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Grant-Williams High #1-2
Mayhem at Grant-Williams High
Think your high school experience was Hell? Vampires, werewolves, mummies, ghouls... and moron idiot students. Welcome to Grant-Williams High.
This edition collects the novellas Hell Week at Grant-Williams High and Halloween at Grant-Williams High.
This edition collects the novellas Hell Week at Grant-Williams High and Halloween at Grant-Williams High.
124 pages, Paperback
First published September 16, 2006
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About the author
Vera Nazarian
79 books1,038 followersVera Nazarian is a two-time Nebula Award Finalist, award-winning artist, and member of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, a writer with a penchant for moral fables and stories of intense wonder, true love, and intricacy.
She immigrated to the USA from the former USSR as a kid, sold her first story at the age of 17, and since then has published numerous works in anthologies and magazines, and has seen her fiction translated into eight languages.
She is the author of critically acclaimed novels Dreams of the Compass Rose and Lords of Rainbow , romantic Renaissance epic fantasy trilogy Cobweb Bride , as well as the outrageous parodies Mansfield Park and Mummies and Northanger Abbey and Angels and Dragons , Pride and Platypus: Mr. Darcy's Dreadful Secret in her humorous and surprisingly romantic Supernatural Jane Austen Series , and most recently the bestselling high-octane science fiction series The Atlantis Grail , now optioned for film.
After many years in Los Angeles, Vera lives in a small town in Vermont, and uses her Armenian sense of humor and her Russian sense of suffering to bake conflicted pirozhki and make art.
Take the fun quiz to find out Which of the Lords of Rainbow do You Serve?
She immigrated to the USA from the former USSR as a kid, sold her first story at the age of 17, and since then has published numerous works in anthologies and magazines, and has seen her fiction translated into eight languages.
She is the author of critically acclaimed novels Dreams of the Compass Rose and Lords of Rainbow , romantic Renaissance epic fantasy trilogy Cobweb Bride , as well as the outrageous parodies Mansfield Park and Mummies and Northanger Abbey and Angels and Dragons , Pride and Platypus: Mr. Darcy's Dreadful Secret in her humorous and surprisingly romantic Supernatural Jane Austen Series , and most recently the bestselling high-octane science fiction series The Atlantis Grail , now optioned for film.
After many years in Los Angeles, Vera lives in a small town in Vermont, and uses her Armenian sense of humor and her Russian sense of suffering to bake conflicted pirozhki and make art.
Take the fun quiz to find out Which of the Lords of Rainbow do You Serve?
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January 14, 2013
Book Info: Genre: Urban Fantasy satire
Reading Level: YA
Recommended for: anyone
Trigger Warnings: Monsters and mayhem
Disclosure: I picked up this book for myself from Amazon during a free promotion because I enjoy this author’s style of writing. No review was requested. All opinions are my own.
Synopsis: Think your high school experience was Hell? Vampires, werewolves, mummies, ghouls... and moron idiot students. Welcome to Grant-Williams High.
My Thoughts: So, the basic premise: each finals week, the teachers turn into monsters. Oh, dear lady... I about choked when I started reading and saw that, because I just find the whole idea... to be HILARIOUS!! Vera Nazarian will kill me with her silliness yet, I do declare...
This book actually contains the first two adventures at Grant-Williams High; another one is planned with the next two adventures, and I will totally be there. This book was wonderfully fun—sort of like a milder version of Buffy—and I just loved it. The characters were a lot of fun, and the idea was an absolute hoot. Since it is novella-length as it is, and that contains two stories, there isn’t much I can tell you about it without putting in spoilers, so let me just say: if you enjoyed Buffy the Vampire Slayer, you will enjoy these fun stories. Check it out.
I will now have to take a break from my Vera Nazarian marathon, as I realized I had promised a couple of reviews over the weekend that were not done because I forgot what week I was in. I will be back to finish Vera Nazarian’s books after a brief break to read the two I was supposed to read over the weekend.
Reading Level: YA
Recommended for: anyone
Trigger Warnings: Monsters and mayhem
Disclosure: I picked up this book for myself from Amazon during a free promotion because I enjoy this author’s style of writing. No review was requested. All opinions are my own.
Synopsis: Think your high school experience was Hell? Vampires, werewolves, mummies, ghouls... and moron idiot students. Welcome to Grant-Williams High.
My Thoughts: So, the basic premise: each finals week, the teachers turn into monsters. Oh, dear lady... I about choked when I started reading and saw that, because I just find the whole idea... to be HILARIOUS!! Vera Nazarian will kill me with her silliness yet, I do declare...
This book actually contains the first two adventures at Grant-Williams High; another one is planned with the next two adventures, and I will totally be there. This book was wonderfully fun—sort of like a milder version of Buffy—and I just loved it. The characters were a lot of fun, and the idea was an absolute hoot. Since it is novella-length as it is, and that contains two stories, there isn’t much I can tell you about it without putting in spoilers, so let me just say: if you enjoyed Buffy the Vampire Slayer, you will enjoy these fun stories. Check it out.
I will now have to take a break from my Vera Nazarian marathon, as I realized I had promised a couple of reviews over the weekend that were not done because I forgot what week I was in. I will be back to finish Vera Nazarian’s books after a brief break to read the two I was supposed to read over the weekend.
January 14, 2016
This is an interesting and at times hilarious book about a high school. There are two main sections to the book. In the first one it's hell week, which is final exam week. With one addition. The teachers actually turn into monsters, real ones, and the school principal turns into Satan. A small group of kids tries to avoid being turned into monsters and one of them confronts Satan himself. Things don't look good for the kids until Vishnu and Brahma show up and then things get really interesting.
The second story concerns a janitor's closet which is emitting black ash. The door is rumored to be a direct portal to Hell. Satan, though, is trying to keep the door shut and claims that, if it gets opened, something far worse them him will be released. He takes over some kids to use them to keep the door closed but it gets opened anyhow and what it unleashes will have you laughing out loud.
This is a fun read all the way through.
The second story concerns a janitor's closet which is emitting black ash. The door is rumored to be a direct portal to Hell. Satan, though, is trying to keep the door shut and claims that, if it gets opened, something far worse them him will be released. He takes over some kids to use them to keep the door closed but it gets opened anyhow and what it unleashes will have you laughing out loud.
This is a fun read all the way through.
November 19, 2015
I've generally loved Vera Nazarian's other books, so I was excited to see what she'd do in the YA horror-comedy genre. I was certainly not expecting this poorly-written mess that, frankly, I'm surprised Nazarian would want associated with her name. It's less Buffy and more Superbad, but quite poorly written and lacking any respect for the intelligence or sensitivity of its target readers, in terms of both content and copy-editing.
There are two novellas collected here: Hell Week at Grant-Williams High and Halloween at Grant-Williams High. I liked the first half of the latter slightly more than all the rest, because it introduced Monica, who seemed like she might get more development than all the other myriad characters (way too many for a work of this length), and had better pacing. But eventually this too went off the rails. What a missed opportunity.
There are two novellas collected here: Hell Week at Grant-Williams High and Halloween at Grant-Williams High. I liked the first half of the latter slightly more than all the rest, because it introduced Monica, who seemed like she might get more development than all the other myriad characters (way too many for a work of this length), and had better pacing. But eventually this too went off the rails. What a missed opportunity.
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