Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Lost Souls
Book Review: ...incredibly Gripping..MUST READ!!
Summary: 5 Stars
..it is a bit slow @ the begginning, but once the story gets along, it's incredible!! Zillah was my favorite, next to Nothing. Wonderful book!! P.S- yes, New Orleans is magical, but it's not as trashy as she makes it out to be.Book Review: ::Lost Souls::
Summary: 5 Stars
Lost Souls, is an astonishing horror novel written in 1992 by the talented young author Poppy Z. Brite. The book is about four people or groups of people who are all connected to each other in some way, but don't realize it. The main character out of all, is a 15 year old boy whose name is Nothing. Nothing is determined to leave his home in search for his real mother and his real family. Or at least just leave the home he lives in now, and find a fitting place to live. Ghost and Steve, two of the other main characters, are intelligent guys around the ages of 19 and 21. Together they have a band, Lost Souls, which is growing popularity around Missing Mile, North Carolina, where they live. "Lost Souls" is more than just a name for their band, it's a description for the both of them. Confused, lost, and drunk is how they live their lives most of the time. Molochai, Zillah, and Twig are the third group in this story. They are three immature vampires out for just a good time. Human morals don't exist, and they indulge themselves in their desired passion: killing people, depriving them of all their sweet blood and leaving their lifeless bodies to rot. Christian is the last main character. He, just like Zillah, Molochai, and Twig, is a vampire. The oldest one, and the most mature. He owns a bar in The French Quarter in New Orleans. In his bar is where he met Zillah, Molochai, and Twig for the first time. Since then, Christian has been determined to find them again. In the end, Nothing finds out the grotesque truth of his father and himself.Poppy's unique style of writing, makes this book all the more interesting. Mental pictures of pale faces painted with thick black eyeliner, dark hair and skinny bodies, creates a world of dreary loneliness and wanting. Along with the drugs, lust, blood, and anguish. She adds twists to every chapter to lure the you into reading more. Lost Souls is an excellent book, definitely worth reading.
Book Review: A 'can't put down' book.
Summary: 4 Stars
I thought this was one of the most wonderful vampire novels I have read. Poppy Brite modernizes the vampire in the most magnetic way, and always leaves a aroma of erotisism attached. If you are a goth, love vampire literature, or a lover of all things dark, you're going to want this book.Book Review: A Gothic Grim Tale of Gypsy Vampires, Steve and Ghost.
Summary: 5 Stars
The Vampires in Lost Souls are like none you have ever encountered anywhere else, in any other written form. Zillah and his clan live like wandering gypsy vampires on a quest to do nothing but party, have sex and kill. They're like a dangerous rock band made up of murderers and thieves.
A kid named Nothing comes in to the picture, and also later on in the novel, in a big way. He has a crappy home life. His parents don't understand his strange ways, which are to basically live in his own world, read rebellious books, and wear dark clothes. He takes off and winds up a kid on the hard roads, but eventually meets and then hangs out with Zillah and his gang of marauding bloodsuckers.
The two most memorable character in this book are, Steve and Ghost. They're the guys you would have hung out with in school, a little wild, but not enough that they're inhuman, absent of a soul.
Steve and Ghost are like brothers, and in the course of the book they befriend Nothing, and seeing that the kid is on the path to certain death with Zillah and his pals, try to step in and save the kid from the pack of vicious vampires out on the road.
Poppy Z. Brite makes sure to give you and intense ending, and you'll find her prose is creepy and elegant, and that it will take your mind to other worlds, other dark roads shadowed with fears and evils more real than you've read.
Lost Souls should be required reading for anyone who likes dark, surreal, intense horror, well written, that reads smooth as silk.
And after you get this one in the mail, don't throw it on the pile of books to be read later, get right to it and experience the magic of a well-crafted story.
Book Review: A Lost Cause
Summary: 2 Stars
Weak attempt at a hip vampire/cult novel. Watch a Buffy rerun or read a Rice novel, and skip this underdeveloped mess.