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Carpathia

by Matt Forbeck (Goodreads Author)

3.14 of 5 stars 3.14 · rating details · 198 ratings · 64 reviews

It's Titanic meets 30 Days of Night.

When the survivors of the Titanic are picked up by the passenger steamship Carpathia, they thought their problems were over.

But something’s sleeping in the darkest recesses of the ship. Something old. Something hungry.

The lucky ones wished they’d gone down with the ship.

ebook, 416 pages

Published February 28th 2012 by Angry Robot

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Apr 10, 2013 Marty rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Really? Vampires on the Titanic and the Carpathia? Okay, I really thought that, when I read the back cover, this could be interesting horror story - before I knew it was a vampire tale/alternative history. It turned out to be dull and predictable and campy. Fortunately, it was a very fast read.

Plot: When the Titanic sinks and the Carpathia comes to the rescue, neither ship's crew knows it's carrying more than human passengers. Turns out that the head vampire, Drushko, is the secret owner of both...more Really? Vampires on the Titanic and the Carpathia? Okay, I really thought that, when I read the back cover, this could be interesting horror story - before I knew it was a vampire tale/alternative history. It turned out to be dull and predictable and campy. Fortunately, it was a very fast read.

Plot: When the Titanic sinks and the Carpathia comes to the rescue, neither ship's crew knows it's carrying more than human passengers. Turns out that the head vampire, Drushko, is the secret owner of both shipping lines. He's using the ships to transport his coven of vampires back to the Old Country after nearly being discovered by the human populace of New York. Meanwhile, Abe Holmword, Lucy Seward and Quinn Harker (those last names should ring a bell if you're a classic horror fan), three friends, survive the Titanic sinking only to end up with their lives threatened again on the Carpathia.

The characters are basically 21st century individuals dressed up as those from an earlier time. The language doesn't sound 1912, no one acts like they're from 1912, which is a huge black mark in my book. Worse yet, there's a direct tie to Bram Stoker's "Dracula" with the three main characters. Of course they're the only three people who find the vampires, of course they're the three who fight with them, of course they're the only three to survive. And of course one of them ends up as a vampire. The part about Rostron blowing up the ship to save the world was completely unbelievable too - it seemed tacked on at the last minute.

The whole mess ends up being just a little too much in the 'I saw that coming' department and not enough in the horror/surprise department. This book received a lot of rave reviews. I really can't see why, myself. I've read children's ghost stories that stood my hair on end much more than this did. I'm not saying that Forbeck's a bad writer. I'm saying this is a forgettable piece of fiction. However, if you like fast reading vampire stories and don't care anything about historical realism or real horror, you might like this novel just fine. Anyone who prefers something that shows attention to detail and really scares you, stick with Stoker, Le Fanu and some of the better 20th century vampire tales. (less)

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Mar 20, 2012 Bob Milne rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: vampires

THE FACTS: The Titanic struck an iceberg late on the night of April 14, 1912. The unsinkable ship actually sank rather quickly, taking only about 3 hours to send more than 1,500 passengers and crew to a cold, watery grave. While the Carpathia did come to its rescue, picking up over 700 survivors from the lifeboats, they didn't arrive until almost 2 hours after the Titanic slipped beneath the waves.

THE FICTION: No significant departure from the facts, except for the fact that Carpathia does recei...more THE FACTS: The Titanic struck an iceberg late on the night of April 14, 1912. The unsinkable ship actually sank rather quickly, taking only about 3 hours to send more than 1,500 passengers and crew to a cold, watery grave. While the Carpathia did come to its rescue, picking up over 700 survivors from the lifeboats, they didn't arrive until almost 2 hours after the Titanic slipped beneath the waves.

THE FICTION: No significant departure from the facts, except for the fact that Carpathia does receive the distress call directly from Titanic, rather than the much later relay message from Newfoundland, and are able to arrive a bit more quickly. Oh, yeah, and there are vampires on board. Kind of important, that little detail.

Matt Forbeck's Carpathia wasn't quite what I was expecting, which is both good and bad. On the positive side, he wastes no time in getting to the iceberg, and does an amazing job detailing the actual sinking of Titanic. Some readers may feel the sinking is drawn out a bit too long, but I thought the pacing was perfect, really allowing him to create some tension and establish the all-too-real horrors the survivors were forced to endure. Having the characters spend so much time in the water also allows for the supernatural horror to make an early appearance, with a small group of vampires slipping out of Carpathia's hold to menace the survivors, a la Peter Benchley's Jaws. In reality, I doubt the survivors would have really been worried about sharks in the frigid waters of the North Atlantic, but it's a fun scene that works well, so I'm willing to ignore the discrepancy.

