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City of Whispers (English Edition) Formato Kindle

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When an epidemic turns most New Yorkers into vampires, a handful of remaining humans find themselves struggling to survive in a quarantined Manhattan. As their numbers dwindle, Ailis Laurent undergoes a transformation of her own: she becomes a hardened vampire killer.
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    The Old City (City of Whispers, 2)
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    16 dicembre 2011
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McAuley
5,0 su 5 stelle Amazing idea, even better story!
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 22 gennaio 2012
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City of Whispers is about a woman named Ailis who has seen better days. even though she isn't that fond of New York, anything beats the New York that she lives in now. With vampires creeping the nights and looters roaming through the day, New York is a very unsafe, quarantined place. This is the story of the 26 (previously 40) survivors in New York.

I enjoyed this twist on the 'zombie world' story. Instead of mindless zombies who don't know how to move around vehicles, the characters are faced with vampires who can talk in hoarse whispers and scale tall buildings by way of ladder! Ailis is also a great main character. She isn't a helpless woman, nor is she a woman with an addiction to murdering vampires. She does what is necessary to survive.

Also, instead of the whole world being doomed, the government has managed to quarantine the problem to New York-including the survivors. They are told that anyone caught trying to swim across to vampire free lands will be shot, to reduce the spread of infection. Although the outside world helps, the survivors are working alone to survive, and to fight back.

Throughout the story, we are alongside Ailis, working with the other survivors as they fight back vampires, learn things about each other, and work together to vanquish the problem. The story didn't drag on at all, nor were there parts where I wished it would hurry up. The book gives us just enough information to make the virus believable, but not enough to reveal the entire story. I enjoyed reading all about Vampire torn New York, and about the characters. Luckily there were no intense love triangles or ruined relationships.

I have heard from the athor (in a forum) that there will be a sequel. I will buy this sequel, even though I really dislike series.

Would I buy from this author again? Heck ya!
Would I recommend this book to my friends? YES!
How much would I pay for this book? About $20, which is a lot for me.

I would LOVE to have this book on paper, and be able to put it on my shelf of favourite books.

You shouldn't miss out on this book, especially since it is so inexpensive.
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traci bullock
5,0 su 5 stelle Omg
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 24 maggio 2013
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This book is just fantastic, I would recommend it to anyone who has a taste for vampires and unusual situations. The story line was very interesting and I could hardly put the book down. I love it and I couldn't pick up on any faults. Although the text size and font varied a bit... :):)
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Debra Roberts
4,0 su 5 stelle Conflicted review
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 16 febbraio 2013
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I got this book when it was offered free and then was able to, as a Prime member, rent the second installment {Old City} for free so was all primed to give this five stars all around, but when I see the regular price is $2.99 I'm hesitant. If it were a 99cent book I'd still rave and say get it quick. But for almost three bucks I expect more than a book that abruptly ends, forcing you to read the second one if you care at all about the characters/story and want to know what happens. Here's where I say I haven't completed the second one yet, so maybe it's another cliffhanger. I'm assuming there will be some resolution and at least a few answers to all the questions that are part of the story line.

This book is a stepchild of a marriage between Buffy and the Cronin books. It's not badly [or brilliantly] written. So far no egregiously ignorant spelling or grammar errors [that will usually make me hit delete after a few pages]. While the characters are well past YA ages, it does somehow seem written for that market, or at least most of the characters display very juvenile outlooks. Maybe I'm just so old now that everything that smacks of frantic, bad decision making seems juvenile? Maybe.

The plot creates questions that make me wonder well, now what's up with that, and leads you in a direction without beating you over the head with the clues. Basically, I guess I'm invested enough in the story/characters that I'm willing to suspend disbelief where necessary.

