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Vaempires: A white Christmas: A prelude to the Evolutionary War (The Evolutionary War 0.5)
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Thomas Winship (Goodreads Author)
Paperback, 104 pages
Published
December 14th 2011
by Thomas Winship
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Jan 14, 2013
Heather Jensen
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Fans of Vampires books, Paranormal, and Fantasy
"Cassie squeezed his hand, keeping her head on his shoulder and forcing him to loosen up and continue dancing. The song played on. They danced like they were the only two people in the world. Daniel entertained thoughts of spiriting her off the dance floor and sneaking off to a seculuded location.
He jumped, startling Cassie, when a warm hand fell on his shoulder. The heat was unmistakable; the second thumb was unnerving.
He turned, coming face-to-face with the red-haired vaempire. "Are you tryin...more
He jumped, startling Cassie, when a warm hand fell on his shoulder. The heat was unmistakable; the second thumb was unnerving.
He turned, coming face-to-face with the red-haired vaempire. "Are you tryin...more
3.5 awesome stars!
Vaempires: A white Christmas is a prequel to the first book, Vaempires: Revolution. The story basically tells the reader what happen before the great war between the Vampires and the væmpires began. It goes into some much needed details to help explain to the reader about how and why Vampires turned to væmpires and what is being done to try to stop the mutation. As the book begins Daniel is wishing for a White Christmas as this is something that rarely happens. Yes, there is pl...more
Vaempires: A white Christmas is a prequel to the first book, Vaempires: Revolution. The story basically tells the reader what happen before the great war between the Vampires and the væmpires began. It goes into some much needed details to help explain to the reader about how and why Vampires turned to væmpires and what is being done to try to stop the mutation. As the book begins Daniel is wishing for a White Christmas as this is something that rarely happens. Yes, there is pl...more
MY REVIEW
To give the book its full title it is, Vaempires Christmas: White Christmas A Prelude To The Evolutionary War by Thomas Winship.
This book is a prelude to the larger, main book called Vaempires Revolution by Thomas Winship. I enjoyed this book, it allows you to get to know the characters that are also in the book Vaempires Revolution.I think you would say it sets the scene for what is about to happen. It gives you an idea of the possibilities of what may come.It is well written, in that...more
Review originally posted on http://theaussiezombie.blogspot.com
A prelude to Vaempires: Revolution (The Evolutionary Wars #1), Vaempires: A White Christmas tells the back-story of Daniel and Cassandra, and delves more deeply into the politics of the human/vampire/vaempire world, and the scientific community’s attempt to help the vaempires adapt to the human and vampire way of life.
As a prelude whilst I don’t recommend reading Vaempires: A White Christmas before Vaempires: Revolution, I do recomm...more
A prelude to Vaempires: Revolution (The Evolutionary Wars #1), Vaempires: A White Christmas tells the back-story of Daniel and Cassandra, and delves more deeply into the politics of the human/vampire/vaempire world, and the scientific community’s attempt to help the vaempires adapt to the human and vampire way of life.
As a prelude whilst I don’t recommend reading Vaempires: A White Christmas before Vaempires: Revolution, I do recomm...more
This prequel to Revolution sets up a lot of great character development, and also explains some of the tension in Revolution.
It's Christmas, and Daniel has accompanied his family and the Vampire royalty to a secluded location for a secret summit. But Daniel isn't thinking about politics: his mind is on the princess. Cassie has always been his best friend, but lately, Daniel has been wondering if they could ever be more. The political tension takes a backseat to hormones, but this book is still...more
It's Christmas, and Daniel has accompanied his family and the Vampire royalty to a secluded location for a secret summit. But Daniel isn't thinking about politics: his mind is on the princess. Cassie has always been his best friend, but lately, Daniel has been wondering if they could ever be more. The political tension takes a backseat to hormones, but this book is still...more
Originally Reviewed At: Mother/Gamer/Writer
Rating: 5 out of 5 Controllers
Review Source: Blog Tour
Reviewer: CrayolaKym
Chapter 1 right out of the door starts with Winship’s noteworthy hack and slash writing. ‘Daniel ducked, a breeze ruffling his brown hair as massive claws slashed overhead to decapitate the unfortunate sapling beside him.” Okay, so Daniel is actually felling a tree, but within moments he is towered over by a beast and fighting ensues.
