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| Vampire Kisses 2: Kissing Coffins | 
 enlarge | Author: Ellen Schreiber
Publisher: HarperTeen
Category: Book
List Price: $5.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 23057
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.4 x 4.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 0060776242
EAN: 9780060776244
ASIN: 0060776242
Publication Date: May 1, 2007
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Product Description
Not far from Dullsville, someone's lurking in the dark. . . . After meeting the handsome and shadowy Alexander Sterling, goth-girl Raven's dark world has a bright, new glow. But as in her favorite movie, Kissing Coffins, Raven knows that love always has its complications, especially when Alexander has a big secret to guard. When Alexander suddenly disappears, Raven leaves Dullsville to begin a dangerous search to find him. Can she stay safe, no matter who—or what—she encounters on the way?
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| Customer Reviews: Read 39 more reviews...
 a good book October 24, 2008
16 year old Goth girl Raven has just received the shock of her life. Her boyfriend from Romania is a real live vampire. Now she is struggling with a big decision. Does she want to leave behind her normal life to become a cool ghoul? Spend her days in a coffin, and never be able to see her reflection? She hopes to be able to find Alexander at the coffin club. Instead she finds his nemesis! Now everything's gone completely insane. See what happens next in Kissing Coffins!
It will get your interest very fast. It's so good you'll probably be upset when you have to stop reading it. I thought the book was great. It's very romantic. Most people would like it in my opinion; although not the most creative, it really makes up for itself in other ways such as the humor.
Buy more than one of the books in this series at a time because they are rather small, though. If you have not read the first book here is a link:
Vampire Kisses
 The author has absolutely no credibility... October 23, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
When an author proves that she has not done her research, especially on a book's primary theme, she tells me that she has no credibility as an author and can rest assured I will never recommend a book written by her.
Raven's "gothic music taste" consists of Good Charlotte and Evanescence - both bands pop-rock, without any affiliation with the gothic subculture whatsoever.
By this tidbit, it becomes obvious that Ellen Schreiber relied on stereotypes and urban myths to create her series. Sadly enough, she's extended it into a series after the awful Vampire Kisses...
I noticed in a later edition that her "music taste" was revised into "Bauhaus, Korn and Marilyn Manson." Kudos for Bauhaus, this was probably only after a million letters complaining about how inaccurate she was. But alas, the Korn/Manson stereotype comes out again.
The moral of the story is, if an author cannot take the time out of her day to research a topic, she shouldn't be PUBLISHING BOOKS ABOUT THINGS SHE DOESN'T KNOW.
The end.
 >.< July 23, 2008
The story keeps getting better and better. I am already in the fourth one and I cant seem to keep the characters out of my head. I love it and Raven is amazing along with the great Sterling.
*snort* May 17, 2008
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
Please, please tell me this is a parody of the already laughable vampire romance genre. I could barely get through Stephanie Meyer's /Twilight/ without rolling my eyes, but this almost made me physically ill. Imagine a Harlequin romance meets the worst of Laurell K. Hamilton, witten by an emo 13 year old girl, and you might get an idea of what /Kissing Coffins/ is like.
Syntactially speaking, it was a snore. Very little variation in sentence structure or voice, and I would've found the vocabulary interesting somewhere in junior high. The author frequently name-drops goth culture icons (Hot Topic, Edward Scissorhands, Marilyn Manson, etc) like anvils, without any real effect, beyond proving herself to be a clueless wannabe.
Now, let's move on to the heroine, Raven (both the color of her flowing, silky tresses and deep soul): can you say Mary Sue? She never does anything wrong. She's always sweet, kind, and caring. Every non-attached male even remotely close to her own age (and one that isn't) falls hard for her; immediately. I mean, she's got the oh-so-pretty captain of the soccer team, her Gothic Guy, and a creepy, semi-insane vampire all dueling for her affection. And she claims to be such an outcast! Woe is her.
And of course there's the Love Intrest. Goth Emo Vampire Artist, Sterling. Her Gothic Guy (she actually calls him this), her Dark Knight. When he and Raven aren't staring soulfully into each other's eyes and professing their undying love for the fifth time that chapter, they're pining because fate hath cruelly parted them.
I've read hundreds of different books, which have inspired hundreds of different emotions in me: love, hatred, fear, grief, joy, and exhiliration. This one left me with only nausea.
just as good as the first. May 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
they are back together and i'm so happy. the end made go out and buy the 3rd and 4th books i can't wait to read then and see what luna is up to.
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