R. A. Nelson takes us on a supernatural thrill ride, a modern-day vampire story set on a NASA base and filled with space-and-science intrigue. Seve...
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Feb 07, 2012
Rebecca
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Seventeen year old Emma feels like her life is falling apart. Not only does she suffer from epilepsy, she was recently attacked by a vampire and was forced to flee from her family. An epileptic seizure interrupted her vampire transformation, but even though she does not drink blood and can stand to be out in the sunlight she does have many useful vampire powers and strengths. Unfortunately, she also has a permanent connection to the evil vampire that bit her. Emma knows that her only choice for
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Sep 16, 2011
Amy
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Yes, I know...some of you are already saying "Oh, great, another vampire book." BUT, this is and, I swear, completely different than those love triangle, white-faced hunk vs. tight ab werewolf people. This is actually a FANtastic story that adults will truly love.
Emma Cooper is our main character's name. When Emma was thirteen she ran away from home, trying desperately to outrun the curse that was trying to wipe her out. During her escape, Emma learned one very real th More...
Emma Cooper is our main character's name. When Emma was thirteen she ran away from home, trying desperately to outrun the curse that was trying to wipe her out. During her escape, Emma learned one very real th More...
Mar 24, 2011
Vicky
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Seventeen-year-old Emma has a curse. Her epilepsy…has cost her friends and derailed her dreams; she can’t even legally drive. The curse is ruining her life—until the night it saves her. Emma wakes up in a hospital, weak from blood loss…she pieces together a brutal attack by a…monster—a vampire named Wirtz. His feeding was cut short by Emma’s grand mal seizure, enabling her to escape, but the curse did more than save her. Now Emma has all the…powers of a vampire, without the need to drink blood o
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Mar 02, 2011
Paula
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Yet again, another vampire novel with good vampires and bad vampires. Emma plays soccer, has a bad temper, and suffers from epilepsy. After a soccer game during which she lost her temper, injured another player, and would probably be kicked out of the league, Emma takes her mother's car and wrecks her car near a river. She was then attacked by a brutal vampire but does not fully remember the attack when she regained consciousness...until he appears to her and threatens her family. She begings to
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Feb 08, 2011
Beck
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I'm gonna be honest - I finished this book sitting straight up in bed at 2 am, eyes racing down the page, heart pounding, butt-cheeks clenched, shaking fingers flipping pages like mad. R.A.Nelson is a master of suspense and the end of Throat will leave you breathless.
If you're a paranormal junkie, this book is for you. If you're a lover of realism, this book is for you, too. Nelson's main character, Emma, is a real-world gutsy girl dealing with the anxiety of epileptic seizures that i More...
If you're a paranormal junkie, this book is for you. If you're a lover of realism, this book is for you, too. Nelson's main character, Emma, is a real-world gutsy girl dealing with the anxiety of epileptic seizures that i More...
Sep 15, 2011
Joseph
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This unique tale was a great new take on the story of vampires. I really loved how it told the story of a teen girl who has epilepsy and gets bitten by a vampire and how her epilepsy becomes a blessing rather than a curse by how it affects her becoming a vampire. She gets into a great adventure fighting off the cruel, evil vampire who bit her and is hunting her down since she was able to fight him off once. She also becomes romantically involved with a boy who helps her in her battle as well
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May 08, 2011
Anne
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Emma has epilepsy. Even though this has made many aspects of her life very difficult, such as not being able to drive and having inconvenient seizures, it actually saves her life when she is attacked by a vampire. She leaves home in order to protect her mom and younger sister and hides out on the NASA base about 30 miles away. While wandering around one night, she meets Sagan, whose parents work on the base. Sagan also does work there monitoring sun eruptions when he is not at his college cl
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Mar 03, 2011
Isabella
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Emma is a 17 year old girl with a "seizure condition" (as she calls it). One day after having a seizure on the soccer field after being maliciously smacked by one of her teammates, she runs away and is attacked by a vampire: Wirtz. In the middle of his feeding, however, she has another seizure, and when she wakes up a few days later in the hospital, she discovers she has become part vampire. In addition, she has a connection with Wirtz's mind, and she knows he is coming for her, so she
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Feb 19, 2011
Hope
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This is first book in a long while that I did not finish reading. I read up to two hundred pages and I could not keep going. Even though I have this personal philosophy when it comes to books, which is if you buy you have to read it. In this case there were lots of other books that very waiting for me to read them and I did not want to waist my time on something that I was not enjoying at all.