I'm slightly dismayed now because this review is sounding negative when my intention was to write a good review. I'm enjoying the books. Enjoyed the first one so much that I without a thought went to purchase the second one so I could continue the story. The fact I could borrow it for free was an unexpected bonus. I guess I'd say if you're a Prime member, yes, it's worth the 2.99 because you can then get the second one immediately and for free. If you'd read any of my other reviews you know I'm a picky reader. I want to be entertained; I want to [usually] not to have to work too hard at following a plot line -- that's too much like my work; I want characters who evolve and relationships that make sense and change as characters change; I don't want idiotic choices made by dithering characters; I don't want to be told endlessly plot developments that have already happened. This book meets most of my criteria. When I'm not reading it, I find myself thinking about the characters, wondering how they're doing, hoping it all turns out well for them.
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lorna
5,0 su 5 stelle back to old ways
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 15 febbraio 2013
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decided to just pick this cos I was bored, but I bloody enjoyed it, I love the way it takes vampire back to being evil, blood drinking, sun burning creatures of the night, this kept me on edge the whole night I stayed awake reading, I love the story line, bring on book two,
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Terreciel
3,0 su 5 stelle A VampireVirus
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 20 agosto 2012
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A virus infects the inhabitants of Manhattan, killing many outright, turning many more into vampires, and leaving the rest to try to survive. The government quickly quarantines the city, blocking all means of entering or exiting. Our heroine, Ailis, begins in the story as a frightened young woman who has barricaded herself in her apartment with her friend Beth. It continues with Ailis' growing knowledge of how to survive, from meeting and banding together with others who've also survived to noticing what strategies work best to kill the vampires.

The character development was fairly good; clear enough to tell the difference between a dozen of the main characters and understand their various motivations for their actions. The plot line wasn't original (virus strikes and kills almost everyone and the survivors have to figure out how to stay alive), but there were enough original details to prevent the book from being formulaic. I thought that the vampires behaved more like zombies. Perhaps they were some kind of crossbreed.

The writing style didn't have any turns of phrase that make one notice a deft way with words, but neither was it awkward or clumsy. While it may not have been stylish, it was well-edited and proofread. This in itself was a pleasant improvement over many of the self-published books I've gotten from Amazon and earns this book half a star for being readable.

This book is ok. Not awful, not terrific. It would appeal most to people who like apocalyptic/vampire-zombie stories who aren't experts on how vampires are supposed to behave.

I don't think this was intended to be a YA book, but it is suitable for a young audience, perhaps as young as 12. There are no sex scenes and the violence is minimal and not extremely graphic. (For example, to destroy the vampires, they have to have a wooden stake driven through their heart and then have their head cut off. There are corpses in the street but not detailed descriptions of their conditions.)

The ending IS a cliffhanger. It would have been good to know in advance that this was going to be a series. Nowhere on the cover or in the editorial review does it mention this. I can understand why people hated the ending.

Now some spoilers:

*****Spoilers!*********

Ok, so our heroine is a Manhattan lawyer, she develops ninja skills in her pursuit and destruction of the vampires. She also develops an ability to sense the presence of vampires nearby.

A couple of weeks after the virus strikes, the US government starts doing food and supply drops daily to the handful of survivors but won't let them leave, even to put them in quarantine somewhere else, even after several months since the virus started and these survivors clearly aren't contagious, even though there are only 47 unaffected people left (who have all managed to find each other in a city the size of Manhattan). Of course, something fishy is up, but it still seemed unbelievable that the government would leave a handful of people to fend for themselves in a city full of vampires. The helicopter doing the drops provides them with a radio to communicate what they need and occasionally lets them talk to relatives on 'the outside.' Enough information leaks via these conversations to flood the media with sensational stories of our intrepid vampire killers. (But the government still won't let them leave the island.)

The book totally lost credibility for me when Ailis discovers that the virus has also affected London, where her sister lives. This discovery comes about because a British doctor has been dropped into their midst, supposedly to study the phenomena, and he inadvertently reveals that London has the virus too. Of course, the rich are evacuated from London, all except the son of one of the wealthiest people in Great Britain. Ailis' fame as a vampire-killing expert has come to the attention of this rich man, Richard (a transparent copy of Richard Branson), who wants to hire Ailis to come to London to rescue his son. Ailis is determined to rescue her sister, so she agrees. She wants a couple of her friends to come with to help, so he offers them $25 million each as a retainer and another $25 million when they finish the job, along with a small island in the Caribbean on which to live when they return.

Why doesn't she ask that the rest of the survivors be sent to this safe island before she goes? Instead, she and her two friends are picked up by Richard's private jet (which lands on 6th Avenue!) and leaves the remaining 20 or so people to continue to fend for themselves.
I am wondering if the loose ends of the people left in New York will ever be addressed or if the next book will just move on with Ailis' story.
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