I absolutely loved this book, and of course while I’m reading it, I kept wondering why wasn’t it more popular when it was written back in 1991. So I went to Amazon and checked out some other reviews and read comments.

I found this:
This book won't be staying in my house, and nor will I be reading anything else by Nancy Baker. I like vampire romances, but this certainly doesn't qualify.

I was like, okay, so people want fluffy romance vampire books. I’m not real crazy about those myself, but to each More...

This is a haunting, well written book that no vampire fan should miss. Ardeth Alexander is an average graduate student living an average, structured, somewhat boring life. One morning while exercising she is abducted, blindfolded and finds herself thrown into a cell in a former sanitarium. As if this isn't enough of a shock she realizes the cell next to her is also occupied, and the inhabitant isn't human. Ardeth soon discovers she is there to *feed* the vampire until her usefulness runs out. Ar More...

I read this book many years ago, and recently I found my self wanting to reread it. I know that it had many bad reviews when it was published, but I don't think that such books were in fashion back then. It was not the best I have read, but still very good. Though I must say that the description "erotic thriller" is not accurate, since the plot is not very erotic. Normally I read vampire books with more action and more gore, which I enjoy very much, but this is one of the few love based thriller More...

If I could write a vampire book, that is have the talent and the will to commit into writing a near 300 page book of fiction, it would wish to be this book.

As it turns out it is horror the way vampire books are supposed to be with a self-awareness and self-exploration that is tragic, intimidating and uncomfortable at the same time.

(view spoiler)[Ardeth Alexander leads a boring intellectual life but that is irrelevant. Dimitri Rozokov is a 400 year old vampire aristocrat but that is also irrelevant. They are f (hide spoiler)] More...

Very good as a read alike to Sunshine by Robin McKinley. Woman gets captured by baddies and kept as prisoner to feed a vampire, deciding she must side with the vampire to defeat the baddies. Very similar beginnings, very similar feel to the books, but very different books. Ardeth goes through a journey of self discovery, it had a very similar feel to many YA books about discovering who you are against the backdrop of a sister with a stronger personality.

I would have liked more of the romance, bu More...

Could very well be my favorite vampire book ever and that is saying a lot because I am a vampire connoisseur.
This book really should be more well known than it is.
(It's also been published as "Kiss of the Vampire"


From Publishers Weekly
"While taking an early-morning walk through the streets of contemporary Toronto, graduate student Ardeth Alexander is abducted by two men and taken to an isolated building, where she discovers to her horror that she has been brought to supply blood to an imprison More...

Ardeth Alexander is out jogging when she is kidnapped and imprisoned. She is horrified to find that she is to be fed to a vampire who has also been captured and is being used for nefarious purposes by his captors. They must team up to escape their captors.
This is an underappreciated book from the early 1990's that spawned one sequel, Blood and Chrysanthemums. Baker tries to get inside the mind of her characters to find out what being a vampire does and feels like to the individual.

Baker is one of the few authors I have seen that actually examines the change that being a vampire would cause in a person. This is a wonderful book. Ardeth is wonderfully drawn character, and Baker makes the transition real. Ardeth changes after she dies. No, she doesn't just get powers, but the death does something to her. Baker does examine this issue, and that look makes the book stand out.

This book was given to me at one of my first visits to a gothic meeting back in 1993, it was the book choice that they were reading that month... Now I run my own group, in my hometown with a bookclub as part of it, I still pass on the details of this book to new members... It is a well written and a great shame that there are only two books with these characters in...

A graduate student, Ardeth Alexander, gets kidnapped by snuff film makers. They have also captured a vampire, which they use in their films, and she is to be his dinner. Imprisoned in adjoining cells, Ardeth gets to know the vampire, Dimitri, and realizes that he is a civilized man forced into servitude, not a monster. To escape from the truly monstrous, her human captors, Ardeth's one chance at freedom is to have Dimitri turn her into a vampire.
The book explores Ardeth's changing perceptions, a More...

Read this vampire book in High School and most memorable to-date. I had to search my old town's catalog to find the name by year to find it. Best sex scene ever. I have never been a fan of Rice or Hamilton but this is a good novel written by a woman.

I really found this a good angle for vampire fiction. Unfortunately although I was able to borrow the sequel from the library I'm still looking for my own copy.

Oh my goodness I read this book along time ago maybe a little while after it came out. I really liked it. Good vampire book no baby shit like twilight.

This one is hard to describe. It mixes vampire lore with modern technology and things like AIDS. It's a very interesting read.

This one starts our great but seemed to be divided into what is almost two separate stories. About halfway through I began to lose interest.

Frankly, I found this book so tediously boring, I put it down 3/4 of the way through. The plot was interesting at first, and even in the middle of the novel, there were some page turning events -- but then the writing would become trite, the plot would screech to a halt, and I would yawn. Baker is not Anne Rice -- and maybe I am more of an Anne Rice type of vampire gal.

I just could not finish the. So, instead, I flipped through the pages, figured out what was going on, and read the ending. I d More...

OMG! Took me long enough to get this book, after reading the sequel, I needed to get this one. I was not let down. I really got to understand how Ardeth became the vampire that she was in the second book and that there was a little more history on Dimitri. I couldn't believe the things that Ardeth was put through and same with Dimitri. There was a lot of emotions that ran strongly through this book and I really think people should pick up these books, even though they're out of print, it's not t More...

Ardeth Alexander meets vamp Rozokov-both prisoners-she lets him feed on her

Library? looked up The night inside : a vampire thriller / Nancy Baker

A vampire awakes after 100 years in modern Toronto. Captures a woman.
And, the usual erotic mess ensues.

My copy is titled "The Night Inside"

*note to self.copy from Al.

The Night Inside is that rare vampire book that's actually - gasp - well written. I was drawn in by the unusual plot device and impressed by Baker's manipulation of words into things of beauty. Would that more vampire novels were so well written...

Kiss of the vampire is one of my favourite vampire stories. It brings suspense like a good crime story and also has its romantic moments, but not overly so. And, of course, the vampires are not really the bad guys ;)

My copy is called "The Night Inside", but it's the same book.

It is kin of dark, but it is a vampire novel so...