Wolfgang Hohlbein - We are the night
In the end, everything was het and nothing hurt.
I guess. This was my first Hohlbein book and while it wasn't bad, it also really wasn't all that good. I liked some of the characters, first and foremost Charlotte and Tom, but others were just painfully obnoxious. Especially Lena, the girl through whose eyes we're watching the story unfold. Hohlbein's writing style isn't up par with the stuff I usually read. His word choice is awkward at times (there was one fight scene in particular where the girls kept "steppen" [tap-dancing]; I guess he was thinking of "taking a step back/forward") and very repetitive. Yes, the hunger she experiences is literally painful, it burns and almost makes her faint. After 500 pages, I think I got that vampires should eat regularly, thank you very much.
What also bothered me was the way he described a vampire's strength. Sometimes you had three sentences describing how incredibly powerful Lena felt, or that she felt that awful power in someone else ... only to have that super powerful person flying across the room and through the wall in the very next paragraph. And on the next page, that character stops a car with her bare hands. Excuse me, princess? That's just inconsistent and annoying.
Let's not even get started on the morals of our dear main character. The whole book is her pitying herself and hating Louise for turning her into this bloodthirsty monster. And then, at the very end, she off-handedly turns her boyfriend into one, too, just because she doesn't want him to die. Which is extremely cruel considering he was near catatonic after realizing what's going on with Lena, Louise, and the Russians.
What I liked about the book is limited to the characters mentioned above, and the bisexual vampires. The reviews suggest that the book is better than the movie, so I'm not gonna bother with the DVD.
P.S.: I hope Katharina Louise was only calling him "Rasputin" in a teasing manner. Anything else would have been just plain awkward.
P.P.S.: Who the fuck was that woman supposed to be at the very end? God...dess? 8|