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  <title><![CDATA[Midnight Blue: The Sonja Blue Collection]]></title>
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  <default_description>Enter the nightmare world of Sonja Blue: an independent, strong, and beautiful woman who also happens to be a murderous vampire - and vampire slayer. &lt;p&gt;To avenge herself on the monster who turned her, against her will, into one of the undead, Sonja Blue hunts the vampires who prey on unsuspecting humans. Wearing a leather jacket and mirrored sunglasses, armed with a silver switchblade, she haunts the shadows of the world's greatest cities, continually searching for her prey. Sonja's greatest enemy, however, is the Other - the demon that has shared her mind since her resurrection twenty years ago. &lt;p&gt;Follow Sonja Blue as she descends into a hell on earth - a world where reality can be swept aside at any moment to reveal a shadowy domain of monsters and miracles. &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Midnight Blue&lt;/b&gt; collects, for the first time anywhere, the award-winning Sonja Blue Collection: &lt;i&gt;Sunglasses After Dark&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;In the Blood&lt;/i&gt;, and &lt;i&gt;Paint It Black&lt;/i&gt;.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1988</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Midnight Blue: The Sonja Blue Collection</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Nancy A. Collins]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is NOT your typical brooding romantic vampire story. Ohhhh, no. <em>This</em> is a gritty urban cyberpunk trilogy that starts off with a young woman left for dead after a vampire attack. <br/>Back in the day, she would have died, only to climb out of her grave a shambling, dull-witted revenant. But her...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29821709">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 1999</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had my kids read this after the hullabaloo over Twilight series. I'm old school I guess and like the vampiric tale to be a bit dark. You'll be hard pressed to find darker than Sonja. Been a while since I read it but I certainly enjoyed it. Not high literature and it is is what it is but the author...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50395421">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="53830489">
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1992</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Outside of the fact that the vampire as hero has gotten WAY too overdone, my other complaint is that there just aren't enough female vampire heroines out there to balance the testosterone.  It's almost sexist how female vamps get short shrift in popular literature.  I mean come on, what's not to lik...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53830489">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="66321090">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting take on the vampire genre. Sonja Blue is a vampire hunter... and also a vampire herself. She struggles to keep the human part of her alive, while battling the dark &quot;Other&quot; within. The duality is quite interesting. <br/><br/>Over the course of the three novels in this &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66321090">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="35267523">
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    <body><![CDATA[I first read Nancy A. Collins in <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1280395.The_Vampire_Sextette" title="The Vampire Sextette by Marvin Kaye">The Vampire Sextette</a>, and loved her.  I got the Sonja Blue collection right after.<br/><br/>It's sad that Collins gets overlooked as people go for the vampire as romantic hero books.  She shouldn't be.  The Sonja Blue novels are dark and violent, but more real in t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35267523">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72505005">
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Oct 01 17:27:06 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I will admit that I read only the 2nd and 3rd book in this bound volume, as I have read the first book as a stand-alone novel many times in the past dozen or so years. I found the 2nd and 3rd books equal to the first in most ways, and it was nice to see the story rounded out a bit more -- more infor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72505005">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="53130954">
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    <body><![CDATA[It's been a long time since I read this series but I remember it being one of the best vampire series that I've ever read. I need to give it another look to see if I still feel that way after all these years. A definite cure for the Twilight &quot;sparkly vampire&quot; syndrome. ]]></body>
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    <review id="47293381">
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  <date_updated>Mon Feb 23 14:36:59 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of those trilogies that I love. I re-read it at least every other year. Some of my friends don't quite understand why I love it so much. It must be an acquired taste I guess.]]></body>
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    <review id="70926547">
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    <name><![CDATA[Saylaveev]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Classic vampire story, although this vampire kills others of her kind. Its gory, sexy, power tripping female in leather. I don't re-read this series often but always enjoy it when I do.]]></body>
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    <review id="65764370">
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[great new look at the creation of the vampire. A bit tough to read in some parts ( content wise) yet extremly interesting.]]></body>
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    <review id="29328235">
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    <body><![CDATA[Sonja Blue is the original punk vampire story that has never been equaled.  Where some stories, hit at the beast lurking to pounce, Nancy Collins puts you right there with a young woman learning to live with the monster she has become.<br/><br/>She's a tangible character that tries hard to make some...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29328235">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48168139">
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    <name><![CDATA[Zevon]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the best vampire/splatterpunk series out there. Definitely worth a read!]]></body>
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    <review id="45628155">
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    <body><![CDATA[Nancy Collins is a fabulous author and while she does not write as often as this reader would like, her books are absolutely amazing. This particular book is obviously a collection of several of her previous books. While I loved this book from cover to cover (and have read it at least 20 times), it ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45628155">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40481798">
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    <body><![CDATA[How much I love this is one of my dirty secrets ]]></body>
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    <review id="5582849">
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    <name><![CDATA[Cindy]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was mesmerized into reading yet another vampire/vampire slayer story. It must be that bat flitting around the balcony. Sonja Blue is a cranky punky nasty girl vampire, out to crack some nightmare skulls. Lots of fetishy scenes, but a bit too violent for my taste. The oppressiveness of the idea tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5582849">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39048215">
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    <body><![CDATA[I've decided to be a rebel and read a vampire book that doesn't start with Twi and end with Light, isn't a romance, and involves twisted televangelists and spectacular eighties references.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="11952997">
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    <body><![CDATA[Midnight Blue collects the first three of the Sonja Blue vampire stories/novels by Nancy Collins. While I wasn't too fond of the last story, the first two, SUNGLASSES AFTER DARK and IN THE BLOOD were quite wonderful and bloody reads. If you really liked the first few of the Anita Blake novels (but n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11952997">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought this book was interesting if your a fan of true blood its almost like that in a lot of ways. I can tell you once you pick it up your never going to want to put it down. I thought it was a cool twist that she wasnt fully a vampire and how she slayed other vamps. SO i defffinetly give this b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63118797">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is 3 in one, and I've only read the first, Sunglasses After Dark. It's the story of Sonja Blue, vampire/vampire hunter.  Interesting history of vampires, the Pretenders, but a bit dull at times. It was more Sonja's history which was sort of interesting, but there wasn't as much plot. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've finished the two 'novella's that make up the book and .. it's ok.  There's nothing particularly wrong about the stories, but there's not a particular spark to them either.  I can't say I'm sure that I'll even finish the third story at this point.]]></body>
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