were weak and not really developed. I felt that most of the char's could have been in a Film Noir movie, complete with the cheesy dialouge and the predictible (in the Film Noir world) situations that the chars found themself in.

This is a shrt book of just under 200 pages and is a quick read. If you're looking for a detailed vampire book, this isn't it. Granted, this isn't a bad read, just don't expect to much.

Condider this as a book that starts off as a watered down vampire book with an X-Files ending.

You might want to give this book a chance. There was a lot of toung and cheekness to it.

I was expecting more of a supernatural ala X-Files style. Instead I kept thinking "This is what would happen if Lou Grant had sent Mary Tyler Moore to get a story." Definitely light reading.

Nothing I can find on Amazon about this writer, so apparently he/she is using an alias. Before the series from which this story comes, there was another called "Magic: The Gathering" using different writers for the separate episodes. Mark Sumner did THE PRODIGAL SORCERER. Then, he came up with the series, "News From the Edge" about a tabloid which is 99% trash.

In this one, the female reporter who 'works' for something called 'Global Query,' and sets out to interview a real-live vampire. Williams Crossing here is based on Chester, Vermont, in many ways. In 2000, NBC used these three books, others are INSANITY, ILLINOIS and THE MONSTER OF MINNESOTA, as a fill-in midseason replacement; didn't see it so don't know how they stretched these three short novels into a t.v. series.

There was something similar on the SciFi cable channel in 2001 called 'The Chronicle.' The female reporter has much to learn about interviews. First, with a vampire, you don't stand close enough for him to bite you anywhere. When's the body disappears completely, she has to wonder had it been a ghost, apparition, or merely a figment of her imagination. She wants to find some truth out there, but no, this has nothing in common with the "Cat Who" books, nor George Martin's book about vampires. Now, that is a scary book. These make-believe monsters are like something out of a low-budget movie (and that's pure nonsense).

If you want a lite, fun story with cool characters and great opening lines, you won't fail with one (or, may I suggest, all) of the News From the Edge books. This time, instead of just investigating the story, Savvy ends up on the other side as part of the story - she's a vampire. Oops! There are a lot of things in this book for fans of the old vampire and other horror flicks, plus for fans of newer stuff like The X-Files.

NBC has ordered a midseason replacement series called News From the Edge which is loosely based on this series. I can only hope they keep the lighthearted humor that makes these books so much fun.