When I purchased this book I was intrigued by its cover, the story description sounded ve More...
When I purchased this book I was intrigued by its cover, the story description sounded ve More...
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Dec 18, 2011
Martha
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I did like the new vampire angle Nelson took in this book. I thought we'd done everything with vampires possible, low and behold we have not. In this story, the vampire goes public so I think the possibilities for many more vampire stories is far-reaching.
I read this book in about a day, not because I couldn't put it down but because I was home in bed. Since I read it in a day, I noticed that the story had some problems with voice. I don't know if this was a problem for Nelson, or an erro More...
I read this book in about a day, not because I couldn't put it down but because I was home in bed. Since I read it in a day, I noticed that the story had some problems with voice. I don't know if this was a problem for Nelson, or an erro More...
Dec 27, 2011
Misfit Heartbreak
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The Review: THROAT is another vampire book that sucks readers into a new world of vampires you'd never think of.
Emma is seventeen and is cursed as she says. Emma has epilepsy and she's tired of having it she wants to be normal teen drive a car, play soccer.
After an embarrassing soccer game, she escapes in her mother's car, Along the way, her mom's car gets stuck and she encounters Wirtz, a vampire out for blood so happens to encounter Emma.
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Emma is seventeen and is cursed as she says. Emma has epilepsy and she's tired of having it she wants to be normal teen drive a car, play soccer.
After an embarrassing soccer game, she escapes in her mother's car, Along the way, her mom's car gets stuck and she encounters Wirtz, a vampire out for blood so happens to encounter Emma.
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Jan 24, 2011
Mocha ღ Latte
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Seventeen-year-old Emma feels cursed by her epilepsy—until the lost night. She's shocked to wake up in the hospital one morning, weak from blood loss. When her memories begin to return, she pieces together that it was a man—a monster—who attacked her: a vampire named Wirtz. And it was her very condition that saved her: a grand mal seizure interrupted Wirtz and left Emma with all the amazing powers of a vampire—heightened senses, rapid speed—but no need to drink blood. Is Emma now a half-vampire
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May 16, 2011
Lauren
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One of the perks of being a book reviewer for a website like this is we get access to books, often ahead of schedule. Throat, by R. A. Nelson (released January 25th, 2011) was one of those books, and not one I would have necessarily read on my own. It is called Throat for goodness sakes, which immediately made me think of vampires (and I wasn’t wrong), and the cover is a girl bending her head back. None of this seemed very unique or exciting. But I read the blurb, wanting to give this book a cha
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Jan 31, 2011
Reader
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Epilepsy ruined Emma's soccer career, but it may have saved her life. When she's bitten by an ancient vampire, a seizure racks her body and prevents him from draining her blood. Emma flees home to protect her family from the vampire, and takes up residence at an abandoned rocket facility on government research property. Trying to stay safe, she runs into a cute young junior researcher, Sagan, and finds herself getting more involved with the vampire community while protecting her new relationship
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May 04, 2011
Queen
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Emma is a newly turned vampire, as well as an epileptic, 17 year-old girl. She is unlike any other vampire, as she can go out into the sunlight and does not have the craving for blood that the others do. Emma was turned from a bite to the leg, and not the throat. Therefore the vampire who turned her if after her to finish the job, and kill her. Will Emma defeat him and live, or submit to his power and die?
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I really enjoyed this book. Emma has a great voice and unique personality that More...
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I really enjoyed this book. Emma has a great voice and unique personality that More...
