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Seventeen-year-old Jessica Allodola discovers that the vampire world of her fiction is real when she develops relationships with an alluring vampire named Aubrey and the teenage witch who is trying to save Jessica from his clutches.Tags
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High school senior Jessica Allodola, the author of a best-selling vampire thriller published under the pseudonym Ash Night, is shocked when Aubrey, one of the main characters from her book, shows up in the real world. As she struggles to assimilate the knowledge that the vampiric world which she thought a product of her imagination is in fact a reality, Jessica must also contend with the seductive Aubrey, the malicious Fala, and a do-gooding teenage witch determined to save her from the dark...
This second novel from Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, distinguished for writing her first novel at thirteen and seeing it published at fifteen, has a strong autobiographical flavor to it. Its disaffected gothic heroine will appeal to adolescent rebels, show more particularly those who enjoy romantic vampire stories. I found it a very creditable second effort, though I think I prefer the work of L.J. Smith, when it comes to books in this genre. show less
This second novel from Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, distinguished for writing her first novel at thirteen and seeing it published at fifteen, has a strong autobiographical flavor to it. Its disaffected gothic heroine will appeal to adolescent rebels, show more particularly those who enjoy romantic vampire stories. I found it a very creditable second effort, though I think I prefer the work of L.J. Smith, when it comes to books in this genre. show less
DNF: Tried a few chapters as part of Library Declutter of 2024. I can enjoy some cheesy vampire urban fantasy, but this was terribly written, so bland and really just a caricature of YA romantasy with an annoying, sullen MC, so Not Like Other Girls it's painful. Perhaps it's just dated as it was published in 2000, but I can't believe this was a series of 9 books written over 13 years. Maybe Stephanie Meyer took inspiration from it for Twilight (2005)...
Demon in My View gives the classic feel of vampires: dark, dangerous, predatory. Yet, it gives the reader a view of their pasts, as humans.
A breeze to read, the ending was satisfying and sensible.
A breeze to read, the ending was satisfying and sensible.
Interesting setup but mediocre execution. Jessica is an unusual teenager because, unbeknownst to her classmates, she's the author of a recently published novel about vampires. Her classmates shy away from her dark aura (and her unpleasant personality) until two new students arrive. Caryn tries desperately to be her friend. Aubrey bears a striking resemblance to one of Jessica's vampire characters and seems to be stalking her. Jessica soon discovers the world she thought she created from fiction actually exists and the vampires are none too pleased about being revealed to the world. Aubrey has been sent to kill her, Caryn to protect her.
Readers looking for somewhere to turn after Twilight will be disappointed in the lack of romantic show more tension between Jessica and Aubrey (though it is a series and will develop further). Too much time is spent on the hierarchy of bloodlines in witches and vampires, which is both confusing and distracting, but probably plays a role later.
A quick read that has potential to develop into an interesting series. Let's hope Jessica gets easier to like. show less
Readers looking for somewhere to turn after Twilight will be disappointed in the lack of romantic show more tension between Jessica and Aubrey (though it is a series and will develop further). Too much time is spent on the hierarchy of bloodlines in witches and vampires, which is both confusing and distracting, but probably plays a role later.
A quick read that has potential to develop into an interesting series. Let's hope Jessica gets easier to like. show less
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Jessica Allodola, a senior at Ramsa High School, is not your average teenager. Under the pen name Ash Night, Jessica has already published a vampire novel entitled TIGER, TIGER. She also has a pretty mean spirit, goes mostly ignored by her fellow students, and acts mostly indignantly towards her adopted mother.
The problem is that with the arrival of two new students in school, Caryn and Alex, her book seems to be coming to life. Caryn claims to be a witch, descended from the Smoke line that Jessica wrote about in her book. Alex, a spitting image for her anti-hero, Aubrey, might very well be a vampire. And suddenly life starts to get a whole lot more confusing.
DEMON IN MY VIEW is an entertaining vampire show more story, but it never gains the potential it might have if the story was fleshed out a bit more. Although Jessica's fiction begins to merge with real life, the chapters of the book are short, and the characters, though interesting, aren't as well-rounded as they could have been. What really irritated me about the book was the ending.
--SPOILER--SPOILER--SPOILER--
Aubrey turns Jessica into a vampire to save her life, but there's no resolution after that. Wham..she's a vampire..the end. I would have liked to have seen how the story progressed.
Overall, DEMON IN MY VIEW is a quick, fun read, but it's definitely not the best young adult vampire story out there. show less
Jessica Allodola, a senior at Ramsa High School, is not your average teenager. Under the pen name Ash Night, Jessica has already published a vampire novel entitled TIGER, TIGER. She also has a pretty mean spirit, goes mostly ignored by her fellow students, and acts mostly indignantly towards her adopted mother.
The problem is that with the arrival of two new students in school, Caryn and Alex, her book seems to be coming to life. Caryn claims to be a witch, descended from the Smoke line that Jessica wrote about in her book. Alex, a spitting image for her anti-hero, Aubrey, might very well be a vampire. And suddenly life starts to get a whole lot more confusing.
DEMON IN MY VIEW is an entertaining vampire show more story, but it never gains the potential it might have if the story was fleshed out a bit more. Although Jessica's fiction begins to merge with real life, the chapters of the book are short, and the characters, though interesting, aren't as well-rounded as they could have been. What really irritated me about the book was the ending.
--SPOILER--SPOILER--SPOILER--
Aubrey turns Jessica into a vampire to save her life, but there's no resolution after that. Wham..she's a vampire..the end. I would have liked to have seen how the story progressed.
Overall, DEMON IN MY VIEW is a quick, fun read, but it's definitely not the best young adult vampire story out there. show less
Moved a little fast, Jessica's frustration and confrontation with Aubrey is a little too contrived, but otherwise an amazing book from a young author, the concept was fantastic and the links between this one story to the entire mythos of the world Rhodes has created showed early on how great of an author she would become.
This story is filled with cliches and improbable situations (yes, even for vampire fiction), the characters are highly uncreative (pretty much flat) and everything is rendered highly predictable by the author's choice in view-point characters (no, he's not going to kill her, actually he fell madly in lust with her at first glance!).
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- Demon in My View
- Original publication date
- 2000-05-09
- People/Characters
- Aubrey Karew; Jessica Ashley Allodola; Caryn Rashida; Fala; Hasana Rashida; Anne Allodola (show all 11); Jager; Dominique Vida; Kate Katherine; Kaei; Shannon
- Important places
- New York, New York, USA
- Epigraph
- From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were- I have not seen
As others saw- I could not bring
My passions from a common spring-
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow- I could not awaken
My... (show all) heart to joy at the same tone-
And all I lov'd- I lov'd alone-
Then- in my childhood- in the dawn
Of a most stormy life- was drawn
From ev'ry depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still-
From the torrent, or the fountain-
From the red cliff of the mountain-
From the sun that round me roll'd
In its autumn tint of gold-
From the lightning of the sky
As it pass'd me flying by-
From the thunder, and the storm-
And the cloud that took the form
(Whan the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view-
Edgar Allan Poe - Dedication
- Dedicated to Jessica Guenther, who is a pillar of strength in rough times, an inspiration, and one of Aubrey's greatest admirers.
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- The night is full of mystery.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"Try it."
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