reviews
Mar 04, 2011
Bob
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Axel Taiari’s A Light To Starve By is the epitome of Vampire Noir. We are at once thrust into a nightmare set in the near future in the world’s most beautiful city, Paris, France. Vampires and Werewolves are common knowledge. They rule the night. The Church goes military, developing a vaccine to keep the humans safe, and training mercs to take down the vampires any way possible.
Axel knows he’s not reinventing wheel with these vampires. He just maxed the horsepower and peaked the torqu More...
Axel knows he’s not reinventing wheel with these vampires. He just maxed the horsepower and peaked the torqu More...
Mar 04, 2011
Chris
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Vampires have existed in mankind's nightmares for thousands of years, going back to demonic entities such as the vetala of Hindu mythology, the Egyptian goddess Sekhmet, and the Mesopotamian Lilitu, who would go on to enter Hebrew mythology as Lilith, the first wife of Adam. In the 18th century Polidori, a contemporary of Lord Byron, would birth the romantic vampire with the short story The Vampyre. This idea would be further developed by Varney the Vampire by Rymer and then Dracula, the novel t
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Mar 09, 2011
Paul
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Axel Taiari’s A Light to Starve By is set in a modern-day Paris where vampires have run out of places to feed. Most vampires have joined one of the many clans that have popped up since the civil war, but our unnamed narrator claims no affiliations, a loner who is slowly starving to death like most others.
Life is tough for these vampires. If they’re not fighting each other, they’re running from hunters who ruthlessly scour the city in search of the undead.
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Life is tough for these vampires. If they’re not fighting each other, they’re running from hunters who ruthlessly scour the city in search of the undead.
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Nov 23, 2011
Al
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It seems vampire tales are everywhere these days. Sometimes they are almost like “one of us” (maybe even prime boyfriend or girlfriend material), while others they’re the enemy of humans. In "A Light to Starve By" they are the enemy, yet it is much different because the protagonist is a vampire, setting the reader up to sympathize and root for him – not because he is, or despite him being, a vampire, but due to his human qualities. Taiari does a great job in quickly acclimating the re
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Sep 02, 2011
Christopher
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Axel Taiari’s A Light To Starve By is an incredible example of what the vampire story should be: dark, violent, and grim. Set in Paris, France it encompasses a world where vampires, werewolves, and psychics are common knowledge. The creatures that go bump in the night are hunted to near extinction, where the story’s vampire survivors coalesce into clans, staving off hunger & trying to stay alive. These creatures will stay at the forefront of your nightmares.
In twenty-nine pages, Axe More...
In twenty-nine pages, Axe More...
Jun 19, 2011
Robb
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This is what short fiction should aspire to be.
In the brief span of 29 pages, Axel creates an entire world - set in the near future - where those creatures that go bump in the night exist and Vampires are on the brink of starvation due to a human vaccination that makes their blood poisonous to Vampires.
ALTSB is dark, violent, and grim. An original take on vampire fiction - it will shock you how much Taiari packs into such a small amount of space.
Probably the best s More...
In the brief span of 29 pages, Axel creates an entire world - set in the near future - where those creatures that go bump in the night exist and Vampires are on the brink of starvation due to a human vaccination that makes their blood poisonous to Vampires.
ALTSB is dark, violent, and grim. An original take on vampire fiction - it will shock you how much Taiari packs into such a small amount of space.
Probably the best s More...
Aug 06, 2011
Michael
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An all-too-brief foray into a dark world. Vampires exist here as an apex predator that humanity has finally learned to contain, leaving the remnants of their society in an impoverished state. I'm hoping this short work is the beginning of something much greater.
Jun 12, 2011
Bookedpodcast
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Top notch short story, Taiari creates a fascinating world filled with compelling characters. It's really a unique piece of vampire fiction and well worth the read.
Jul 06, 2011
Nicholas
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As a Facebook friend, I am of course going to give Axel the five stars. I have established my bias here. But I will say that the idea of vampires starving in Paris because of a new vaccine is a pretty darn interesting set up for this e-book. Definitely worth what is essentially pocket change on Amazon.
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