Thirsty by M.T. Anderson Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Thirsty
Book Review: a morally ambiguous world
Summary: 5 Stars
Are the good guys good? Are the bad guys bad? What about you--you think you're good, but are you?The line between good and bad isn't fuzzy, but it's hard to tell who stands where. This is a cool book about growing up, good and evil, and pretty girls, some of whom are vampires.
Book Review: Disappointing!!!
Summary: 3 Stars
I'm pretty disappointed... The novel is an incomplete story, if you ask me. Everything was very good, though the author lacked in his theme and plot. To tell the truth, the novel was total incomplete. I think the author rushed carelessly through the novel. If he chose to write a chronicle--where is it? Did he completely rush through the book because he got tired of writing and wanted some money from the incomplete novel, and think the readers won't notice? Well, I notice alright, and I'm disappointed and upset. I won't recommend this. I would expect more from this novel. I read through it day by day, hoping that the novel would turn around and get better. I was wrong, the ending ended like that's the end the whole world will die. Whatever... I dislike this book.Book Review: "Thirsty," like, missed the BITE
Summary: 2 Stars
Hmmm, raging hormones, the gorgeous crush, the battles with the parents, the name-calling older brother, rock music... all the familiar aspects of adolescents... but on top of all these traumatic life-threatening problems, vampirism isn't quite the usual one. However, Chris just happens to be one of those unlucky "unusual" people. Strange things are happening to him that just can't be explained away as "some teen thing." Odd cravings... sleeplessness... disappearing from mirrors... how do you work THAT into a conversation with Mommy? And to top it off, Chris is being asked to take part in stopping a plot that could send an ancient Vampire Lord to ruin the world. "Thirsty" had a lot of really great possibilities, but like the title, I was left at the end of the book with that dry throat feeling unquenched. Something about the novel never just quite clicked 'real.' The dialogue was a bit hard to sort through sometimes. "Just because, like, teens, like, use, like, the 'like' word, like, a lot" doesn't mean it's easy to read on paper. In fact reading the consistent use of 'likes' and stereotypical 'teen' colloquialisms really started to get on my nerves. Lots of the name-calling seemed more appropriate for fourth graders rather than high schoolers. In many instances it detracted from what otherwise was humourous dialogue, and instead made it a chore to sift through. Also, the entire "save the world from the evil vampire lord" subplot seemed trivialized and a bit unnecessary. The entire emotional dilemma that Chris was in (you know "help! I'm becoming a vampire and don't know what to do!") could've been plenty to base the entire novel on, but instead Chris not only has to be a teen-vampire, but save the world as well.
If you love vampire books (like me), try another book like "The Silver Kiss," by Annette Curtis Klause, or for the more mature audiences, look into the Queen of the Undead, Anne Rice, and her novels like "Interview with the Vampire" and "Pandora." You might find a bit more there to sink your teeth into.
Book Review: it waz soooooooo good!!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
hey this is the best book ever! i loved it alot. hte ending left meh hanging so if you could please write a sequel to this book please. I think it would be nice to see what happeneds to chris and rebecca. And if he tells her. Then see what happened to his family. He could go to the school and end p being good or he could be bad. So please i say and so does the rest of our school..please write another to continue this good book!steph
Book Review: Complex, disturbing, funny book
Summary: 5 Stars
I was amazed at this powerful story of a young man confronting forces so far beyond his control that every plan he makes, every instinct he has absorbed from the horror movies that he and his friends constantly discussed prove to be woefully inadequate. _Thirsty_ is an amazingly example of a genre writing against itself. On tap of that, I liked the tone of Anderson's first-person narrator -- sarcastic, confused, but also shy. He's a 15- or 16-year-old guy trying to figure out how the world works -- and if that weren't enoough, he's beginning to suspect he's a vampire and a pawn in a mysterious battle between the Forces of Light and Dark.
I'm going to read everything M.T. Anderson writes for the rest of my life.