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Blade: Trinity
The vampire apocalypse looms as a desperate battle unfolds to end the secret millennia-long war between the vampires and the few humans who know of their existence. The Daywalker, Blade is pitted against his ultimate nemesis as the vampires get close to unlocking the secret which will allow them to walk in the daylight - freeing them to dominate the world. In the midst of this desperate race against time, Blade is driven underground - hunted by the law after the FBI uncover footage of him 'murdering' a vampire. With the help of a crack team of vampire hunters called the Nightstalkers, Blade must unleash a deadly plague that will wipe out vampire-kind forever but with the probability of ending his own life. When the ultimate vampire stands in his way, Blade is drawn into a deadly battle for his life and the future of humanity Awesome novelization of the much-anticipated New Line Cinema movie
416 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published October 26, 2004
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Natasha Rhodes
10 books56 followersNATASHA RHODES is the British-born author of a worrying number of popular novels about vampires and werewolves, including the smash-hit movie blockbusters 'Blade: Trinity,' 'Final Destination: The Movie 1 and 2,' and 'A Nightmare on Elm Street: Perchance To Dream.' Her original Kayla Steele Vampire Hunter novels have been published internationally to occasional critical acclaim.
Natasha currently works on the Research & Threat Intelligence team of a major cybersecurity company. She'd write a book about her experiences if she thought anyone would believe her. She currently lives in in Orange County, California, with her husband (the bass player in a Motley Crue tribute band), and her two rescue cats.
Natasha currently works on the Research & Threat Intelligence team of a major cybersecurity company. She'd write a book about her experiences if she thought anyone would believe her. She currently lives in in Orange County, California, with her husband (the bass player in a Motley Crue tribute band), and her two rescue cats.
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June 25, 2017
I really enjoyed this novelization. Going in, I expected it to basically be the movie with maybe some deleted scenes. I was surprised to find scenes from the film written differently than what ended up in the film.
It was a nice surprise because I wasn't reading something word for word of what I had already watched. I wonder if that was on the author's part or original script material? Either way I enjoyed it.
I also really loved reading Blade's inner thoughts. With a character as stoic and silent as Blade, you never be really sure what he is thinking. This book gives you insight to that.
I recommend for lovers of the movie and lovers of vampires.
It was a nice surprise because I wasn't reading something word for word of what I had already watched. I wonder if that was on the author's part or original script material? Either way I enjoyed it.
I also really loved reading Blade's inner thoughts. With a character as stoic and silent as Blade, you never be really sure what he is thinking. This book gives you insight to that.
I recommend for lovers of the movie and lovers of vampires.
August 12, 2017
My first gripe with this novel is the usage of the term 'sunshades' over 'sunglasses'. Short handing to just 'shades' would have been perfectly acceptable, yet every time they are mentioned, it is 'sunshades'. That bothered me from the beginning to the end. There were also quite a few small errors in formatting, occasionally grammar, yet at least there were no spelling mistakes(that I can recall).
Regarding the story itself, again having seen the film some few years ago before I picked up the book, I had a pretty good idea of what to expect in most scenes. I will say that the author captured a lot more mood and atmosphere than I feel the film conveyed. I found Drake's thoughts and his reminiscence fairly good.
It was neat to see the vampires turn so desperate to work around Blade that they dug up Dracula. And he was everything a true vampire should have been, and then some, right down to his monstrous true form underneath the human guise. I found it a bit odd that he took on different identities in the ancient past, but not something that I could complain about.
I think Whistler's hobby of taking a nice little scroll introduced here is plot-induced-stupidity. It makes no sense to me that such a gritty, hard-as-nails man, who has preached caution so hard at Blade previously and who has lived through a hell of a lot of bad things, would be so foolish as to walk around with a casual scroll down to the seven eleven regularly. I know that they have to buy supplies somehow, and Blade himself isn't exactly ideal for that(though apparently he fences the goods collected from vampire kills or some such), but it still rubs me the wrong way.
Whistler grinding Blade's gears over killing the human bait in the early chapters is fine. But IMO, it isn't Blade's mistake there that ultimately brought things down on their heads, it was Whistler leading the FBI right to their little hideaway because he was so careless for no good reason.
And then there is Whistler's other armful of secrets - the Nightstalkers. All this time we've been lead to believe it is just Blade and Whistler making a dent in the vampires, and I was mostly okay with that. The Nightstalkers just don't do it for me. I found King moderately entertaining, and Abigail tolerable, but aside from that I didn't really *care* about these people. So when Drake came along and slaughtered the first batch(for the most part) I shrugged and kept turning pages.
And then there's another group ready and willing to step in and pick up the slack. Its this next few Nightstalkers who provide the plot-ending mcguffin, the plague virus, in an actual tangible form thanks to Sommerfield's quick thinking. Nice concept for wrapping up the threat of the vampires completely, as apparently happens by the end of the novel.