It's once we get on board Carpathia that the story crashed headlong into my expectations, the pace slowed, and things began to flounder a bit. Instead of capitalizing on the claustrophobic confines of a ship and the sense of isolation at sea, allowing the overpowering scent of blood and death in the air to inflame the hunger and lust of the stowaways, Forbeck seems content to fill space with a little mystery and romance. That's not to say the mystery angle doesn't work - it does, and quite well - but I really wanted to see some carnage, with battles and bodies strewn throughout the ship. As for the romance, I had a harder time swallowing it than I did anything supernatural, but as awkward as the love triangle is, it does set up a rather satisfying conclusion a lot further on.

There is, of course, a somewhat forced connection to the Dracula mythos here, and I'm not entirely sure how I feel about it. Forbeck drops some rather suggestive names on us early on in Quin Harker, Abe Holmword and Lucy Seward, but takes far too long to clarify their connection to the Harker, Holmwood, and Seward we know so well, confusing rather than intriguing the reader. He eventually does make the connection, alluding to the fact that Bram's novel was more fact than fiction, but he fails to establish any sort of link between the vampires of Dracula and those of Carpathia. While I'm glad he didn't use the tired old son/daughter/sire of Dracula angle that has been used in so many pseudo-sequels, you can't just make the connection and then let it hang there, with no resolution.

The last part of the story certainly offers up some surprises, especially following the discovery of the vampires' lair deep within the cargo hold, and Forbeck finally offers us some of the carnage we were waiting for. After such a long lull, a lot of significant activity happens very quickly, and there's a 'twist' to the love triangle that I definitely saw coming for a while, but it all makes for a satisfying conclusion. One final note, I have to give him full credit for sticking so well to the conventions, language, and dialogue of the Victorian era - it really does feel like and 'old' story, and there are no jarring incongruities to remind you that it's not.

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Mar 10, 2013 William M. rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: horror, drama

4 AND 1/2 STARS

I picked this book up because of the cool concept of vampires out on the ocean during the Titanic disaster. What a strange place for a vampire story, but author Matt Forbeck pulls it off brilliantly. Carpathia reads like a classic and the characters are so likeable that you find yourself rooting for their survival throughout each dangerous chapter.

Author Forbeck writes with a very smooth prose, writing dialogue that feels very much like it must have been in 1912. I felt completel...more

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May 30, 2012 Chelsea rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: adult, horror, historical, supernatural

It took nothing more than the words titanic and vampires to get me interested. An awesome idea am I right? And Matt Forbeck pulled it off for the most part. The first half of the book was phenomenal but it slightly lost steam in the last hundred or pages or so.

Basically its about two men torn between one girl. Both are in love with this girl and when titanic goes down, Quin who has kept his feelings a secret resolves to tell Lucy if he sees her again. Little do they know that on the ship Carpat...more

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Mar 14, 2012 Chris Bauer rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I won a copy of this book in the "Crossing the Streams" contest sponsored by authors like Ari Marmel, Matt Forbeck and about a dozen others.

I really enjoyed reading this work. There were a few typos and one or two sentences which had me scratching my head, but really a fantastic novel.

I won't ruin the book by providing a "spoiler" synopsis, but the back of the book pretty much sums it up. "Lucky" survivors of the Titanic are plucked from the cold waters by another vessel, the Carpathia. By the e...more

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Feb 15, 2012 Bane of Kings rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: historical-fiction, angry-robot, 2012-releases-read, notable-2012-releases

Original Post: http://thefoundingfields.com/2012/02/...

I don’t read that much horror, despite the fact that I probably should. I believe the last horror novel that I read was The Concrete Grove by Gary McMahon. So, I was delighted when I found that a copy of Carpathia by Matt Forbeck arrived at my doorstep a couple of days before Christmas. And to be honest, I don’t really know why I put this off that long.

I think we all know about the story of the Titanic, the famous unsinkable ship that hits a...more

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May 12, 2012 Mia Darien rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I bought this book after reading the back cover and checking the over-all rating of it here on GoodReads, so I didn't know who the characters were until I started reading it. And despite being the avid lover of "Dracula" that I am, I couldn't say I was pleased. It feels a little like a cop-out on the vampire stuff.

