Reviews

Vampires: The Recent Undead by Paula Guran

sarahnz's review

4.0

I started reading this as research because of a manuscript that came across my desk, but stayed because I enjoyed the writing and the variety of vampires. As in any short story collection there are some stories I think are stronger than others, but it also comes down to taste.

threadpanda's review

Giving up on reading this. The stories are kind of all over the place and none of them make me want to keep reading.

alyce6d980's review

2.0

It's been a very long time since I've read anything featuring vampires, and I have always loved short story anthologies, so I thought this was going to be a brilliant book. Alas, I ended up feeling very apathetic regarding most of the stories, and only loved a handful of them - because this was compiled in 2011 but a lot of the stories are a lot older, it feels seriously dated. It's also chock-a-block with editing errors, which makes me think it was churned out without much thought going into it: in three of the stories, the characters names are used incorrectly (e.g. Matilda being called Melinda). Based off of the content of the stories, I was going to make this a three star review, but with those issues that would have just been too high.

I've put all of the star ratings I gave the individual short stories, and a couple of sentences recapping the stories, here - I'm not going in depth on this one, though.