I found the new cadre of vampires who dug up Drake to be insufferable. At least whats-her-name in charge had some personality worth reading about, unlike Asher or Grimwood. I believe it was mentioned that she found out Drake existed from reading surviving scraps of the Book of Erebus, which Deacon Frost deciphered to learn about the 'blood god' from the first novel.
And speaking of Deacon Frost, his little extended background, worked in for why Blade's hybrid status came out favorably at all, felt like an unnecessary addition.
The stuff with the cops/FBI/familiars/etc was decent. Not great, but fine.
The final battle went better than I'd remembered, by which I mean Blade was able to keep up for a bit until he well and truly pissed Drake off, and then he was beaten like a ragdoll by the one true vampire Blade had ever faced. I was pleasantly surprised to see that Zoe gave Blade the brief window of opportunity to drag his hide up from the floor and stab Drake with the plague virus, and it was interesting as Drake deteriorated once the virus began to get inside of him and do its job.
What I'd like to know is how Blade was able to survive. From the state he was in at the end of that battle, he was better than halfway dead, and the vampire virus inside of his body should have died at that point, meaning he couldn't get a quick recovery from taking a blood snack. So how then does a mostly-human Blade survive so much trauma and shock? There's no mention of it. Somehow, King and Abigail hauled him out with them and got him the treatment he needed.
The ending for Blade, nevertheless, was satisfying.
The ending with King and Abigail felt needlessly tacked on - I don't mind that they do get a final sendoff, but, how can a vampire-werewolf hybrid exist since it should have gone the same way Blade's vampire virus went after plague had wiped them all off the face of the earth? And so werewolves are now going to be the next threat? Ridiculous.
In closing, Blade was the better novel than Blade: Trinity. But Trinity was still ultimately worth at least one read, just to find out how Blade's story comes to a close.
Regarding the story itself, again having seen the film some few years ago before I picked up the book, I had a pretty good idea of what to expect in most scenes. I will say that the author captured a lot more mood and atmosphere than I feel the film conveyed. I found Drake's thoughts and his reminiscence fairly good.
It was neat to see the vampires turn so desperate to work around Blade that they dug up Dracula. And he was everything a true vampire should have been, and then some, right down to his monstrous true form underneath the human guise. I found it a bit odd that he took on different identities in the ancient past, but not something that I could complain about.
I think Whistler's hobby of taking a nice little scroll introduced here is plot-induced-stupidity. It makes no sense to me that such a gritty, hard-as-nails man, who has preached caution so hard at Blade previously and who has lived through a hell of a lot of bad things, would be so foolish as to walk around with a casual scroll down to the seven eleven regularly. I know that they have to buy supplies somehow, and Blade himself isn't exactly ideal for that(though apparently he fences the goods collected from vampire kills or some such), but it still rubs me the wrong way.
Whistler grinding Blade's gears over killing the human bait in the early chapters is fine. But IMO, it isn't Blade's mistake there that ultimately brought things down on their heads, it was Whistler leading the FBI right to their little hideaway because he was so careless for no good reason.
And then there is Whistler's other armful of secrets - the Nightstalkers. All this time we've been lead to believe it is just Blade and Whistler making a dent in the vampires, and I was mostly okay with that. The Nightstalkers just don't do it for me. I found King moderately entertaining, and Abigail tolerable, but aside from that I didn't really *care* about these people. So when Drake came along and slaughtered the first batch(for the most part) I shrugged and kept turning pages.
And then there's another group ready and willing to step in and pick up the slack. Its this next few Nightstalkers who provide the plot-ending mcguffin, the plague virus, in an actual tangible form thanks to Sommerfield's quick thinking. Nice concept for wrapping up the threat of the vampires completely, as apparently happens by the end of the novel.
I found the new cadre of vampires who dug up Drake to be insufferable. At least whats-her-name in charge had some personality worth reading about, unlike Asher or Grimwood. I believe it was mentioned that she found out Drake existed from reading surviving scraps of the Book of Erebus, which Deacon Frost deciphered to learn about the 'blood god' from the first novel.
And speaking of Deacon Frost, his little extended background, worked in for why Blade's hybrid status came out favorably at all, felt like an unnecessary addition.
The stuff with the cops/FBI/familiars/etc was decent. Not great, but fine.
The final battle went better than I'd remembered, by which I mean Blade was able to keep up for a bit until he well and truly pissed Drake off, and then he was beaten like a ragdoll by the one true vampire Blade had ever faced. I was pleasantly surprised to see that Zoe gave Blade the brief window of opportunity to drag his hide up from the floor and stab Drake with the plague virus, and it was interesting as Drake deteriorated once the virus began to get inside of him and do its job.
