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An Ok Vamp Read....
Steer clear of this one...
Meh.
It was different alright..
This book is crazy

Night Prayers: A Vampire Novel
P. D. Cacek
Manufacturer: Design Image Group Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1891946013

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"Allison silently damned Seth's already damned soul to the lowest pit of Hell for sucking her dry and not leaving her with so much as a training manual. Producing fangs was no effort--she managed that while Buck was ripping her skirt off up against the back fender of his station wagon (they couldn't use the back seat because it was filled with kid's toys); and she'd even lulled him into near-orgasmic euphoria by running the tip of her icy tongue up and down the throbbing veins in his neck, just like Seth had done to her. But then she lunged. What would Christopher Lee do at a time like this? ...

"Buck screamed as he wadded up and shoved his dripping hand into her face. 'Look at that!' Allison did. And her mouth watered... 'How am I going to explain this to my wife? I could kill you!'

"'Too late,' Allison whispered."

One moment 37-year-old Allison is crying in her tequila in a country-western joint; the next, she's a vampire. After coming to her senses about how to survive as the newbie undead, she meets up with a Bible-thumping street preacher with a wild hair up his tail, vampire shapeshifters who do erotic animal acts in a sleazy pit of a bar, the "furvert" clientele who drool over them, an aging Jewish-mother type named Miriam ("is this a vampire we got here or a whole ferstinkena zoo?"), and various other bizarre inhabitants of southern California nightlife.

This is a funny romp of a vampire novel in the tradition of Nancy Collins's Sonja Blue stories and Christopher Moore's Bloodsucking Fiends. As horror critic Ed Bryant writes, Night Prayers "is a gorgeous confection, blood pudding whipped to a tasty scarlet froth.... The tone is smart-ass to the extreme." --Fiona Webster

Book Description

Stoker Award winning author P.D. Cacek turns vampire fiction inside

out in this wryly witty romp through the seamy underbelly of LA. Meet Allison Garret,

thirtysomething, unlucky in love and life, waking up after a three day binge: alone again.

Only now, she's a vampire without a clue about how to survive. It will take more than a

night full of prayers to help her and her new sidekick, a Bible-thumping street corner

preacher, when a catty coven of vengeful vamps target the both of them for destruction.

Customer Reviews:

An Ok Vamp Read...........2007-01-01

...sadly not a great read. I read it in one sitting. So it was a good page turner. I was glad I had the next book ordered. But sadly, I just don't want to start it yet. It is different. But, somewhat the same. Having a "preacher" in the story is interesting, and seeing where it goes in the next book should be telling. I am not sure yet if it is a keeper or not. I do reccomend reading it tho.

Steer clear of this one..........2006-04-29

I get the impression that the author has spent more time watching TV than reading books. This reads like a bad made for TV movie. The character development is a mess. She paints a picture of a certain type of person, and then that person says or does something totally out of context for the type of character being portrayed. The writing style is extremely annoying too. Constant attempts at creating drama with short paragraphs. E.G.:
"This author wrote a bad book."
"Again."
"And she knows it!"

Meh........2005-09-20

This had been on my book shelf for ages, and it had come highly recommended. It looks like a stylish vampire story, but... it kind of falls short.

The good:
The humor. There are some pretty funny scenes.
The horror. These vampires aren't cute fluffy bunny vamps.
The ideas. Cacek has a lot of clever ideas about vampire lore.

The bad:
The editing. It's horrible--lots of misspelled words, even misnumbered pages.
The tone. The feel of the story is really uneven. It's kind of like a cross between MaryJanice Davidson's Betsy stories and Ann Rice, and it's not sure which it wants to be.
The plot. There are a lot of threads that are left up in the air: a huge buildup to how to make a human servant, and then it's just dropped; lots of talk about the heroine not knowing anything about being a vampire, but she never learns, either.

The verdict:
It seems fairly amateurish, but also the kind of book that people will praise very highly because of that.

It was different alright.........2003-07-12

I love vampire books and couldn't wait to read this one after the reviews I read always touted it as "different". Well, it was, but not in a good way. The seedy side of L.A. was just plain disgusting, the sex was raunchy, not sexy, the attempts at humor failed, and the characters were nowhere.

This book is crazy.......2003-01-28

I read this book when I was first getting into the whole vampire thing...it is not for a vampire/romance newbie. It starts off bad(very disgusting) but it gets better. In fact I read the entire book one night at a sleepover with Girl Scouts...I was supposed to be sleeping, spending the next day hiking. It is a good book but with OOD imagry. The storyline is intense with a twisted sense of right. I loved it.

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