Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #80835 in Books
• Published on: 2007-02-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

Customer Reviews

Night Pleasure
'Welcome to Hollywood-After Dark...
Stuntwoman Dawn Madison is a girl with a lot of attitude and a lot of issues, mostly about living up to the legacy of her mother, a world famous movie star and sex symbol, whose untimely death left Dawn to be raised by her dad, Frank, nobody's notion of single-father-of-the-year. Now that she's all grown up, she and Frank aren't on the best of terms, to say the least. Still, he is her dad, and when he vanishes while investigating the bizarre sighting-caught on film-of a supposedly long-dead child star, she comes home to Tinseltown to join the search for him. Working with his colleagues-a psychic short in stature but big in dreams of stardom, a beautiful Latina techno-geek, and the PI firm's never-seen boss-she discovers an erotic and bloody underground society made up of creatures she thought existed only on the screen. They are devious. They are deadly. And some of them are dangerously attractive...'

'Night Rising' is the first novel in this fantastic new Vampire Babylon series. I love it. Dawn is not your typical protaganist. She's fiesty, funny, tough and sometimes the reader can catch a glimpse of her vulnerable side, before she pushes it away. This book is like a mystery. The reader gets glimpses of history and little clues about certain things...but are they red herrings? The other characters are intriquing, especially the PI firm's boss, 'the voice', and the mysterious Matt. This novel is fantastic and still the reader is left wanting. I cannot wait for the sequel in February 'Midnight Reign'.

Night Rising - Chris Marie Green
I'm a little wary of vampire novels at the moment. I'm sick of angst-filled, Armani-clad designer-danger vamps and the women who love them. Fortunately this book contains none of the above.

Stuntwoman Dawn Madison returns to Hollywood to find her estranged father, Frank. He disappeared whilst working on a case for Limpet and Associates, a PI firm. What she finds instead is a twisted underworld of vampires, psychic midgets and disembodied PIs. As she struggles to unravel the mystery of Frank's disappearance, Dawn is forced deeper into a world she never dreamed existed, forced to confront old fears and new dangers.

What separated this, for me, from the more abundant angsty vampire novels was Green's portrayal of her monters. She kept them monstrous and mysterious, made them dangerous and otherworldly. Dawn herself is a great heroine, a rough-and-ready tomboy living in the shadow of her dead Hollywood goddess mother. She doesn't apologise for who she is and she doesn't back down from a challenge, no matter how scared she gets. Green also throws in some twists on the vampire mythos that were so neat I couldn't believe they hadn't been done before.

The sequel, Midnight Reign is already on my wishlist. If you're sick of brooding alpha male bloodsuckers, pick up Night Rising.

Truly Awful
Like CR who reviewed this before me, I didn't read this book properly because by the time I was half way through I was wishing I'd just thrown the price it cost me into a street person's collecting cup instead of wasting it on one of the nastiest little reads I've come across in months.

The heroine is the next best thing to a nymphomaniac - not in an erotic sense, just in the "hasn't got a shred of dignity and not much more in the way of control" sense. I had a sense of unease and unwholesomeness about the book from start to finish .. it left a bad taste in my mouth.

The heroine's supporting characters are equally unappealing, and the story itself is boring, disappointing and disjointed stodge. I suspect that the publisher maybe demanded a formula by a certain timescale, and the author threw this together from a notebook of stream-of-consciousness jottings in time to meet the deadline.

I never once felt connected to a plot; by half way through I actively disliked the characters enough that I resorted to speed-reading random pages until a few before the appallingly lame ending, which I read in full.

I actually worry about someone who could write this book!