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"Delightfully disgusting, Dead Love is the new horror genre at its best. Fans of Twilight, World War Z, and Neil Gaiman will devour this fine novel whole."—ForeWord Magazine
"This novel about a live dead girl combines an international chase, the suspense of a thriller, a soupçon of sensuality, some wonderfully lyrical episodes, and a set of brand new rules for ghouls. It is ...more
"This novel about a live dead girl combines an international chase, the suspense of a thriller, a soupçon of sensuality, some wonderfully lyrical episodes, and a set of brand new rules for ghouls. It is ...more
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Hardcover, 304 pages
Published
October 12th 2010
by Stone Bridge Press
(first published September 1st 2010)
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Me encontraba emocionada por que era algo distinto a lo que estoy acostumbrada a leer; sin embargo debo decir que fue algo decepcionante.
Siento que la historia tenia mucho para dar...
Una gran trama se plantaba en la contraportada del libro y agregando a esto, que este libro fue finalista del premio Bram Stoker; no lo pensé dos veces al comprarlo.
¿Por qué 2 estrellas?
*Por querer abarcar tantas ciudades y personajes, la escritora fue perdiendo la trama principal.
*Los personajes son vacíos.
*La tra ...more
Siento que la historia tenia mucho para dar...
Una gran trama se plantaba en la contraportada del libro y agregando a esto, que este libro fue finalista del premio Bram Stoker; no lo pensé dos veces al comprarlo.
¿Por qué 2 estrellas?
*Por querer abarcar tantas ciudades y personajes, la escritora fue perdiendo la trama principal.
*Los personajes son vacíos.
*La tra ...more
2.5 estrellas.
La temática principal del libro es muy original. Lo malo es la forma en que esta narrado, por más que los personajes dicen sentir millones de cosas a la vez no te trasmiten nada.
Se me hizo eterna esta lectura, creo que me tarde un mes o algo así. Sentí que más de la mitad del libro era innecesaria, solo relleno.
No lo volvería a leer.
La temática principal del libro es muy original. Lo malo es la forma en que esta narrado, por más que los personajes dicen sentir millones de cosas a la vez no te trasmiten nada.
Se me hizo eterna esta lectura, creo que me tarde un mes o algo así. Sentí que más de la mitad del libro era innecesaria, solo relleno.
No lo volvería a leer.
Linda Watanabe McFerrin's imaginative supernatural novel, Dead Love, could be quickly summarized as a story of zombies in Japan that takes the reader all over the world. Sounds intriguing but if zombies aren't a favorite topic, the reader most likely will leave this book on the shelf. To add to the summary that a lovestruck ghoul, Clement, plans to turn his object of desire, a young dancer named Erin, into a zombie may add more intrigue but still leave the book on the shelf. To describe this nov
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Una historia de zombis de regular a mala. Esta entretenida pero sin mas.
Este libro se me hizo diferente e interesante
Dead Love is the story of Erin Orison, a sulky eighteen-year-old dancer who is just dead-eyed, vapid and unlikeable before her transmogrification into half-zombie as she is afterwards.
She is soon revealed to be at the centre of a blackmail plot involving a stolen microchip containing data about her father’s dastardly deals and deeds. But amidst the seedy underworld conspiracy and espionage is a bizarre and diabolical love story; a corpse-inhabiting, shape-shifting ghoul called Clément is smitte ...more
She is soon revealed to be at the centre of a blackmail plot involving a stolen microchip containing data about her father’s dastardly deals and deeds. But amidst the seedy underworld conspiracy and espionage is a bizarre and diabolical love story; a corpse-inhabiting, shape-shifting ghoul called Clément is smitte ...more
This is the kind of book that makes me really sad. Not because the story is sad, but because it fell so far short of what I think it could've been. I admit to not finishing it--perhaps one could argue that I didn't give it enough of a chance. But I read nearly a quarter of it, most of it a painful holding out of hope that didn't find satisfaction.