This was a fun premise, so to speak. I liked that part, but once I discovered the nature of the characters, it stopped feeling original. While I'm pleased that nothing was written abou...more

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Mar 08, 2012 Tony rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I’d like to say that this is an unbiased review, but I can’t. I’m an unabashed Forbeck fan. I have been for years. The Bloodbowl novels may not have been considered brilliant by a lot of people remain some of my favourite books.

This is a vampire story. Set on the titanic and the ship that rescued some of the survivors. Like that great book by Kim Newman this story takes the Bram Stoker story and says ‘What if?’ The Dracula links are slowly fed through until you can’t ignore them, but most reader...more I’d like to say that this is an unbiased review, but I can’t. I’m an unabashed Forbeck fan. I have been for years. The Bloodbowl novels may not have been considered brilliant by a lot of people remain some of my favourite books.

This is a vampire story. Set on the titanic and the ship that rescued some of the survivors. Like that great book by Kim Newman this story takes the Bram Stoker story and says ‘What if?’ The Dracula links are slowly fed through until you can’t ignore them, but most readers will get them pretty early on. This is quite rewarding and I felt I’d stumbled on to a secret. A lot of people die in this story, not nearly as many by drowning as I’d imagined when I started the book. In fact, as I’d not read the sleeve notes before starting the book I wasn’t even aware it was a vampire book. I just thought it was an alternate history Titanic story. I was pleasantly surprised.

I had to get my dictionary out at one point. The difference between foundering and floundering was something I was unfamiliar with. In short, ships founder and people flounder. The language and feel of the book had me feeling that I was actually in the early 20th century and the feeling of impending doom only helped to build tension. As usual Matt nailed the pace and I was dragged along at a frenetic pace. I stayed up until gone midnight to finish this book because I was so caught up in the story.

James Herbert would be proud of the attrition rate in this book. At the end there are very few people alive. I liked the ending. Although not usually a fan of any kind of happy or neat and tidy ending in this instance I think it worked nicely. It felt like a film ending where it just cuts straight to ‘THE END’ and Fades to Black (caps because I’m a Metallica fan at heart).

I feel that this could well be Matt’s best work to date, and it certainly has the chance to capture the imagination of a wide audience. It is easy to read, has violence and bloodshed that is vital to the story and not just to shock, and most importantly in my eyes it is a very hard book to put down. I loved it start to finish.(less)

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Jul 30, 2012 Andrea Santucci rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: horror, letture_2012, vampiri, pub_date_2012

Trama a grandi linee sennò non si capisce di cosa sto parlando: il Titanic affonda, i passeggeri vengono salvati dal Carpathia, il Carpathia sta trasportando dei vampiri, i vampiri sono affamati.

Non lo so. Sono combattuto.

Da una parte è un romanzo che si prende troppo sul serio. Tratta l'affondamento del Titanic come una tragedia - e, difatti, quello è stato -, ma poi tratta nello stesso modo l'attacco dei vampiri sul Carpathia. Non sono due eventi della stessa gravità, uno è storia, l'altro è f...more Trama a grandi linee sennò non si capisce di cosa sto parlando: il Titanic affonda, i passeggeri vengono salvati dal Carpathia, il Carpathia sta trasportando dei vampiri, i vampiri sono affamati.

Non lo so. Sono combattuto.

Da una parte è un romanzo che si prende troppo sul serio. Tratta l'affondamento del Titanic come una tragedia - e, difatti, quello è stato -, ma poi tratta nello stesso modo l'attacco dei vampiri sul Carpathia. Non sono due eventi della stessa gravità, uno è storia, l'altro è fantasia, non si può. D'altra parte, però, è vero che è richiesto un minimo di serietà quando si tratta, nel bene o nel male, di una tragedia storica come l'affondamento del Titanic, e dividere il libro in una prima parte "seriosa" a bordo del Titanic e in una "cazzona" a bordo del Carpathia sarebbe forse stato di cattivo gusto. Insomma, è un libro che parla di una delle più grandi tragedie della storia moderna ma lo fa rileggendola in chiave horror, e forse avrebbe potuto assumersi qualche rischio in più.

