Midnight Mass

Midnight Mass
by F. Paul Wilson

Midnight Mass
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Author: F. Paul Wilson
Edition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-11-01
ISBN: 0765346346
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: Tor Books

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Book Review: I loved it....but I am in the minority I suppose!
Summary: 5 Stars

First let me give my opinion as to why this book is not rated "4 stars" or better. I think that most people will be turned off by the characters and the plot development...let me explain.

Vampires(in this novel) are much different than vampires in most modern novels...they feel different, they act different, they even look different than what we would normally picture them to be like.

The plot follows a few main characters but does jump around quite a bit so it is kind of hard to understand what is going on if you are NOT paying too much attention.

However, I pay attention, and I love the way the vampires are designed but I am guessing that my assumption is correct as to why most people rated this poorly! Anyways....to the Review!

Midnight Mass:

This book is just excellent! I have never really pictured vampires as the author describes them. I normally envision regal characters dining on flesh to survive, not killing but adding anpther to the immortal flock. Well, Wilson(the author) has a different-and more brutal- story to tell. In Wilson's world(Earth a few years from now-ruled by vampires) the vampires are the Kings of the planet. But Vampires can only travel at night, so you may be thinking-why don't the people just hide at night and go out in the day...- well Wilson has the answer to that question, my dear friend.

The Vampires employ groups of Cowboys(free humans who do the Vampire's bidding) to round up people in the afternoon to bring back to their lairs at the setting sun. The World is perched on the eve of destruction with no hopes for survival, unless you count a nun who prostituted herself after the fall of the church for survival; a Drunken, excommunicated Priest that has fallen out of grace, and a Rabbi who wears a cross for protection(the irony).

Summary of Midnight Mass

Vampires have always lived in Eastern Europe. But with the fall of the Soviet Union, they began to spread across the continent, then the world, turning whole populations into vampires--or human cattle. Having overrun India, the far East, and the great cities of North and South America, the forces of Night are now spreading into the countryside to consolidate their conquest.
In a town on the New Jersey shore, the vampires have just arrived, along with their human henchmen, the cowboys, who round up human cattle for the overlords in return for the promise of eternal life---later. For the vampires wish only a few of their own kind to rule, and feed. The rest of humanity are to be helpless herds, the source of the blood of life.
Falsely accused of abuse, Father Dan is drunk in a basement waiting for the end. His superior has betrayed the local Catholic congregation and become a vampire. Sister Carolyn has become a formidable killer of cowboys and vampires. Dan's niece, escaped from the conquest of New York, has made her way south to find him. Brought together by Rabbi Zev Wolpin, who is shaken by the vampires' fear of the cross and holy water, they plan their resistance. Against all odds, they discover that there just might be a way for humanity to really fight back. But first they will have to kill the vampire king of New York.

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