By: Annette Curtis Klause Publisher: Laurel Leaf Average Rating: Binding: Mass Market Paperback Label: Laurel Leaf Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 224 Publication Date: August 01, 1992 Reading Level: Young Adult Release Date: August 01, 1992
Product Description: Zoe is wary when, in the dead of night, the beautiful yet frightening Simon comes to her house. Simon seems to understand the pain of loneliness and death and Zoe's brooding thoughts of her dying mother.
Simon is one of the undead, a vampire, seeking revenge for the gruesome death of his mother three hundred years before. Does Simon dare ask Zoe to help free him from this lifeless chase and its insufferable loneliness?
Beautifully written, great characters, scary gore, one of the best I am a great fan of the Twilight series. This author's writing is quite a few notches up from S. Meyer's. The Silver Kiss story is engrossing. The language is poetic and gorgeous. The finely drawn characters draw you in, immediately. The story was written in 1990 and so the references to the Ramones dates it a bit, but if you overlook any those small out of date references, the story is timeless, heartbreaking and unforgettable. All the thoughts, conversations, internal turmoil that our heroine goes through as she is struggling with her family that is trying to get through her mother's fight with cancer and how she naturally feels a kinship with the vampire's desire to avenge his own mother's death is pitch perfect.
The Compulsive Reader's Reviews Zoë has been existing in a fog for the past months, ever since cancer forced her mother into the hospital. She practically lives on her own. Her father spends every minute with her mom and limits Zoë's time with her. But then a series of brutal killings in Zoë's town brings Zoë and the mysterious Simon together. Simon is not human, and claims that the murderer isn't either. And unless Zoë helps him, the unlikely killer won't be stopped.
The Silver Kiss has the perfect eerie and hazy setting to draw the reader in and set the perfect mood. Despite the book being shorter than most of the genre, Klause artfully builds suspense at the perfect pace, and makes the serious tone of the book quite entertaining by cleverly interspersing sharp, witty comments throughout the story. Though originally written and published almost twenty years ago, this book has a timeless air that makes it easy to fall headfirst into. The Silver Kiss is proof that a novel doesn't have to be a weighty tome in order to be thrilling and captivating.
A Very Memorable Read I picked this book up about ten years ago, and it still remains one of my favorite books. A wonderful story with engaging characters, a wonderful gift to a teenage girl. If you like this book, I strongly suggest you also read Companions of the Night and Blood and Chocolate.
Only ok This book strangely left me with the creeps and not the good kind. The kind that make you feel like you need a shower. The writing was ok and the story line was ok. Not great, but not terrible. But some of the descriptions were just plain creepy. For example when Christopher sucks the blood out of lady like a baby sucking its mother. Yuck!
The characters were not fleshed out as much as I feel they should and could have been. Simon and Zoe fall in 'love' (if that's what you want to call if) way too fast. There is basically no back story except he is a guy who sees her in the park. There is no way any girl should let a guy go home with her when she has spoken to him a total of 2 times and he was a creepy kid in a park in the middle of the night.
Much of the Bram Stoker kind of superstition about vampires is true in this story, ie: the sunlight, native soil, crosses etc. But it does nothing for the story. The ending is trivial and not all that exciting. Expecially when Simon leaves. I thought that was cheesy.
I agree with what someone else wrote. Read it but don't buy it! Just a way to pass the time until something better comes along.
Hated It This has to be one of the, if not THE worst book I've ever read. I like vampire themed stories and I thought The Silver Kiss looked intriguing. I was wrong. Totally and completely wrong. It was horribly written, and lacked likable characters. For the age group it's meant for, I found that it was inappropriate. I couldn't figure out why the author felt the need to put so much bad language in a childern's book. Also, it seemed to keep going in circles. All the main character ever did was take countless trips to the hospital and whine about how unfair life is. And don't even get me started on Simon. Ugh! Avoid this book at all costs.
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