This book is actually a prelude to the first tw...more
Rating: 5 out of 5 Controllers
Review Source: Blog Tour
Reviewer: CrayolaKym
Chapter 1 right out of the door starts with Winship’s noteworthy hack and slash writing. ‘Daniel ducked, a breeze ruffling his brown hair as massive claws slashed overhead to decapitate the unfortunate sapling beside him.” Okay, so Daniel is actually felling a tree, but within moments he is towered over by a beast and fighting ensues.
This book is actually a prelude to the first tw...more
Thank you Mr. Winship for giving me a copy to read :) This book is a prequel to Vaempires:Revolution. You get to meet Daniel, his family, Cassie, and her family, as they go one a Christmas vacation. It also introduces us to how the world is now working as this is literally a post apocalyptic world. This have happened, vampires live with humans, and are now mutating into Vaempires. You see the political side of things, but to me, this is mainly a sweet story to tell you how Daniel and Cassie feel...more
I really enjoyed this novella. It gives us an insight into the characters from Vaempires: Revolution and explores both the lovers and main characters of the primary book as well as the underlying tensions that fuel the primary conflict later on.
Winship has a talent for adorable or lighthearted scenes that made me chuckle. I was often laughing to myself or grinning while I read, just because it was cute or I could relate to Daniel's character.
Even though one of my favorite parts of Vaempires: R...more
Winship has a talent for adorable or lighthearted scenes that made me chuckle. I was often laughing to myself or grinning while I read, just because it was cute or I could relate to Daniel's character.
Even though one of my favorite parts of Vaempires: R...more
Vaempires White Christmas is a prelude to the book previously reviewed. It offfers an intimate peak into the more personal relationships of the characters that are about to be thrust into a battle for survival. We get to see love - of parents for children, young lovers, friends for friends, and creatures for survival. We see it played out in dramatic detail, yet are not overwhelmed by the complexity of it. Admit it, love is a complex thing and far too often it is over analyzed in a book. Not her...more
This was a great Prequel to start the series.
We learn about the three races that will be in the story- Humans, Vampires and Vaempires. There is a King and Queen that rules over both Vampire and Vaempire races. Whilst there is a President for the Human race. However, there appears to be a conflict between two groups, the Human/Vampires and the Vaempires. The Humans and Vampires have set up a meeting and the Vaempires crash it, as they believe they have been left out on purpose.
The story is bein...more
We learn about the three races that will be in the story- Humans, Vampires and Vaempires. There is a King and Queen that rules over both Vampire and Vaempire races. Whilst there is a President for the Human race. However, there appears to be a conflict between two groups, the Human/Vampires and the Vaempires. The Humans and Vampires have set up a meeting and the Vaempires crash it, as they believe they have been left out on purpose.
The story is bein...more
Vaempires: White Christmas jumps straight into the action as Daniel is doing his best to fend off a dangerous and life threatening attack, and a few pages further we discover who is attacking Daniel and it wasn't what I expected but I loved how thesuspensewas built up with no hint at what it was. After the attack Daniel makes his way home day dreaming about Christmas and one thing I truly love...snow....and more importantly, a white Christmas. Vaempires: White Christmas takes place before Vaempi...more
As always, Thomas Winship is an awesome writer. He managed to make me feel emotions I'd normally feel with a full-length novel, with barely a hundred pages.
Christmas is my favourite holiday, so I enjoyed this story even more. As you may know, this is the prequel to Vaempires Revolution, so I was able to understand certain events that happen in VR. I loved how he managed to combine the magic of Christmas with the serious politic situations that need to be issued.
Even though the theme is very st...more
Christmas is my favourite holiday, so I enjoyed this story even more. As you may know, this is the prequel to Vaempires Revolution, so I was able to understand certain events that happen in VR. I loved how he managed to combine the magic of Christmas with the serious politic situations that need to be issued.
