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Dan Simmons is certainly one of the most inventive and literate writers of horror fiction today, and Children of the Night is without question a solid horror novel. Set in Romania just after the fall of Ceausescu's communist regime, Simmons presents a backdrop for this vampire novel that is appropriately chaotic, confusing, and corrupt.

Hematologist Kate Neuman has been working in a Romanian hospital, tending to the astounding number of orphaned children deposited there when she encounters a sickly young child who has a remarkable genetic abnormality that might just lead to a cure for AIDS and other blood pathogen diseases. Unfortunately an ancient secret society, led by the still-living Vlad Tsepes (better known by his formal name Count Dracula) has its own sinister plans for the child.

A globe-spanning race ensues as Kate and renegade Catholic priest Mike O-Rourke set out on a grim mission to save the child and bring Dracula and his followers to their demise.

Simmons's writing here is crisp and clear, and his descriptions of Romania in post-communist shambles is breathtaking. Unfortunately, so much of the novel is taken up with unnecessarily complex technical discussions of blood diseases and viruses that at times it reads more like a medical textbook than a breakneck horror novel. The result is a book that gets mired in its own details at times, breaking the otherwise rocketing pace and suspense.

But Simmons's grace as a writer wins out in the end, and the book has enough thrills and cliffhangers to keep you up late into the night feverishly turning the pages. It was especially refreshing to see Mike O'Rourke, last seen as a child in Simmons's classic Summer of Night, grown to become a priest not because he believes in God, but because he has witnessed evil firsthand.


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Children of the Night Dan Simmons 9780446364751 Books Reviews

I love Dan Simmons novels. Drood is my favorite. I give this one four stars instead of five even though it was a page turner and fun to read. I am not a huge reader of horror/sci fi and find his more realistic books scary enough. Two things kept this from being a five for me -- I thought the scientific explanations went on for too long and could have been condensed. I thought the ending strained credulity but maybe expecting credulity in a novel about Dracula was inappropriate.
An interesting take on Vampire myth, where it is a double recesive genetic disorder that causes immune system anomalies negated by drinking blood or blood transfusions. The first part where Dr. Neuman is working in Romania, finds the sick baby, adoption, research in CDC, and even the attacks of the vampires to recover the kid, make for a 5 star book, but when she goes back to Romania the book suddenly turns into a dumb Hollywood action movie where Dr Neumann and Father Orourke are expert fighters, trackers, marksmen, spies, and lovers, baah.
Simmons did a masterful job with the vampire legend. This novel has a hard sci-fi approach to horror. For the averag, non-lab, chemistry,blood analysis person some of the science can be tough as he establishes verisimilitude. I understood some of it, but I was able to get the idea.
Either you enjoy the technical aspect, and the authenticity therein, or you don't. If you don't, it is not a painfully long process to read through and is done early in the story. If you do, it makes this book work on many levels.
After establishing the plausibility, he creates several tense scenes and likable characters before beginning a journey with them that had me reading this book non-stop. The pace and intensity pick up as the book nears the climax, proving that this author does indeed know how to finish a book well. Certain authors write with the end game in mind from page one and this reads like it.
This title made me a Dan Simmons fan. I liked his sci-fi novels, but I like hard sci-fi in general if it is well written, so for me this was a good fit
Dan Simmons brilliant, dare I suggest classic novel SUMMER OF NIGHT was my first experience reading this author. I read the book when I should have been sleeping, continued on my lunch break at work, and found myself breathless with suspense, literally sitting on the edge of my couch, bed, and chairs in hopes the all too human protagonist adolescent heroes would conquer the most evil, unimaginable forces put to print. SUMMER OF NIGHT was one of those books you can't read fast enough, but at the same time, want to slow down and make the experience last forever...CHILDREN OF NIGHT features one of SUMMER'S main characters as a main character here, and there are some other slight connections. What is so interesting and compelling about this novel, is how Simmons connects his horror/fantasy to the realistic horror and political upheaval which Romania suffered in the recent past, along with some feasible, not too ridiculous ideas in connecting vampirism and its mythical biological suggestions to scientists finding cures for cancer and AIDS within the blood carried by those cursed creatures. Simmons fashions a setting that makes sense and heightens the stakes as we, the readers, develop an attachment in caring what happens to the story's chief protagonists Father Michael O'Rourke (A Priest whose calling was to fight evil which he DID believe in, with a god he wasn't sure if he believed in), and Doctor Kate Neuman, a thoughtful, passionate scientist whom adopts a very sick orphan infant she names Joshua which she cared for while working in the cold dank, zoo like orphanages of Romania. What Neuman is not prepared for is the idea that perhaps this boy was orphaned by mistake, and just perhaps there exist dark forces in the world that will stop at nothing to see to it the boy is returned to Romania. The plot is complex, smart, always entertaining - and again, a novel by Simmons that I am having to scrape and claw for every minute and second to finish a book I love so much, I just can't wait to read the very next word, page, and chapter...and as I am learning, this feeling may easily carry over to anticipating the next Simmons' book I'll read. So thrilling to discover this wonderful writer, that was there all along, waiting for me to find his books. Reminds me of hearing Cheap Trick, The Ramones or Sonic Youth for the first time...perfect!
Dan Simmons is certainly one of the most inventive and literate writers of horror fiction today, and Children of the Night is without question a solid horror novel. Set in Romania just after the fall of Ceausescu's communist regime, Simmons presents a backdrop for this vampire novel that is appropriately chaotic, confusing, and corrupt.

Hematologist Kate Neuman has been working in a Romanian hospital, tending to the astounding number of orphaned children deposited there when she encounters a sickly young child who has a remarkable genetic abnormality that might just lead to a cure for AIDS and other blood pathogen diseases. Unfortunately an ancient secret society, led by the still-living Vlad Tsepes (better known by his formal name Count Dracula) has its own sinister plans for the child.

A globe-spanning race ensues as Kate and renegade Catholic priest Mike O-Rourke set out on a grim mission to save the child and bring Dracula and his followers to their demise.

Simmons's writing here is crisp and clear, and his descriptions of Romania in post-communist shambles is breathtaking. Unfortunately, so much of the novel is taken up with unnecessarily complex technical discussions of blood diseases and viruses that at times it reads more like a medical textbook than a breakneck horror novel. The result is a book that gets mired in its own details at times, breaking the otherwise rocketing pace and suspense.

But Simmons's grace as a writer wins out in the end, and the book has enough thrills and cliffhangers to keep you up late into the night feverishly turning the pages. It was especially refreshing to see Mike O'Rourke, last seen as a child in Simmons's classic Summer of Night, grown to become a priest not because he believes in God, but because he has witnessed evil firsthand.