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Bloodlust And Initiation (2000)

by Alex Duval(Favorite Author)

3.8 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1416954589 (ISBN13: 9781416954583)

languge

English

genre

Romance

review 1: Vampire Beach (Bloodlust and Initiation) by Alex Duval is a paranormal love story. Jason and his family move to an exclusive neighborhood in Malibu. He likes this one girl, Sienna, who is dating Brad. There is some high school drama, some saving of people, and some dead people. The normal vampire love story book.I feel the book was kind of copy and paste. There didn’t seem much that was original. The main character moves. The main character falls in love. The person that the main character falls in love with doesn’t return it in some way. There’s some hero action. Then they fall in love. How many books can this describe? I can tell you, most of the ones I read as a preteen.For example there is the whole love at first site. Jason was in the lunch line when he spotted ... moreSienna and “He suddenly felt alive in a way he never had before. And life was full of possibility” (7). Stereotypical love at first sight love style. Kind of old. Kind of unoriginal. It’s the same old same old as with every teenage love story.The unattainable aspect is that she has a super popular boyfriend that she loves and would never leave. He was devastated. He likes a girl, whose boyfriend he later becomes friends with. Jason even expresses at one point that, “he felt guilty just watching Brad in the pool, knowing how he felt about the dude’s girlfriend” (156). Another cliche. Nothing original. It reminds me of soap operas and shows like 91210 and Gossip Girl. The main character faces off with the evil vampire and saves someone else's life. The normal stuff. He faced off the killer vampire, “No matter what the guy was, he killed an innocent girl” (186). He risked his life. And the girl thanked him for it. Jason saved his friend from the vampires that were going to kill him. His friends were thankful. He got the girl. Again all heard multiple times before in multiple books.There wasn't much extraordinary. It was set up as a standard book, it was written as a standard teenage love story. There seemed to be no purpose behind it that I could fine. There didn't seem to be a meaning behind it. I don't know if I just didn't understand it, or if it was a foreign idea for me.I didn’t like it because it’s just a review of many books I’ve read before. It’s everything I’ve read in other books. There was no originality. It might have been original at one time but not now
review 2: Vampire Beach is Vampire Lite, with bloodsuckers who are - by and large - so barely there you don't even notice them harshing the 90210 vibe of the series. And this is largely just high school drama with a soupcon of the supernatural, kept moderately hip through setting and the antics of a cinema freak sidekick who name-drops on demand. Inoffensive, fun stuff, fast-paced, and strongly reminiscent of R.L. Stine back in the day. (Review stands for first four in series, bound here in two volumes: Bloodlust, Initiation, Ritual, and Legacy.) less

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