Even though the theme is very st...more
Chapter 1 right out of the door starts with Winship's noteworthy hack and slash writing. 'Daniel ducked, a breeze ruffling his brown hair as massive claws slashed overhead to decapitate the unfortunate sapling beside him.” Okay, so Daniel is actually felling a tree, but within moments he is towered over by a beast and fighting ensues.
This book is actually a prelude to the first two books and gives you more details that were lacking in the storyline and you learn more about the characters and...more
Overview:
Daniel, Cassandra, and the Vaempires return for a prelude that explores the world of Vaempires: Revolution a little further. The premise is that months before the events of the first book in the series, the leaders of this imagined world must find a diplomatic solution to the decaying relations between Humans, Vampires and Vaempires--mostly the anger rising in the Vaempire race over the failure of science to find a synthetic substitute to Vampire blood (which they need for sustenance).
W...more
Daniel, Cassandra, and the Vaempires return for a prelude that explores the world of Vaempires: Revolution a little further. The premise is that months before the events of the first book in the series, the leaders of this imagined world must find a diplomatic solution to the decaying relations between Humans, Vampires and Vaempires--mostly the anger rising in the Vaempire race over the failure of science to find a synthetic substitute to Vampire blood (which they need for sustenance).
W...more
This review was originally posted on my blog, Darkest Sins.
This is a prelude for "Vaempires: Revolution", but it's supposed to be read after the first book. At first, I found that a little bit strange, but after doing as the author suggested, I totally saw the point of it. Who would watch Star Wars Episode I, II and III before having seen Episode IV, V and VI? I know the story would make perfectly sense if you'd watch it in that order, but still, let's be honest everyone, the greatest beauty of...more
This is a prelude for "Vaempires: Revolution", but it's supposed to be read after the first book. At first, I found that a little bit strange, but after doing as the author suggested, I totally saw the point of it. Who would watch Star Wars Episode I, II and III before having seen Episode IV, V and VI? I know the story would make perfectly sense if you'd watch it in that order, but still, let's be honest everyone, the greatest beauty of...more
While most Christmas stories warm us with goodwill and peace, Væmpires: White Christmas highlights the turmoil between the races of humans, vampires and the ever defiant væmpires. The second book in the Væmpire series is the prelude to the hostile takeover of the world by the væmpire race.
Christmas is near and all of the race’s hierarchies are vacationing together in the Northern Forest for a secret meeting. While the væmpire race does not have a leader – as they are still considered vampires –...more
Christmas is near and all of the race’s hierarchies are vacationing together in the Northern Forest for a secret meeting. While the væmpire race does not have a leader – as they are still considered vampires –...more
I was beyond lucky to have been given both Vaempires Revolution, and Vaempires: A White Christmas, to read by the author. This prequel was awesome!!! It allowed me to get to know, and feel the emotions of the main characters - Daniel and Cassie, and jump into their heads a bit. This prequel made me love their characters even more. It was wonderful to see exactly what happened prior to the Revolution, and watch how the love between Daniel and Cassie blossomed, and still...it left me wanting more!...more
This was a great backstory to Vaempires: Revolution. The love story captures you and doesn't let go til the very end.
Daniel and Cassie are young and trying to find their way in the world Winship has created. They are both expected to be very powerful when they mature, yet it seems their worlds are so far apart at the beginning of White Christmas.
The political backdrop adds to the tension between them. It seems the universe keeps causing problems for these two young vampires, but they fight thro...more
Daniel and Cassie are young and trying to find their way in the world Winship has created. They are both expected to be very powerful when they mature, yet it seems their worlds are so far apart at the beginning of White Christmas.
The political backdrop adds to the tension between them. It seems the universe keeps causing problems for these two young vampires, but they fight thro...more
Full Review at: What's Beyond Forks?
Væmpires: White Christmas brought you back before the war broke out and let you get to know Daniel and Cassie on a more personal level without them being in survival mode.
Væmpires: White Christmas brought you back before the war broke out and let you get to know Daniel and Cassie on a more personal level without them being in survival mode.
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Thomas Winship lives in New York. He currently serves as MBA Director for a private liberal arts college in southern New York, where he also teaches courses in English Composition, Communications, and Business. Prior to this, he spent fifteen years working for a global pharmaceutical company, specializing in organizational development, talent management, and training.
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