What I'd like to know is how Blade was able to survive. From the state he was in at the end of that battle, he was better than halfway dead, and the vampire virus inside of his body should have died at that point, meaning he couldn't get a quick recovery from taking a blood snack. So how then does a mostly-human Blade survive so much trauma and shock? There's no mention of it. Somehow, King and Abigail hauled him out with them and got him the treatment he needed.
The ending for Blade, nevertheless, was satisfying.
The ending with King and Abigail felt needlessly tacked on - I don't mind that they do get a final sendoff, but, how can a vampire-werewolf hybrid exist since it should have gone the same way Blade's vampire virus went after plague had wiped them all off the face of the earth? And so werewolves are now going to be the next threat? Ridiculous.
In closing, Blade was the better novel than Blade: Trinity. But Trinity was still ultimately worth at least one read, just to find out how Blade's story comes to a close.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 26, 2019
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DER DAYWALKER IST ZURÜCK ... Als dem Halbvampir Blade die Schuld für eine Serie von grausamen Morden angehängt werden soll, verbündet der sich mit den so genannten Nightstalkers – einem Clan von menschlichen Vampirjägern. Mit vereinten Kräften verfolgen sie die Blutspur, die sie direkt zu einer berühmt-berüchtigten Figur einer Vampirlegende führt. Die Vampire sind fast soweit, ein uraltes Geheimnis zu lüften, das es ihnen erlauben würde, im Sonnenlicht zu bestehen. Blade muss sie unbedingt stoppen oder er riskiert die Versklavung der gesamten Menschheit.
Er ist der Daywalker. Berühmt. Berüchtigt. Geführchtet - besonders von Vampiren. Er fristet sein Leben, halb Mensch, halb Vampir, immer im Kampf gegen seine dunkle Seite und hat es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht gegen die Vampire zu kämpfen, um die Menschheit zu schützen. Doch als Vampire eine uralte Macht entfesseln scheint es einen Gegner für Blade zu geben, der unbesiegbar scheint. Außerdem geraten Blade und sein Mentor in eine Falle bei der Blade aus Versehen einen Menschen schädigt, was die Stürmung seines Verstecks und den Tod seines Freundes zur Folge hat. Doch viel Zeit zur Trauer bleibt ihm nicht. Denn Strikers Tochter und ihre Freunde haben sich als Menschen zu einem Jägerteam gegen die Vampire zusammen getan. Zusammen mit den Nightstalkers beginnt Blade mit der Jagd nach der unbekannten Macht, die die ganze Menschheit ausrotten könnte.
Als Fan von Blade und vor allem auch als Fan des dritten Teils kam ich irgendwie nicht umhin mir das Buch zu besorgen - eigentlich auch ein bisschen in der Hoffnung, dass in dem Buch vielleicht mehr beschrieben wird als im Film. Leider wurde ich dahingehend enttäuscht, denn das Buch hält sich strikt an den Film und lässt kaum Spiel für weitere Szenen, was ich wirklich schade fand. Trotzdem war es toll das Abenteuer von Blade und seinen neuen Verbündeten zu verfolgen und zu lesen. Einerseits war ich sehr begeistert von den Emotionen die hier beschrieben wurden, andererseits wusste man aber schon was passiert, was den Lesespaß für mich ungemein gemindert hat. Es war einfach nichts Besonderes mehr. Was ich mir in dem Buch vielleicht auch noch ein bisschen mehr gewünscht hätte wären mehr Details gewesen. Zwar konnte man sich durch den Film viele Szenen bereits gut vorstellen, doch um das eigene Bild entstehen zu lassen dafür haben mir einfach die Details gefehlt. Etwas schwammig fand ich im Buch auch die Darstellung von Strikers Tochter. Effektiv wurde sie im Film durch Jessica Biel so gut dargestellt, dass die Romanfigur einfach nur verblasst ist. Sie kam für mich nicht so stark zur Geltung wie im Film, was ich wirklich schade fand. Auch Blade mit seiner eigentlich richtig coolen Art zieht in dem Roman den Kürzeren, da das Feeling so nicht gut rüber kam. Eigentlich bin ich ja immer der Meinung, dass Bücher besser sind als die Filme, aber hier ist es ausnahmsweise einmal andersherum der Fall. Schade, vor allem weil ich denke, dass man hier viel mehr Potential gehabt hätte.
Empfehlen möchte ich das Buch trotzdem all denen, die gern Vampirbücher lesen und sich von dem Daywalker allgemein begeistern lassen können. Es ist eine nette Abwechslung zum Film, wenn man nicht so sehr auf Details und Neuerungen bedacht ist.