The author is undoubtedly talented. The writing is very good, even exquisite at times. I found the set up for the story interesting, and I'm a sucker ...more
The author is undoubtedly talented. The writing is very good, even exquisite at times. I found the set up for the story interesting, and I'm a sucker ...more
From Booklist
The heroine of Watanabe’s delightfully lurid tale is 18-year-old Erin Orison, who has arrived in Tokyo to live with her father, Christian, an American ambassador, and study dance under a legendary Japanese master. Erin is disappointed but unsurprised to find her father absent when she arrives in Tokyo. He leaves her in the care of a handsome Japanese man named Ryu, whom she soon learns is a gangster. She also unwittingly meets the ghoul Clement, a creature who moves from dead body t ...more
The heroine of Watanabe’s delightfully lurid tale is 18-year-old Erin Orison, who has arrived in Tokyo to live with her father, Christian, an American ambassador, and study dance under a legendary Japanese master. Erin is disappointed but unsurprised to find her father absent when she arrives in Tokyo. He leaves her in the care of a handsome Japanese man named Ryu, whom she soon learns is a gangster. She also unwittingly meets the ghoul Clement, a creature who moves from dead body t ...more
La idea del libro me entusiasmó mucho, pero el sentimiento se esfumó desde las primeras páginas. Yo creía que sería un libro sobre los zombies come cerebros y no tuvo nada que ver con esto. Aunque eso no fue lo que me desagradó del libro, debo mencionar.
No sé qué pasó pero la historia me confundió mucho, quizás iba muy rápido o no es mi estilo de lectura pero yo sólo quería terminar el libro para poder comenzar otro que sí pudiera disfrutar. Lo único que me ha parecido rescatable fue el final, l ...more
No sé qué pasó pero la historia me confundió mucho, quizás iba muy rápido o no es mi estilo de lectura pero yo sólo quería terminar el libro para poder comenzar otro que sí pudiera disfrutar. Lo único que me ha parecido rescatable fue el final, l ...more
No sé que pensar de este libro, no es malo pero la historia (al menos para mí) tiene huecos y asuntos inconclusos, aparte de que cierto capítulo me confundió bastante no sabía exactamente quién lo estaba narrando y cómo era que el personaje hubiera llegado a ese punto. Por otro lado, las escenas "eróticas" (entre comillas porque era más como lujuria desenfrenada) fueron como de ¿Whuuuuaaat? (sí, así) porque la protagonista es algo cambiante respecto a galanes y muuuuy lanzada; tenemos también el
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This marks a fork in the road for the author. It's quite different from her other books, and you need to be ready for a delightfully ghoulishly bumpy ride. Confession: I meant to read this on my cross country plane trip, but failed to finish by the time we landed--because I kept re-reading passages. They're that good. Watanabe McFerrin may write compellingly about zombies, but she's anything but a zombie herself.
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Dead Love is a spellbinding story pitting a not-quite-zombie girl against a smitten ghoul, stealthy black-clad ninjas and tattooed Japanese gangsters. McFerrin's stunning prose evokes her story's shifting locations from Tokyo's clip joints and karaoke bars to a drug-runner's Amsterdam houseboat. Lovers of the vampire/zombie genre will drool over Dead Love. The rest of us will be amazed at how thrilling - and literate - a zombie novel can be.
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Cuando vi el libro y leí la sinopsis no pude evitar querer el libro, pero cuando lo comencé a leer se me hizo de lo más aburrido, no lo recomiendo en lo absoluto, la historia no siento que fuera a alguna parte y el personaje principal, Erin, era de lo más aburrida y sin historia. Las palabras rebuscadas lo hacen más pesado. Nuevamente, no lo recomiendo, y si le doy dos estrellas es porque la idea era buena y la portada está linda.
Not a typical zombie novel, more like magic realism with a zombie theme. Found it a bit slow starting, but it takes off around page 60 and never lets up after that. Fascinating cast of characters. Well-written throughout with some wonderfully wrought descriptive passages.
Yakuza Zombies in Tokyo. What else is there to say? Makes me want to go out and eat some brains. Really entertaining.
A pesar de que es un libro para adolescentes, la trama está muy bien desarrollada a la usanza japonesa, con un final quizás predecible, pero muy conmovedor.
May 02, 2011
Jack Hastings
marked it as to-read
Stoker Nominee, 2011
Nov 27, 2011
Paul
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More traditional but more avant-garde than typical zombie fare, Dead Love is a fun book that's got itself some serious brains.
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meh :-B
me gustó mucho, está bien escrito, me parece hasta un poco psicológico y el final... excelente
It's almost impressive how she made a story about humans, ghouls, soul-snatchers and vampires existing in the same world this boring. Almost....
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Zombies in Japan and Hati and Amsterdam and . . . Lots of creepy, sensuous fun.
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Linda Watanabe McFerrin (www.lwmcferrin.com) is a poet, travel writer, novelist and longtime contributor to numerous newspapers, magazines and anthologies. She is the author of two poetry collections, past editor of a popular Northern California guidebook and a winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction. Her novel, Namako: Sea Cucumber, was named Best Book for the Teen-Age by the New Yo ...more
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