Thirsty

As if Chris doesn't have enough to worry about --his parents constant bickering, his best friend growing apart from him, the girl he likes doesn't know he's alive--but those are the least of his troubles. Chris is turning into a vampire and he's being used as a tool in a battle between good and evil and he doesn't know who to trust.

This book took me a while to get used to because it's written in first person present tense. I don't think I've ever read a book in present tense. Once I got over that, I really enjoyed it. Anderson really takes you inside Chris's head and you can't help but love him and feel sorry for what he's going through. He's fighting his most burning desire--to drink human blood, all while fighting off creepy things in the woods, delving into vampire lairs and humiliating himself in front of his peers. Thirsty is a little different then the more popular teen vampire novels out there right now, but it definitely deserves to be read.

I finished this book two days ago and waited to give a review in hopes of finding something positive to comment on. That being said, I've found nothing. I don't like to give negative reviews of books but I can't think of one positive thing to say about it.

The summary on the back of the book was what made me pick this up. That part was really intriging. I was thinking it would be a bit more light hearted than it was. I started the book and within 2 chapters I was ready to stop. The style of writing was already grating on my nerves. I really hate not finishing a book though, so I read on. The story was told in first person, that person being a 15 or 16 year old boy. The writing was really confusing. There were parts that sounded more like a 8 year old telling the story and a few pages later the writing was way too mature to sound like a teenage boy. Some people are saying "You don't understand the book". I read the back cover explaining the authors thoughts. I read the story. I understood the oppression, the teenage angst.... I just thought it was poorly written.

I did think of one positive thing about the book and it's the one thing most reviewers disliked. I thought the ending was pretty good. Or at least the idea of the ending. The author could've wrote it better (along with the rest of the book) but it was unexpected and made you think a bit.

Now that I think about it... there is a lot of good material in this book. I liked the new twist of being cursed into a vampire. I just think that a different author could've done the material justice. This one did not.

Another fabulous book by M.T. Anderson! He writes with witty sarcasm that some can't stand but I just love. I hope Anderson continues to give us many more incredible books for intelligent readers. So far I haven't picked up one I haven't enjoyed. They are all different -- some funny, some very serious. They will all get adults and teens alike thinking.

Honestly the worst thing I have EVER read. I've read a lot too. There was not a single likable character, the main character was painfully boring, the writing truly horrendous, and the mindless, pointless plot is spotted with random and cruel depictions of badly explained violence.

I read the full book in the vain hope that one single ray of redemption would show itself, but no, the main character ends up curled up in his bedroom waiting for his obviously heartless parent's to turn him in to be killed horribly.

That was a major problem. In the beginning you are treated to the description of a vampire being led away to be blinded and killed horribly. Vampire yes, but you are given no reason. Was this person really this bad? Who is this person? Who honestly deserves this? I am not easily effected by violence, especially in print, but I just found this scene distressing.

And the main character, I don't even remember his name. Is he mentally retarded? This can be the only explaination he talks like an idiot. Something along the lines of "They walked ahead. I walked after then. I walked slower."

Any of the mythology thrown in is hopelessly tacked on in this badly missmatched excuse for a novel. You get a bit of an explaination, but nothing compelling or interesting. In the end, no one wins and it all just sucks. NOTHING HAPPENS. AT ALL.

Nothing important is resolved and what wasn't boring made me feel just plain bad.

It literally made me ill for the two days after I slogged through it's wash of horrendous writing. It's not even worth reading for the value of saying that "yes, this is bad."

Never touch this book. Ever.

Burn it if possible.

I hated the ending. The book itself wasn't all bad. It was just mostly bad. I love vampire fiction and this fell way way short.