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A Field Guide to Vampires: Annotated by Lucy Hamilton (Drake Chronicles #4.5)
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Alyxandra Harvey (Goodreads Author)
Every new recruit to the Helios-Ra Society is issued this guidebook, with secrets to the inner workings of the League the vampires they are hunting. But when new recruit Lucy Hamilton gets her hands on a copy, she can’t contain her inner snark-especially because she has first-hand knowledge of the various vampire societies that sometimes contradicts the conventional wisdom...more
Kindle Edition, 98 pages
Published
April 16th 2012
by Walker Childrens
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Alyxandra Harvey has recently written several novellas to go along with her Drake Chronicles series, they are all quick reads and available for a reasonable price via Amazon for the kindle. If you don't have a kindle there are options to read the story on your computer or through various apps for other devices.
A Field Guide to Vampires: Annotated by Lucy Hamilton is the guidebook given to all new members of the Helios-Ra but with added snarky comments from Lucy. It does contain minor spoilers f...more
A Field Guide to Vampires: Annotated by Lucy Hamilton is the guidebook given to all new members of the Helios-Ra but with added snarky comments from Lucy. It does contain minor spoilers f...more
Another amazing e-novella by Alyxandra Harvey. Wether it's physical books or e-novellas, she always manages to write delightful page turners.
This one is Lucy's guidebook, which every new recruit at the Helior-Ra gets. Of course Lucy can't help herself and writes notes on some pages of what she really thinks. And isn't that how we know Lucy and why we love her?
I really liked this guidebook because not only we get more information about anything from the Drakes world, it's also hilarious with Lucy...more
This one is Lucy's guidebook, which every new recruit at the Helior-Ra gets. Of course Lucy can't help herself and writes notes on some pages of what she really thinks. And isn't that how we know Lucy and why we love her?
I really liked this guidebook because not only we get more information about anything from the Drakes world, it's also hilarious with Lucy...more
First and foremost -- Lucy, I love you, and your snark.
Most of this we knew, but it was fun to see it all put together like a text book. My own Drake version of the Harry Potter texts. Color me happily reading through this, pouring over all the details grinning like a little kid, at my favorite series, even through the blatant bias of the 'text book writers.'
Most of this we knew, but it was fun to see it all put together like a text book. My own Drake version of the Harry Potter texts. Color me happily reading through this, pouring over all the details grinning like a little kid, at my favorite series, even through the blatant bias of the 'text book writers.'
Feb 05, 2013
Erika
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review of another edition
Shelves:
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fantasy,
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wtf-did-i-just-read
It was an okay attempt at a textbook, but the "quirky" annotations were sparse and not that quirky. Then the rest of the book was previews of the author's work, where her writing seemed stronger, but since they were excerpts, I just skimmed them.
Not what I thought it would be.
Not what I thought it would be.
Covered a lot of stuff we already learned from the books but there were also some new bits thrown in-which was cool-and Lucy's comments were funny! I loved it in Hearts at Stake when she stole a field guide from Kieran! Yes, that led to some great scenes...*grins*
I wish there had been MORE of this. I loved what was there though. An insight into Lucy's class schedule was appreciated! And I liked reading her little annotations through out the field guide. I'm just greedy even with my novellas and wanted more! :)
Meh. After all of Lucy's references to this manual's silly fallacies, I thought there would be at least one, but no. This is a straight-up text book, and Lucy's occasional wry comments are no where near enough to save it.
I wanted to read this for Lucy's snark and it really wasn't here so I'll just wait for Blood Moon instead.
Not bad if you have 99 cents to spare. Its very short but if you like vampire lore or a refresher on the world of the drakes its worth it. I wish it was longer and had more commentary from Lucy.
I am only going to give this 3 stars for 3 reasons.
1. Way to short......
2. Lucy only commented on half of it, if even that
3. This should be read after book 4, that being said I did not need a refresher on the books 1-4 (the refresher being the back of each one of those books)
I did like the new info though and of course Lucy's take on things.
1. Way to short......
2. Lucy only commented on half of it, if even that
3. This should be read after book 4, that being said I did not need a refresher on the books 1-4 (the refresher being the back of each one of those books)
I did like the new info though and of course Lucy's take on things.
An interesting inside look into the mind of the Helios-Ra Society. I love reading this little novellas about the Drake Chronicles, it help having to wait so long for the next book to come out. Plus Lucy just makes everything just a little more funier with her comments.
Bookaday 62. Lucy's textbook for the Helios-Ra academy, love her usual fun, snarky comments. More Drake Chronicles please!!!
Only about thirty pages of new content. Over half was summaries of the books so far and excerpt from the first book.
Not my favorite Drake Chronicles novella but still a nice little addition to the Drake Chronicles world.
I had hopes for this to being a bookful of Lucy-esque commentary and hilarious facts and antidotes..
There was that.. but not as much as I hopes.. and there was a couple of passages I didn't think could go by Lucy without a snarky comment.
I found Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.. fare more hilarious and entertaining.
That being said.
It was mildly OK.
There was that.. but not as much as I hopes.. and there was a couple of passages I didn't think could go by Lucy without a snarky comment.
I found Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.. fare more hilarious and entertaining.
That being said.
It was mildly OK.
This is a good thing to have to refer back to in case you forget who's who in the books. It highlights all the important information and key players. It's not really worthy of any ratings since its not really a story...it's just a nice, handy guide to keep around.
I love Lucy! That was like the only reason I read this book. Even though it was kind of short again!
The annotations could have been more but I liked it nonetheless! :)
Lucy is awesome. she cracks me up.
May 20, 2013
Nicola Bolderston
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Shirley Fernandez
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Laura
marked it as tbr-kindle
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Alyxandra Harvey lives in a stone Victorian house in Ontario, Canada with a few resident ghosts who are allowed to stay as long they keep company manners. She loves medieval dresses, used to be able to recite all of The Lady of Shalott by Tennyson, and has been accused, more than once, of being born in the wrong century. She believes this to be mostly true except for the fac...more
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Alyxandra Harvey lives in a stone Victorian house in Ontario, Canada with a few resident ghosts who are allowed to stay as long they keep company manners. She loves medieval dresses, used to be able to recite all of The Lady of Shalott by Tennyson, and has been accused, more than once, of being born in the wrong century. She believes this to be mostly true except for the fac...more
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