Vampirarchy, Tome 1: Legally Undead
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- Margo Bond Collins (Écrivain)
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Prologue
The worst thing about vampires is that they’re dead. That whole wanting to suck your blood business runs a close second, but for sheer creepiness, it’s the dead bit that gets me every time. They’re up and walking around and talking and sucking blood, but they’re dead. And then there’s the whole terminology problem—how can you kill something that’s already dead? It’s just wrong.
I was twenty-four the first time I… destroyed? dispatched?… a vampire. That’s when I found out that all the books and movies are wrong. When you stick a wooden stake into their hearts, vampires don’t disintegrate into dust. They don’t explode. They don’t spew blood everywhere. They just look surprised, groan, and collapse into a pile of corpse. But at least they lie still then, like corpses are supposed to.
Since that first kill (I might as well use the word—there really isn’t a better one), I’ve discovered that only if you’re lucky, do vampires look surprised before they groan and fall down. If you’re unlucky and miss the heart, they look angry. And then they fight.
There are the other usual ways to kill vampires, of course, but these other ways can get a bit complicated. Vampires are notoriously difficult to trick into sunlight. They have an uncanny ability to sense when there’s any sunlight within miles of them, and they’re awfully good at hiding from it. Holy water doesn’t kill them; it just distracts them for a while, and then they get that angry look again. And it takes a pretty big blade to cut off someone’s head—even an already dead someone—and carrying a great big knife around New York City, even the Bronx, is a sure way to get arrested. Nope, pointy sticks are the best way to go, all around.
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Elle dupée à tout pour réussir. En master, elle est sur le point de se marié à l'homme de sa vie. Jusqu'au jours où Greg se fait dévoré par un vampire sous ses yeux. Son fiancé transformé en créatures de la nuit, Elle n'a plus que pour objectif de le retrouver et de le tuer. Heureusement qu'elle a rencontré une équipe de chasseurs de vampires pour l'aider dans sa missions. Cependant la chasse ne sera pas aussi facile qu'Elle le pense.
Bon lecture genre buffy (la série de mon adolescence ❤️) . Ce roman est sympa et sans prise de tête. J'ai beaucoup aimé l'histoire sans être un coup de cœur. Faut ce l'avouer, le roman manque du réalisme qui aurait permis d'avoir le frisson lors des combats. Le tome 2 se concentre sur nick est malheureusement ne me donne pas très envie. Ça aurait pu être une bonne saga mais ce n'est pas assez recherché à mon goût.
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A reluctant vampire hunter, stalking New York City as only a scorned bride can.
Elle Dupree has her life all figured out: first a wedding, then her Ph.D., then swank faculty parties where she'll serve wine and cheese and introduce people to her husband the lawyer.
But those plans disintegrate when she walks in on a vampire sucking the blood from her fiancé, Greg. Horrified, she screams and runs—not away from the vampire, but toward it, brandishing a wooden letter opener.
As she slams the improvised stake into the vampire's heart, a team of black-clad men bursts into the apartment. Turning to face them, Elle realizes Greg's body is gone—and her perfect life falls apart.
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