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Title: Prom Nights from Hell
ISBN: 0061253103
Author:
Meg Cabot
Stephenie Meyer
Kim Harrison
Lauren Myracle
Michele Jaffe
Publicate Date: 2007-05-01
Publish: 2007-05-01
List Price: $16.99
Average Customer Rating: 3.5
Format: Hardcover
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1: Disappointing
Besides the fact that most of the stories have some kind of "open endings" (which means that they probably just run out of pages and had to end the story wherever they were typing at that moment), I only liked the last two stories, Michele Jaffe's one made me laugh out loud, and the Stephenie Meyer's one was good too. The rest was poor written in my opinion.
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2: Fun Supernatural Prom Stories With Too Many Loose Ends
Reviewed by Jocelyn Pearce
on 07/13/2008
These are not your typical prom nights. Each of the five authors has written a spooky, supernatural story about Prom. Some great authors are included in this collection, and it's certainly worth reading! The stories include a range of supernatural characters, from vampires to demons to fortune-tellers, and one is even based on a work by Edgar Allen Poe. They're all absorbing and interesting.
So much so, in fact, that it would be nice to see more with each story. Though each of the stories was very well-written and included awesome characters, they felt incomplete. I want whole novels, not short stories! Expanding these stories into novels would be great; as they are, though, there are too many loose ends. Perhaps the problem with this book is that I loved it too much!
While it is an enjoyable read, it would be even better to see these short stories expanded on in the future.
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3: prom night
This book was a real let down. It was boring and the endings were a not very well written.
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4: Entertaining but not great
It is what it is, an anthology of short stories. With that being said, I really enjoyed Stephenie Meyer's story "Hell on Earth." It was an interesting concept; angels, highschool deamons, and mischief galore. The only story that I wasn't to fond of was Meg Cabot's "The Exterminator's Daughter." It seemed alittle like Buffy the Vampire slayer, a concept that is slightly overdone. Maybe it's just me but I once read an article about Meg Cabot and how she didn't like the Twilight series, calling them antifeminist. So I'm not sure if her story was kind of meant to mock the Twilight series and Stephenie Meyer? So that was alittle awkward to read.
The other stories were good quick reads. This is a book you should borrow and read, then just pass it along.
On a side note: right now I'm reading the "Uglies" series and so far it's been great. Definitely give those books a try.
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5: It was pretty good...
Well, I'm not really familiar with any of these authors beside Stephenie Meyer (and I love her - I'm addicted to the Twilight saga). I mean, I've heard of most of these authors from somewhere or another, but I've never read anything by them before. That being said, I might be a little biased towards Stephenie...just a little though.
The book, over all, was pretty good. I wasn't blown away. And like some other people have said, the stories were all really open-ended. So, here are my individual review for each story:
"The Exterminator's Daughter" by Meg Cabot and "The Corsage" by Lauren Myracle (I put them together because I have the same comments about for both of them): I give them three stars. I found both of these stories a bit cliche - kind of been-there-done-that...nothing new. Everything was pretty predictable.
"Madison Avery and the Dim Reaper" by Kim Harrison and "Kiss and Tell" by Michele Jaffe: I give them four stars. There was some pretty good action and somethings that I didn't expect to happen.
"Hell on Earth" by Stephenie Meyer: I give it five stars. And I don't think I'm being THAT biased. The story was simpler than "Madison Avery and the Dim Reaper" and "Kiss and Tell" but all the pieces fit together very well. I was impressed.
There...that's my review. Hope it helped! :)
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