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Mary Paige (2013)

by Becket(Favorite Author)

3.54 of 5 Votes: 1

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Amazon Digital Services

series

The Blood Vivicanti

review 1: I wasn't sure what to expect when I started this novella. I read a couple reviews before I began and found mixed results, so I chose to keep an open mind. Initially, I didn't really like the style of writing, but the more I read the more fluid it became. I feel that this story is written in the way I would expect a graphic novel to be written, almost serialized, with short journal-like narratives. By the end I really wanted to learn more. I wanted deeper character development and wanted to continue Mary Paige's story. I'm looking forward to reading the other novellas in the series, but I would also love to see this concept turned into either a graphic novel or a deeper and richer full-length novel. I'm intrigued!
review 2: My, this was really bad. I love Anne R... moreice, but I can't begin to imagine what she was thinking putting her name on this novella. I'll begin by saying that the whole thing reads like an amateurish background story for a roleplaying game character. Very linear, very straightforward, very business-like, nothing like literature. The second major disappointment is the protagonist. Not only do I hate her name -reading all this stuff about names in the introduction I would have expected something better, I hate her as well. She comes off as a whiner - sob sob, I am so smart, sob sob, I am misunderstood, sob sob, I have a photographic memory, sob sob, I have perfect pitch, sob sob - and completely self-absorbed. Ok, she's 17, I'll give her that, but still, the fact that she CONSTANTLY feels the need to remind the reader of her photographic memory and perfect pitch etc really got to my nerves. Last but not least, there's no plot. Absolutely none. Nothing. Nada. It's basically a story telling us "I was born, I was raised, I became a vampire". Since we already know the last part from the very beginning of the story, the novella is completely uneventful and holds no surprises and no interest for the reader. It's basically the CV of a 17-year-old vampire brat with a superiority complex. less

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