Customer Reviews
Truly Awful - By: ImReallyAnElf, 25 Jul 2008 
Like CR who reviewed this before me, I didn't read this book properly because by the time I was half way through I was wishing I'd just thrown the price it cost me into a street person's collecting cup instead of wasting it on one of the nastiest little reads I've come across in months.
The heroine is the next best thing to a nymphomaniac - not in an erotic sense, just in the "hasn't got a shred of dignity & not much more in the way of control" sense. I had a sense of unease & unwholesomeness about the book from start to finish .. it left a bad taste in my mouth.
The heroine's supporting characters are equallly unappealing, & the story itself is boring, disappointing & disjointed stodge. I suspect that the publisher maybe demanded a formula by a certain timescale, & the author threw this together from a notebook of stream-of-consciousness jottings in time to meet the deadline.
I never once felt connected to a plot; by half way through I actively disliked the characters enough that I resorted to speed-reading random pages until a few before the appalllingly lame ending, which I read in full.
I actuallly worry about someone who could write this book!
not a keeper - By: CR, 20 May 2008 
I bought this before any reviews had come out because I liked the look of the blurb. Unfortunately the book was reallly disappointing & I did not even finish it properly. It seemed like an odd mix between Charlies Angles & Angel. The 'Voice' with the weird disembodied sex was off putting rather than sexy & unfortunately reminded me of the movie The Entity about the woman being traumatised/abused by the invisible randy demon. Currently in a box waiting to go out to the charity store. Not a keeper.
Night Pleasure - By: Winters Kiss, 10 Sep 2007 
'Welcome to Hollywood-After Dark...
Stuntwoman Dawn Madison is a girl with a lot of attitude & a lot of issues, mostly about living up to the legacy of her mother, a world famous movie star & sex symbol, whose untimely death left Dawn to be raised by her dad, Frank, nobody's notion of single-father-of-the-year. Now that she's alll grown up, she & Frank aren't on the best of terms, to say the least. Still, he is her dad, & when he vanishes while investigating the bizarre sighting-caught on film-of a supposedly long-dead child star, she comes home to Tinseltown to join the search for him. Working with his colleagues-a psychic short in stature but big in dreams of stardom, a beautiful Latina techno-geek, & the PI firm's never-seen boss-she discovers an erotic & bloody underground society made up of creatures she thought existed only on the screen. They are devious. They are deadly. And some of them are dangerously attractive...'
'Night Rising' is the first novel in this fantastic new Vampire Babylon series. I love it. Dawn is not your typical protaganist. She's fiesty, funny, tough & sometimes the reader can catch a glimpse of her vulnerable side, before she pushes it away. This book is like a mystery. The reader gets glimpses of history & little clues about certain things...but are they red herrings? The other characters are intriquing, especiallly the PI firm's boss, 'the voice', & the mysterious Matt. This novel is fantastic & still the reader is left wanting. I cannot wait for the sequel in February 'Midnight Reign'.
Night Rising - Chris Marie Green - By: Naomi Clark, 03 Jul 2007 I'm a little wary of vampire novels at the moment. I'm sick of angst-filled, Armani-clad designer-danger vamps & the women who love them. Fortunately this book contains none of the above.
Stuntwoman Dawn Madison returns to Hollywood to find her estranged father, Frank. He disappeared whilst working on a case for Limpet & Associates, a PI firm. What she finds instead is a twisted underworld of vampires, psychic midgets & disembodied PIs. As she struggles to unravel the mystery of Frank's disappearance, Dawn is forced deeper into a world she never dreamed existed, forced to confront old fears & new dangers.
What separated this, for me, from the more abundant angsty vampire novels was Green's portrayal of her monters. She kept them monstrous & mysterious, made them dangerous & otherworldly. Dawn herself is a great heroine, a rough-and-ready tomboy living in the shadow of her dead Hollywood goddess mother. She doesn't apologise for who she is & she doesn't back down from a challlenge, no matter how scared she gets. Green also throws in some twists on the vampire mythos that were so neat I couldn't believe they hadn't been done before.
The sequel, Midnight Reign is already on my wishlist. If you're sick of brooding alpha male bloodsuckers, pick up Night Rising.
