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Title: V-Wars
Series: V-Wars
#1
Editor: Jonathan Maberry
Rating: 3.5
of 5 Stars
Genre: SF
Pages: 405
Words:
154.5K
From Vwars.fandom.com
Conceived
of and edited by Bram Stoker Award-winner Jonathan Maberry, V-Wars:
is an anthology series of ‘eyewitness accounts’ and ‘frontline
reports’ from the vampire apocalypse. After an ancient virus that
causes vampire-like symptoms is accidentally released during an
Antarctic expedition, humanity must scramble to survive. In this
collection of interconnected but unique tales, contributing authors
Nancy Holder, Yvonne Navarro, James A. Moore, Gregory Frost, John
Everson, Keith R. A. DeCandido, and Scott Nicholson offer gripping
accounts of a world spinning towards war and destruction.
The “synopsis” was the best I could find without writing my own.
A set of authors all write multiple short stories about a character
and Maberry, the editor and one of the contributors, weaves the
stories all together into one tapestry. So you'll get a chapter from
Maberry about Character X, then a chapter by Navarro about Character
A, etc. Most of the characters have no overlap and are written so as
to give a broader view of the events happening.
Which basically is that vampires make a huge comeback and how
humanity deals with it. This was what I want in a vampire story.
Vamps kill humans in one way or another, bloody and violent and it's
all kill or be killed. The thing is, one or two characters are
perfectly slotted into the “Woke” side of things and bleat about
vamps and it not being their fault and we just have to understand and
try to get along with them. They were perfectly done and it took all
of my mighty might to appreciate that instead of raging at a
fictitional character.
The main reason this is getting only 3.5 instead of 4 is because
along with the blood and violence associated with vamps, we also get
the sexual side of things. There were too many near explicit scenes
for me to be comfortable with. If this trend continues in the next
book I'm afraid that it will be the last book in the series I read.
Right at the end there is a character who is revealed as an
anti-vamp. She's a werewolf and transforms in the presence of
vampires and kills them. It was awesome!
In many ways this reminded me of the Necroscope
series in both good and bad ways. That was another vampire series I
had to stop, so we'll see what happens with this one.
★★★✬☆