Poi ci sono i protagonisti. Sono detestabili, tutti e tre. Lucy è la classica strong and independent woman who needs no man, totalmente anacronistica persino per una che, ci viene detto, è una suffragetta; Quin è un maschio beta, e quindi mi viene veramente difficile simpatizzare per lui; Abe non si capisce da che parte tiri, dice una cosa, poi fa l'esatto opposto, e ogni tre per due ci infila in gola la sua bromance con Quin. Insomma, i protagonisti sono bocciati. Così come lo è lo pseuditriangolo amoroso, prevedibile e, in ultima analisi, suprefluo. D'altra parte, però, i vampiri sono veramente fighi, e fanno tutte quelle cose che uno si aspetta che i vampiri facessero prima che la Meyer e lo stuolo di bimbeminkia scrittevoli che l'hanno seguita li demascolinizzassero.

In buona sostanza Carpathia è la versione letteraria di un b-movie. C'è della goffaggine narrativa, e i protagonisti non sono il massimo, ma si fa leggere e, ogni tanto, si incrocia qualche scena splatter che risolleva una narrazione altrimenti piatta e poco ispirata. (less)

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Mar 27, 2012 Rimma rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I received the book for free through Goodreads First Read

Well, it is horror category book and I did like it.
The book is full of actions. As three friends take aboard famous Titanic, they all looking forward to an exciting future new school and job in America. However find themself alongside small group of survivors on board of Carpathian. While horror of the lost people from Titanic is still on their shoulder they just in the beginning of our story.
The captain change its course to take saved pa...more

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Feb 12, 2012 Stephanie Parody rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: first-reads

This book is very much Titanic meets Dracula. You get to live through the horrors of being on board the Titanic when it sinks. Then once you are rescued you have to live through other horrors that are just as horrific if not worse than the Titanic sinking. You get wrapped up in this story line where the end of each chapter leaves you wondering what is going to happen next. I really like how different chapters are done through different characters perspectives rather than you only seeing everythi...more

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Mar 16, 2012 Michael rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-2012, michael-s-favorites

April 1912. Childhood friends Quincey Harker, Abe Holmwood, and Lucy Seward are leaving England aboard the Titanic and steaming their way to America, where Quincey has accepted a job as a solicitor at a New York law firm and Lucy is attending college in Boston after she and Abe, her suitor, travel the country. But fate, in the form of an iceberg, intervenes and Quincey, Abe, and Lucy find themselves fighting for their lives in the cold North Atlantic.
Soon, the passenger ship Carpathia arrives...more

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Feb 25, 2012 Vicky rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: first-reads, créatures-et-cie

It was a free giveaway from Goodreads. It's a good 3.5 rating for sure, it might have been a little more (4) if I hadn't been bothered by mistakes. Since It is a First-Reads giveaway, an advance proof, I'm hoping they will have corrected the mistakes before the official copy is out.

I definitely enjoyed it. It was a page turner, I read two thirds of it today. The small chapters, 5 or 6 pages making it easy to convince myself to read just one more chapter, until I reached the end. It a fast read,...more It was a free giveaway from Goodreads. It's a good 3.5 rating for sure, it might have been a little more (4) if I hadn't been bothered by mistakes. Since It is a First-Reads giveaway, an advance proof, I'm hoping they will have corrected the mistakes before the official copy is out.

I definitely enjoyed it. It was a page turner, I read two thirds of it today. The small chapters, 5 or 6 pages making it easy to convince myself to read just one more chapter, until I reached the end. It a fast read, no unwanted lenght, the pace is fast, the action almost always present. It was fun, the play on the names, the "old style vampire lore" (which has been out of style for a while in favor of urban fantasy settings) but that I was delighted to see put to good use by a skillfull hand again. I was immediately captivated by the characters, there's not too many of them so the reader doesn't have difficulty telling them appart, yet there's enough of them to create diversity, to give the impression that there's a complete universe in that novel. With a few strokes of the pen, characters achieve distinctiveness. Descriptions are minimal, yet so well targeted that they achieve much in very little sentences. I can help but think that this story would do well in another, more visual medium as well, it would take little work to adapt it. It's got a love triangle, trouble within the pack with the alpha vamp being challenged, well the story is complex enough to keep anyone entertained.

What I really liked is the mood of the novel, I've read multiple vampire novels, including the classics, I've watched numerous vampire movies and still have a fascination for Christopher Lee. I love the vampire creature to be some kind of monster, I've enjoyed the romantic, existential, sexual, etc. side of them but the attraction to the vampire, for me, remains that it is a monster that is so close to being human...