Feb 21, 2011
Samantha
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I enjoyed the beginning, I enjoyed the end, but I had to trudge through the middle. It lost quite a bit of steam... mainly when Emma met the other So...moreI enjoyed the beginning, I enjoyed the end, but I had to trudge through the middle. It lost quite a bit of steam... mainly when Emma met the other Sonnen and the author had to try to explain that whole bit. It got less supernatural and more sci-fi by then. Once the climax started coming around though, the book picked up steam and got pretty
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Feb 14, 2011
Bethany
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Seventeen-year-old Emma has suffered from epilepsy all of her life. When she is attacked by a vampire, she suffers from a seizure, and the seizure somehow fuses the two together in a way that neither understands. Emma does understand that she is putting her family in danger by drawing the vampire - Wirtz - to them. In a moment of fear and anxiety, she decides to run away from home and ends up finding a place to hide out on the grounds of a NASA base in a nearby town. One night she is so hung
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May 21, 2011
Sofia
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Emma suffers from her "curse"- epilepsy. She has continuously had to struggle with it all her life, and, after an extremely embarrassing soccer game, she escapes in her mother's car, dying to get away from the humiliation. Along the way, her car gets stuck and she encounters Wirtz, the evil vampire.
He drinks from her as she has an epilepsy, therefore she is not wholly transformed into a vampire, nor is she still human. She's half and half, which is extremely rare.
She manage More...
He drinks from her as she has an epilepsy, therefore she is not wholly transformed into a vampire, nor is she still human. She's half and half, which is extremely rare.
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Aug 03, 2011
Saneea
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I first picked up this book at the suggestion of a fellow paranormal/urban fantasy reader. She raved and raved about how great this book was, so i figured i might as well check it out.
At first, i was intrigued by the story. It seemed different and pretty interesting. But... not enough halfway through i realized i was so wrong. Although the main protagonist is a breath of fresh air, the novel itself is quite boring. I feel like if it was shorter it might have been a bit more interesting, bu More...
At first, i was intrigued by the story. It seemed different and pretty interesting. But... not enough halfway through i realized i was so wrong. Although the main protagonist is a breath of fresh air, the novel itself is quite boring. I feel like if it was shorter it might have been a bit more interesting, bu More...
Jul 18, 2011
Really?I had to re-read this book a couple of times to understand where the hell the girl was at.I gave up after a while and just went along with the flow, going "Okay, she can jump that huge ass wired fense and get into a NASA base, cause NO ONE BOTHERS LOOKING IN THERE!"It didnt make much sense, but Ill give the author the benfit of the doubt and just give this book a 3.Hopefully there would be no more books of this, cause really, I was expecting something more amazing than just a pl
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Jul 08, 2011
P.E. at Tantalizing Illusions
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*another of my "not really a review" mini-reviews*
Basically things I thought:
-original twist on vampires
- things were too easy for Emma so I questioned how real thing were
- didn't like Emma at all
- confused how epilepsy made her only get the good things of vamps. I mean, what are the chances?
- liked Sagan
- did not like Sagan & Emma
- I want more evil vamps, these weren't that bad
- didn't connect m More...
Basically things I thought:
-original twist on vampires
- things were too easy for Emma so I questioned how real thing were
- didn't like Emma at all
- confused how epilepsy made her only get the good things of vamps. I mean, what are the chances?
- liked Sagan
- did not like Sagan & Emma
- I want more evil vamps, these weren't that bad
- didn't connect m More...
May 24, 2011
Gena
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A fabulous, kick-ass ride of a story!
Emma suffers a grand mal seizure when she's attacked by centuries old vampire with not even a memory of a soul left in him, and a penchant for making sure when he takes an individual's blood, he takes ALL of it!
The seizure startles him into dropping and leaving the "damaged" girl, not realizing that this girl is still alive and has been transformed by his violent and violating act; transformed enough for her to become someone she More...
Emma suffers a grand mal seizure when she's attacked by centuries old vampire with not even a memory of a soul left in him, and a penchant for making sure when he takes an individual's blood, he takes ALL of it!
The seizure startles him into dropping and leaving the "damaged" girl, not realizing that this girl is still alive and has been transformed by his violent and violating act; transformed enough for her to become someone she More...
