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John Marks, Fangland
Penguin Press (2007) ISBN: 978-1-59420-117-2
Score: 0
A contemporary novel, about an associate producer for a popular TV newsshow who goes to Romania to interview a major crime lord, only to find out he's a vampire. The heroine is remarkably passive and naive for someone responsible for convincing crime lords to do live interviews; the book starts with her saying how happy she is to be engaged to someone who has no respect for her opinions. In the third of the book that I read, she only twice does anything useful: the first was proactive enough to be slightly out of character for her, and the second was explicitly out of character (she spends half a page telling us so) and involves her (ROT-13:) sevtugravat gur inzcver njnl jvgu ure frk nccrny (I wish I was making that up). Also, the book's structure is very odd: the first several chapters are told in the first person, but there's no clue who the audience is (the heroine's fiance, boss and coworkers are all referred to in the third person), and there's also emails, chat sessions, and a therapy journal (several chapters entirely in italics).
Penguin Press (2007) ISBN: 978-1-59420-117-2
Score: 0
A contemporary novel, about an associate producer for a popular TV newsshow who goes to Romania to interview a major crime lord, only to find out he's a vampire. The heroine is remarkably passive and naive for someone responsible for convincing crime lords to do live interviews; the book starts with her saying how happy she is to be engaged to someone who has no respect for her opinions. In the third of the book that I read, she only twice does anything useful: the first was proactive enough to be slightly out of character for her, and the second was explicitly out of character (she spends half a page telling us so) and involves her (ROT-13:) sevtugravat gur inzcver njnl jvgu ure frk nccrny (I wish I was making that up). Also, the book's structure is very odd: the first several chapters are told in the first person, but there's no clue who the audience is (the heroine's fiance, boss and coworkers are all referred to in the third person), and there's also emails, chat sessions, and a therapy journal (several chapters entirely in italics).
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