So yes, it would probably had been a four rating in it's style had I not been bothered by some mistakes, had I bought the copy I would have been annoyed, since it is an advance proof I tend to be more forgiving and I'm hoping they get to review the text again before printing the final editions. I found it hard to get back in the story after reading things like this:

"Each of them had a crucifix in their luggage, something their parents had insisted they bring along on their journey with them..."
The problem is that, at this point in the book, their luggage are at the bottom of the ocean, even their clothes were given to them by other passengers of the rescuing ship, Carpathia. Sometimes it's the details that are important and this kind of mistakes takes credibility away from the story.

The further we get into the novel, the mistakes multiply. At one point (page 204) the names of the characters are wrong, while Abe is lying on a hospital bed, and Quin is with Lucy searching the boat, the narrator says that "Abe permitted himself a soft smile" while the reader knows very well that it's Quin we're talking about, not Abe.
It's not a well oiled story yet because of those mistakes but it is still immensely enjoyable.(less)

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Apr 11, 2012 Courtney rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The cover caught my eye and after reading the summary----Titanic survivors and vampires?---Pfft, I'm in.
The book starts off with the iceberg of course, then following our 3 main characters through their night in the icy Atlantic. Each chapter was pretty short and alternated between our three heroes and the two main vampires. I'm glad Forbeck did it this way, because you get to explore each person/vampire's perspective as events unfold.
Thankfully the end was satisfying and the love triangle wasn'...more

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Feb 15, 2012 Abhinav rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: angry-robot, thriller, horror

Shadowhawk reviews Matt Forbeck’s next novel for Angry Robot Books, a part-romance, part-fantasy novel about the Titanic and vampires.

“If you thought that the sinking of the Titanic was the only disaster that night then think again for the truly scary vampires are now back on the scene.” ~ The Founding Fields

People who know me through the Bolthole and elsewhere know that for the last few years my reading has almost exclusively consisted of Black Library fiction. While that may sound fantastic at...more

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Apr 13, 2013 Timothy Binga rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A friend lent this to me because he knows of my knowledge of the Titanic and because I read some of the Anita Blake series. While the concept seemed interesting, it wasn't realized here. The writing had it's moments, both good and bad, it did not capture me like I thought it would. Also, there were too many historical inaccuracies which were very easy to check on and were just ignored. I also thought the author would try to start from a historically accurate frame, move to the "suspension of bel...more

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Feb 27, 2013 Lisa rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, horror, thriller, vampires, reviewed

2½ stars.

I was excited to read this because it claimed to be Titanic meets 30 Days of Night, the latter of which I am a huge fan of. In actuality, it's more like Titanic meets Bram Stoker and Dracula, which isn't necessarily bad; it just wasn't what I was expecting or hoping it to be.

The book doesn't have a huge plot to speak of, and I found the first 150 pages slow, which meant I lost concentration and attention, which meant I sometimes had to go back and re-read sections. The action and suspen...more

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Mar 02, 2013 Kim (Bookishly Me) rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: horror, vampires

After the Titanic hits the iceberg you think the survivors have left the worst part behind them, being rescues by the Carpthia, but there is something lurking in the shadows of the Carpathia and it is getting tired of hiding.

I really enjoyed reading Carpathia. It is a fast pasted read and I kept flipping the pages to see what would happen next. The vampires in this book are old school aka dangerous. They left the new country because they got careless and survival has always been keeping to thems...more

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May 02, 2012 Ben Babcock rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: ebook, 2012-read, alternate-history, fantasy, historical-fiction, vampires

With its hundredth anniversary just last month, Titanic was all over the media, much to my dad’s chagrin. He doesn’t understand why everyone seems so fascinated by Titanic (the ship or the James Cameron movie). I personally don’t care much for the movie, but I can see why the ship has captured so many imaginations. It was a huge testament to human ingenuity—and hubris. Its sinking was a monumental event in the early twentieth century. Not only was the loss of life considerable—and perhaps preven...more

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Jul 03, 2012 Timothy Ward rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: horror

Matt really pulls the reader in from the start, and for me, propelled this book to the top of my reading list just from reading the first few pages. You have a fun lovers' triangle going on between three humans on the Titanic. Quin and Abe are best friends. Abe is engaged to Lucy, but Quin is in love with Lucy. I really like these three, and it was a lot of fun reading their banter and waiting to find out if Quin would tell Lucy about his feelings for her. This may be an alternate history about...more