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Apr 27, 2011
Savannah (Books With Bite)
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I will admit that this is a strange book that actually got my attention. What got me hooked was the plot. The characters were a little hard to grasp. Some seemed unbelievable while others you can get right away!
Emma is not your normal teenager. She had epilepsy and the things of the world seem far for her. She struggles with finding who she is or where she fits. After having everything she has worked for blown up in her face, Emma runs away crashing the car. But not before a vampire named W More...
Emma is not your normal teenager. She had epilepsy and the things of the world seem far for her. She struggles with finding who she is or where she fits. After having everything she has worked for blown up in her face, Emma runs away crashing the car. But not before a vampire named W More...
Jul 14, 2011
ashley
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Great action at the end of the book but it had a VERY slow middle! I wanted to give it a higher rating because I liked the book for the most part but some of it was really had to get through. The beginning and ending made up for it however. Also Emma the lead character is very annoying at times and is constantly doing something implusive or stupid. As far as the love interest honestly it didn't do much for me. Sagan is a nice guy but that is about it "nice", nothing special about him o
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Jan 27, 2012
Kaylynn
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I was in the mood for a vampire book, so I picked this up at the library. It has a few instances of taking the lords name in vain. That being said it was a very interesting read. Loved that there was a twist concerning Emma's transformation, but R.A. Nelson truly did capture the brutality of what a vampire attack would be. I loved that there were good vampires as well as bad and that the action scenes had me literally flying through the pages to find out what would happen next. Also, it had a
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Nov 16, 2011
Bliss
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Throat
By: R.A. Nelson
Published~ January 25th 2011
Genre~ Horror/Fantasy
The Setting is a small town that nobody has ever really heard of. He protagonist, Emma, is an outcast teenager with epilepsy, a seizure disorder. She refers o he disease as ‘the curse’ and blames everything on it. Soccer is everything she cares about and the only reason that her doctor lets her play is because it keeps her mind active. Until a popular stuck up girl and her go for the ball at the More...
By: R.A. Nelson
Published~ January 25th 2011
Genre~ Horror/Fantasy
The Setting is a small town that nobody has ever really heard of. He protagonist, Emma, is an outcast teenager with epilepsy, a seizure disorder. She refers o he disease as ‘the curse’ and blames everything on it. Soccer is everything she cares about and the only reason that her doctor lets her play is because it keeps her mind active. Until a popular stuck up girl and her go for the ball at the More...
Jan 02, 2012
Nicki
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This was an... interesting book. It was just so long. I mean, seriously. It's a 400 page book, and 250 pages of it is her eating with her boyfriend. That got really old, really, really fast. That was basically the only fast part of the entire novel actually. The beginning wasn't half bad (the beginning being up to the point that she starts eating with her boyfriend). The end wasn't terrible either, mostly because the fight scene was pretty cool, and, well, the book was ending.
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Jul 13, 2011
Trish
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You guys remember horror vampires ? You know, the type that ripped out your throat, sucked your blood, and left your for dead? Before vampires turned into the really hot, sexy type much more prone to kissing than actually sucking blood (not that I'm complaining). When I picked up Throat I had no idea what I was getting into. I wanted to read it in support of my friend (who also has epilepsy) to try to support her and her upcoming surgery. I'm just weird that way. And while Throat does give some
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May 30, 2011
BookWhisperer
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Throat is a strangely inventive storyline that captured my attention immediately. The idea of a young girl with epilepsy that is attacked by a vampire was very original and interesting. It was quite a journey to explore that world for this young girl after having discovered a she carries vampiristic characteristics while still human. More interesting was the actual account of her trying to medically find an explanation for her symptoms. In most stories this is avoided at all costs. It was nice t
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Feb 02, 2011
Monique
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I can not say that I enjoyed this book...I tried, I really did...I mean the cover drew me in from the moment I first saw that this was an upcoming release at the time and I was so siked to read this, but, it really disappointed me...It's definately an original take on the whole vampire lore...I liked that the emphasis was coming from german folklore which was something I had never read before, but, the story just didn't draw me in...I couldn't get an emotional connection to the heroine of the st
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