Children of the Night, Dan Simmons
Children of the Night, Dan Simmons
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Children of the Night

Author: Dan Simmons

Narrator: George Ralph

Unabridged: 14 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 02/22/2008

Categories: Fiction, Horror

Synopsis

In a desolate orphanage in what remains of post-Communist Romania, a desperately ill infant is given the wrong blood transfusion - and flourishes when he's supposed to die. The discovery of his unique immune system may hold the key to the long-awaited cure for cancer and AIDS. For a dedicated American doctor, he promises the medical breakthrough of a lifetime, as well as a very special love she's never been able to find. But he also conceals a shockingly intimate link to a clan of vampires and their legendary leader - the fiend the world calls Vlad Dracula, who, for centuries, has triumphed over countless rival tyrants, including death itself...

About Dan Simmons

DAN SIMMONS is a recipient of numerous major international awards, including the Hugo Award, World Fantasy Award, Bram Stoker Award, and the Shirley Jackson Award. He is widely considered to be one of the premier multiple-genre fiction writers in the world. His most recent novels include the New York Times bestsellers The Terror and Drood, as well as Black Hills. He lives along the Front Range in Colorado and has never grown tired of the views.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Baba on March 08, 2022

Dan Simmons takes a fascinating re-look at the vampire mythos, by deep dive focusing on the pseudo (blood) science and the Eastern European roots of it all, and doing a damn fine job, possibly to the distraction of the overall story and characterisations? Set mostly in Romania, the book follows a to......more

Goodreads review by Dave on December 15, 2022

"And the carefully honed legend of Vlad Dracula grew sharper, and extended it's reach to the hearts of my enemies." 3.75 ⭐ Initial Thoughts If there's one thing this world needs it's more vampire novels. I'm not talking those awful, sparkly Twilight vampires. I'm talking the blood thirsty killers o......more

Goodreads review by David on February 06, 2017

4.5 stars. I keep fluctuating between a score of either 4-or-5, because this is a tough cookie to rank accurately. Children of the Night presents an interesting take on vampires (and to be honest it is one worthy of its own mythos). It also features an excellent introduction by Simmons himself, in wh......more

Goodreads review by Craig on October 25, 2020

This is a good, traditional vampire novel (Vlad's about as traditional as you can get, right?), told with a quite a bit of political intrigue and suspense/medical/thriller elements thrown in. It hasn't aged as well as many of his other "contemporary" novels, but it's still a fine and fangy fun-for-a......more

Goodreads review by Corey on May 04, 2021

Vampires! Romania! Vlad the Impaler! You’ve heard it all before. Or have you? Dan Simmons returns to the Summer of Night universe, or as it’s called on here, “Seasons of Horror”, to take on the vampire mythos. It isn’t really a sequel, and the vibe of this book is far different than Summer, but it d......more

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