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Aug 31, 2012 Michelle rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book was an impulse buy, the premise of something old and something hungry in the bowels of the Carpathia sounded like a promising concept. I also loved the tag line - the lucky ones went down with the Titanic. Like a film whose best bits are shown in the trailer, for me, this book didn't really deliver. Despite being a huge fan of Dracula, vampires don't really appeal to me. I was hoping that the evil facing the poor long-suffering Titanic survivors would be something more like that found...more

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Feb 22, 2012 Lauren Smith rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: vampires, horror, angry-robot, arc-review-copy, to-review

The first thing I need to tell you is that the official Angry Robot blurb for this book is misleading. This is what it says:

When the desperate survivors of the Titanic were rescued from the icy waters of the North Atlantic by the passenger steamship Carpathia, they thought their problems were over.

But something was sleeping in the darkest recesses of the rescue ship. Something old. Something hungry.

The lucky ones wished they’d gone down with the ship.

Based on that blurb, I assumed the plot went...more

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Jun 25, 2012 Renae rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Rachelle DeMunck

Shelves: books-i-own, vampires

I wish I could give this 3.5 stars.

I absolutely LOVE the premise of this: Survivors of the sinking Titanic are rescued by the Carpathia only to discover it is overrun with vampires.

Excuse me while I *squee*.

Ok. That's done. This had a lovely strong beginning. Using the descendants of the original Stoker protagonists was quite clever.

But somewhere near the end, it just started to lose its punch. I was hoping for a far more diabolical resolution than what I got. Tied up a little too neatly, I...more

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Jul 18, 2012 Jess Faraday rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A great premise: The Titanic sinks. The Carpathia, steaming to the rescue, is infested with vampires. Adventure ensues. A romantic triangle takes things a little deeper, making it more than your average monster story. Clean prose keeps things moving. A few historical errors that closer research might have caught. A few vocabulary anachronisms that probably most people wouldn't care about. But a quick, enjoyable read all the same.

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Sep 19, 2012 Olga Levin rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: leisure-reading

Well what can I say? It's a very steampunkish paranormal historical science fiction novel of the sinking of the Titanic and to much of my surprise, the sinking of the Carpathia as well to save people's lives from the wrath of the vampires. We all know that eventually the Carpathia met the same fate the Titanuc did years later when it was torpedoed. It was interesting to read about this only in a fictionalized manner of course. Tutanic history buffs who are looking for something that is factual b...more

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May 09, 2012 Kent rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A quick, fun read! Mr. Forbeck has a knack for creating interesting characters, with no extraneous back-story weighing them down (I wanted to see more of Dale). You have everything you need to enjoy the story you are reading, with relevant history popping up when needed. This is especially well done (and amusing) when our heroes reminisce about their childhood and "Uncle Bram's book."

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Feb 14, 2012 David Marshall rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is a first class historical horror novel as the Carpathia steams to the rescue of those pitched into the icy waters of the Atlantic. We all know the story of the Titanic. This is what happened to the survivors in the water, and after the lucky ones were rescued and began what they believed would be the journey to safety.

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Feb 01, 2012 Jared rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A wonderful What if...? alternate history involving vampires attacking the sinking Titanic. That pretty much sums up all you need to know, other than it is a completely wild, fun and gruesome romp. If you're looking for a light, fun vampire read you're going to love this book. Confidential to the author: please give Lucy her own spin-off!

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May 10, 2012 Kathy rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Fun take on vamps and the Titanic but problem with passenger on Titanic comparing length to Empire State Building which didn't exist until nearly 20 years later and obtaining item from luggage when the luggage would have been long gone with the Titanic. On the up side these definitively aren't "twinkie" vampires!

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Jul 06, 2012 Auden Johnson rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: modern-horror

So, I didn't know this was a vampire novel. The blurb on the back was vague and I hadn't heard about this book beforehand. If I'd known, I probably wouldn't have gotten it. I love vampire novels but I don't like stores where people are trapped somewhere with something killing them off.

Thankfully, this book wasn't like that. It was pretty good. It's been awhile since I've read a story where the vampires were the bad guys- an interesting experience. All the vampires, beside Dushko, got on my nerve...more

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