Idee: 3/5
Emotionen: 3/5
Charaktere: 3/5
Details: 3/5
Gesamt: 3/5
Taschenbuch: 300 Seiten
Verlag: Panini; Auflage: 1., Aufl. (17. Dezember 2004)
Sprache: Deutsch
ISBN-10: 3833211466
ISBN-13: 978-3833211461
Größe und/oder Gewicht: 17,8 x 12,2 x 3,6 cm
DER DAYWALKER IST ZURÜCK ... Als dem Halbvampir Blade die Schuld für eine Serie von grausamen Morden angehängt werden soll, verbündet der sich mit den so genannten Nightstalkers – einem Clan von menschlichen Vampirjägern. Mit vereinten Kräften verfolgen sie die Blutspur, die sie direkt zu einer berühmt-berüchtigten Figur einer Vampirlegende führt. Die Vampire sind fast soweit, ein uraltes Geheimnis zu lüften, das es ihnen erlauben würde, im Sonnenlicht zu bestehen. Blade muss sie unbedingt stoppen oder er riskiert die Versklavung der gesamten Menschheit.
Er ist der Daywalker. Berühmt. Berüchtigt. Geführchtet - besonders von Vampiren. Er fristet sein Leben, halb Mensch, halb Vampir, immer im Kampf gegen seine dunkle Seite und hat es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht gegen die Vampire zu kämpfen, um die Menschheit zu schützen. Doch als Vampire eine uralte Macht entfesseln scheint es einen Gegner für Blade zu geben, der unbesiegbar scheint. Außerdem geraten Blade und sein Mentor in eine Falle bei der Blade aus Versehen einen Menschen schädigt, was die Stürmung seines Verstecks und den Tod seines Freundes zur Folge hat. Doch viel Zeit zur Trauer bleibt ihm nicht. Denn Strikers Tochter und ihre Freunde haben sich als Menschen zu einem Jägerteam gegen die Vampire zusammen getan. Zusammen mit den Nightstalkers beginnt Blade mit der Jagd nach der unbekannten Macht, die die ganze Menschheit ausrotten könnte.
Als Fan von Blade und vor allem auch als Fan des dritten Teils kam ich irgendwie nicht umhin mir das Buch zu besorgen - eigentlich auch ein bisschen in der Hoffnung, dass in dem Buch vielleicht mehr beschrieben wird als im Film. Leider wurde ich dahingehend enttäuscht, denn das Buch hält sich strikt an den Film und lässt kaum Spiel für weitere Szenen, was ich wirklich schade fand. Trotzdem war es toll das Abenteuer von Blade und seinen neuen Verbündeten zu verfolgen und zu lesen. Einerseits war ich sehr begeistert von den Emotionen die hier beschrieben wurden, andererseits wusste man aber schon was passiert, was den Lesespaß für mich ungemein gemindert hat. Es war einfach nichts Besonderes mehr. Was ich mir in dem Buch vielleicht auch noch ein bisschen mehr gewünscht hätte wären mehr Details gewesen. Zwar konnte man sich durch den Film viele Szenen bereits gut vorstellen, doch um das eigene Bild entstehen zu lassen dafür haben mir einfach die Details gefehlt. Etwas schwammig fand ich im Buch auch die Darstellung von Strikers Tochter. Effektiv wurde sie im Film durch Jessica Biel so gut dargestellt, dass die Romanfigur einfach nur verblasst ist. Sie kam für mich nicht so stark zur Geltung wie im Film, was ich wirklich schade fand. Auch Blade mit seiner eigentlich richtig coolen Art zieht in dem Roman den Kürzeren, da das Feeling so nicht gut rüber kam. Eigentlich bin ich ja immer der Meinung, dass Bücher besser sind als die Filme, aber hier ist es ausnahmsweise einmal andersherum der Fall. Schade, vor allem weil ich denke, dass man hier viel mehr Potential gehabt hätte.
Empfehlen möchte ich das Buch trotzdem all denen, die gern Vampirbücher lesen und sich von dem Daywalker allgemein begeistern lassen können. Es ist eine nette Abwechslung zum Film, wenn man nicht so sehr auf Details und Neuerungen bedacht ist.
Idee: 3/5
Emotionen: 3/5
Charaktere: 3/5
Details: 3/5
Gesamt: 3/5
Taschenbuch: 300 Seiten
Verlag: Panini; Auflage: 1., Aufl. (17. Dezember 2004)
Sprache: Deutsch
ISBN-10: 3833211466
ISBN-13: 978-3833211461
Größe und/oder Gewicht: 17,8 x 12,2 x 3,6 cm
March 16, 2020
An enjoyably and cheesy, but slightly long novelization to a goofy action movie. If you wanted more actual Blade scenes, the novel provides a bit more of him than aren't focused on his back.
July 17, 2015
Very well done. Expands the Blade story and adds to the mythos. Compelling comic book thrills.
December 16, 2010
to much detail
January 18, 2010
Fantastic description proceeding a great movie performance.
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