Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #625159 in Books
• Published on: 1995-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 560 pages

From the Publisher
If you like vampires and fast-paced horror-you'll love this!
Nancy Collins is best known for her Sonja Blue character.. we bring her to life in this one of a kind collection. The final book PAINT IT BLACK has never been published before! Read it for the first time! Look for her next book A DOZEN BLACK ROSES from White Wolf, available now! It promises to be Sonja at her best (or should we say worst). Email us with comments at kss@white-wolf.com and visit our website at www.white-wolf.com. And if you are a real Nancy Collins fan, look for an all original ANGELS ON FIRE summer 1997...No vampires, just a crash-landed angel and all the demons of hell! it's a new Nancy, and boy is it good...

Customer Reviews

Good, Comic book style fun
Sonja Blue is a vampire who delights in killing other vampires. The three books in this volume chronicle her origin, growth, and eventual fulfillment. A fascinating read that leaves you wanting for more, it is nonetheless not much more than mind candy.

Maybe the truest vampire tale ever told
The Sonja Blue novels were recommended by a friend with the caution...............it isn't Anne Rice you know. How right she was, this is no glossy, self searching world, Sonja Blue's world is terrifyingly real and it isn't just the vampyre that walks among us but all different shades, wraiths and demons.

Nancy A Collins' writing is exceptionally atmospheric and as much of a monster as she tries to make us believe this vampire killer of her own kin is, you find yourself feeling for this soul so tortured in her destiny. The books are bleak and dark and the violence is clearly defined and graphic, definitely not the best books to fall asleep reading.

As this incorporates the first three novels in the series it is the only place to start, it will leave you begging for more and fortunately there is more. However, if you like your vampires to be beauties in satin and lace then this denim and leather clad harpy will leave you cold outside, and sickened inside.

Uneven, but quite good.
This book is a trilogy, Book One is very good, gets 5 stars, deals with the birth (and rebirth) of our protagonist. Has some very nice scenes dealing with her old family. Book Two has the look and feel of Nancy's editor telling her "We need a book". Nice scenes involving her trying to retain her humanity. 3 stars. Book Three is very good, touching on all the issues in the previous two books and the current one, and leaves the way (thankfully) open for the next in the series. 4 stars.

One very neat thing about the character is the way Ms. Collins adapts the typical vampiric birth scene to fit her needs.