That's too bad. In the beginning of your review I got a little excited because I really like Norse mythology, but the book sounds like it would bug me. I just finished the first Twilight book and you were right. It's pretty terrible.
And yet, in spite of the badness of Twilight will you keep reading?
I was totally excited when I heard about RuneWarriors, because really, there just aren't enough good books about Vikings, right? But this was a bad book.
If I had done a better job of researching the authors, I probably would not have requested this book. The last script these guys sold to a major movie company was in 1994 (according to IMDB anyway) yet HarperCollins advertises these men as screenwriters. It is like calling myself a fashion designer when I am not producing any clothing. Have they done nothing else these past fourteen years? (That's actually really harsh and I shouldn't say that. One of the authors, Jennewein, has been teaching at UCLA. But why not mention that in the author biography, I wonder? Personally, that impresses me a lot more than knowing he wrote The Flintstones. Did you ever see that movie? It was AWFUL!)
I will keep reading it, just to see where she goes with the story and how it ends. The writing style is rather irksome - like a freshman in high school trying to make her paper better by sprinkling in random big words that no one ever uses. Also, random words will be italisized, yet their emphases make no sense! And the story line, geez. She doesn't make me want to believe in vampires, nothing draws me into the book. Have you ever read any books by L.J. Smith? She wrote The Vampire Diaries and Night World series that I read sometime around middle school and they were way better.
Sorry, didn't mean to turn this into a Twilight rant. But you're definately right, there aren't enough books about vikings. We should write books. With my mythology knowledge and your creativy, we could have the next literary sensation.
Did the Vampire Diaries involve two vampire brothers - possibly twins? - and some pretty human girl? I seem to remember reading a book along those lines in middle school, but I don't think I read the whole series. There was a scene somewhere about how one of the vampires' former lovers faked her own death by putting a pile of ashes in the middle of a garden or something?
Definitely haven't read Night World. I really liked Christopher Pike's The Last Vampire series in middle school, and the Anne Rice books. At one point I was reading quite a lot of vampire fiction, but I can't remember most of it now. I've got a review for another vampire book coming up - it's called The Opposite of Life.
Clearly, we need to have a book about Viking Vampires. This will be our next epic project.
Yeah, that was how it was! Winchester did go off on a lot of tangents and the whole time, I was like "China? Remember China? Let's talk more about that!" It really was much more of a biography, except I think that makes the title a bit misleading, because you expect to read about China!
sounded interesting reading what the premise of the story was. But in reading the rest of your review it sounds as though it would be a disappointing book.
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I was totally excited when I heard about RuneWarriors, because really, there just aren't enough good books about Vikings, right? But this was a bad book.
If I had done a better job of researching the authors, I probably would not have requested this book. The last script these guys sold to a major movie company was in 1994 (according to IMDB anyway) yet HarperCollins advertises these men as screenwriters. It is like calling myself a fashion designer when I am not producing any clothing.
Have they done nothing else these past fourteen years? (That's actually really harsh and I shouldn't say that. One of the authors, Jennewein, has been teaching at UCLA. But why not mention that in the author biography, I wonder? Personally, that impresses me a lot more than knowing he wrote The Flintstones. Did you ever see that movie? It was AWFUL!)
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Sorry, didn't mean to turn this into a Twilight rant. But you're definately right, there aren't enough books about vikings. We should write books. With my mythology knowledge and your creativy, we could have the next literary sensation.
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Definitely haven't read Night World. I really liked Christopher Pike's The Last Vampire series in middle school, and the Anne Rice books. At one point I was reading quite a lot of vampire fiction, but I can't remember most of it now. I've got a review for another vampire book coming up - it's called The Opposite of Life.
Clearly, we need to have a book about Viking Vampires. This will be our next epic project.
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