Children of the Night
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| Rating | : | 4.71 (737 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1469224852 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 282 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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so much of the novel is taken up with unnecessarily complex technical discussions of blood diseases and viruses that Dan Simmons is certainly one of the most inventive and literate writers of horror fiction today, and Children of the Night is without question a solid horror novel. Set in Romania just after the fall of Ceausescu's communist regime, Simmons presents a backdrop for this vampire novel that is appropriately chaotic, confusing, and corrupt.Hematologist Kate Neuman has been working in a Romanian hospital, tending to the astounding number of orphaned c. "Vampires, Transylvania, and Molecular Genetics in a Gripping Story!" according to Kendall Giles. Does the world need another vampire novel? I would say, yes, of course, especially if that novel is well written and adds something new or compelling to the literary conversation about vampires, a conversation that authors and readers have been having since 1872 with Sheridan Le Fanu's "Carmilla." In Children of the Night, Hugo award-winning author Dan Simmons makes a solid contribution to the ongoing vampire mythology by giving us not only a bel. "Good start, terrible second part" according to Jesus Flores. An interesting take on Vampire myth, where it is a double recesive genetic disorder that causes immune system anomalies negated by drinking blood or blood transfusions. The first part where Dr. Neuman is working in Romania, finds the sick baby, adoption, research in CDC, and even the attacks of the vampires to recover the kid, make for a 5 star book, but when she goes back to Romania the book suddenly turns into a dumb Hollywood action movie wher
. Simmons ( Song of Kali ) makes Children 's fantastical scientific claims easy to swallow, although the medical jargon in some of the American scenes is thicker than Bela Lugosi's accent (try out "hypogammaglobulinemia"). If the virus in his system responsible for this ability can be isolated, his diseases could be remedied and medical marvels would be within Kate's grasp. The key lies with a Romanian orphan adopted by American hematologist Kate Neuman; the infant, Joshua, has a series of rare diseases, and can survive only because his body extracts and processes genetic material from blood transfusions. The drawback is that Joshua has inherited his talents from the decrepit but murderous Vlad Dracula, and this patriarch of an accursed clan of blood-drinkers is more interested in perpetuating his power than in providing miracle cures for the
In a desolate orphanage in what remains of post-Communist Romania, a desperately ill infant is given the wrong blood transfusion - and flourishes when he's supposed to die. For a dedicated American doctor, he promises the medical breakthrough of a lifetime, as well as a very special love she's never been able to find. But he also conceals a shockingly intimate link to a clan of vampires and their legendary leader - the fiend the world calls Vlad Dracula, who, for centuries, has triumphed over countless rival tyrants, including death itself. The discovery of his unique immune system may hold the key to the long-awaited cure for cancer and AIDS