Derek Gunn
Autor(a) de Vampire Apocalypse: A World Torn Asunder
About the Author
Séries
Obras por Derek Gunn
The 2012 Octocon Anthology — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
The 2011 Octocon Anthology — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
The Third Option 2 exemplares
Associated Works
Vampires, Zombies, Werewolves and Ghosts: 25 Classic Stories of the Supernatural (2011) — Contribuidor — 37 exemplares
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Conhecimento Comum
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Ireland
- Locais de residência
- Dublin, Ireland
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Derek Gunn is the author of the Vampire Apocalypse series, widely praised on both sides of the Atlantic.
The first two books in the series, A World Torn Asunder and Descent into Chaos, are available at online book sellers or can be ordered from your favourite book store if they don’t have it in stock. The third VA book, Vampire Apocalypse: Fallout, is due out in 2009. Derek is currently working on a new stand alone novel.
The first Vampire Apocalypse book is currently in development as a major movie.
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Críticas
Vampire Apocalypse Books 1 - 3 por Derek Gunn
Story up the point I gave up seemed OK within genre, but awful editing. From the recurrent misuse of homophones someone seems to only have corrected words that didn't exist at all and showed up in red in a basic spell-checker, and called it a day.
½
This is the second book I have read by Mr. Gunn. The first, The Estuary, is also of the zombie genre, and I have read it several times. I like reading stories of survival from across the pond because, stop and think: they are very limited to gun access! Yeah, I like the shoot 'em up z novels, but its nice reading something where the characters have to innovative about their weapons. I would recommend anything by Derek Gunn.
A while ago I was sent the first Vampire Apocalypse book to review, which you can read about here. I was looking forward to the second book, and I wasn’t disappointed.
To recap, the world is thrust into confusion due to a energy crisis, and it’s into this world that the vampires appear, after living in secret for years. These vampires are not the ones that have been found in recent novels, but are vicious killers.
In this second book, the vampires have split themselves into cabals, controlling certain areas of the US. There are both ancient and younger vampires, with their teams of thralls to keep control in the day light hours. Most humans have been captured, and under the influence of a serum, are being kept for food. A small group, however, are living in secret, and are fighting to free more - their latest plan is to cause confusion between two cabals, setting them up against each other.
As with the first book, this is a book about war, with the vampires adding an extra horror element. This makes for an action packed book, which doesn’t let up until the last page. Again, the human stories aren’t deeply explored, but there’s enough to add another layer of interest. The vampires are explored a little more than in the first book, and it is rather refreshing to find a return to the type of creature you would expect in as an ‘undead’.
Each book so far has wrapped up the particular story line it focuses on, but leaves it open for the next one.. I look forward to the next!… (mais)
To recap, the world is thrust into confusion due to a energy crisis, and it’s into this world that the vampires appear, after living in secret for years. These vampires are not the ones that have been found in recent novels, but are vicious killers.
In this second book, the vampires have split themselves into cabals, controlling certain areas of the US. There are both ancient and younger vampires, with their teams of thralls to keep control in the day light hours. Most humans have been captured, and under the influence of a serum, are being kept for food. A small group, however, are living in secret, and are fighting to free more - their latest plan is to cause confusion between two cabals, setting them up against each other.
As with the first book, this is a book about war, with the vampires adding an extra horror element. This makes for an action packed book, which doesn’t let up until the last page. Again, the human stories aren’t deeply explored, but there’s enough to add another layer of interest. The vampires are explored a little more than in the first book, and it is rather refreshing to find a return to the type of creature you would expect in as an ‘undead’.
Each book so far has wrapped up the particular story line it focuses on, but leaves it open for the next one.. I look forward to the next!… (mais)
Picking up two years after VAMPIRE APOCALYPSE: A WORLD TORN ASUNDER, we find our surviving humans (still led by Harris) plotting a way to bring two factions of vampires against each other while attempting to keep their own location a secret.
Gunn's V.A. series features (not only) humans battling some of the more brutal vamps you've ever seen, but also vampire slaves known as "Thralls," who possess super human strength, yet not as strong as their undead masters.
The first installment featured nearly non-stop action. While this one is much of the same, I found the first 90 pages to be a bit routine; its lack of dialogue slows down the prose and I began to lose interest. But when Chapter Nine kicks in (as we follow a side-plot dealing with former hitman-now-Thrall, Ralf Falconi), CHAOS dives head first into what (I guess) can be labeled a "military vampire" adventure that'll have fans of the UNDERWORLD films as happy as a rabid cannibal at a weight watchers meeting.
In fact, this one reads like a cross between UNDERWORLD and UNDER SEIGE 2: DARK TERRITORY, as much of the second half takes place aboard a train our survivors use to rescue human prisoners. While some of the characters here (both living and undead) are forgettable, he generates enough into his main protagonists that I'm interested to see where he takes the third novel.
The first book of this series is currently being made into a "major motion picture" (according to the author's profile). Both books DO read like a summer blockbuster, so if that's your thing you might get a charge out of this violent action yarn. If your bloodsucking preferences are along the lines of TWILIGHT, you probably won't get it. (VAMPIRE APOCALYPSE: FALLOUT is the forthcoming third title).… (mais)
Gunn's V.A. series features (not only) humans battling some of the more brutal vamps you've ever seen, but also vampire slaves known as "Thralls," who possess super human strength, yet not as strong as their undead masters.
The first installment featured nearly non-stop action. While this one is much of the same, I found the first 90 pages to be a bit routine; its lack of dialogue slows down the prose and I began to lose interest. But when Chapter Nine kicks in (as we follow a side-plot dealing with former hitman-now-Thrall, Ralf Falconi), CHAOS dives head first into what (I guess) can be labeled a "military vampire" adventure that'll have fans of the UNDERWORLD films as happy as a rabid cannibal at a weight watchers meeting.
In fact, this one reads like a cross between UNDERWORLD and UNDER SEIGE 2: DARK TERRITORY, as much of the second half takes place aboard a train our survivors use to rescue human prisoners. While some of the characters here (both living and undead) are forgettable, he generates enough into his main protagonists that I'm interested to see where he takes the third novel.
The first book of this series is currently being made into a "major motion picture" (according to the author's profile). Both books DO read like a summer blockbuster, so if that's your thing you might get a charge out of this violent action yarn. If your bloodsucking preferences are along the lines of TWILIGHT, you probably won't get it. (VAMPIRE APOCALYPSE: FALLOUT is the forthcoming third title).… (mais)
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