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| Prom Nights from Hell | 
 enlarge | Manufacturer: HarperCollins e-books
Category: EBooks
List Price: $7.99
Buy New: $6.39
You Save: $1.60 (20%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 4745
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B0014H329E
Publication Date: March 4, 2008
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 Entertaining but not great April 16, 2008
It is what it is, an anthology of short stories. With that being said, I really enjoyed Stephenie Meyer's story "Hell on Earth." It was an interesting concept; angels, highschool deamons, and mischief galore. The only story that I wasn't to fond of was Meg Cabot's "The Exterminator's Daughter." It seemed alittle like Buffy the Vampire slayer, a concept that is slightly overdone. Maybe it's just me but I once read an article about Meg Cabot and how she didn't like the Twilight series, calling them antifeminist. So I'm not sure if her story was kind of meant to mock the Twilight series and Stephenie Meyer? So that was alittle awkward to read.
The other stories were good quick reads. This is a book you should borrow and read, then just pass it along.
On a side note: right now I'm reading the "Uglies" series and so far it's been great. Definitely give those books a try.
It was pretty good... March 19, 2008
Well, I'm not really familiar with any of these authors beside Stephenie Meyer (and I love her - I'm addicted to the Twilight saga). I mean, I've heard of most of these authors from somewhere or another, but I've never read anything by them before. That being said, I might be a little biased towards Stephenie...just a little though.
The book, over all, was pretty good. I wasn't blown away. And like some other people have said, the stories were all really open-ended. So, here are my individual review for each story:
"The Exterminator's Daughter" by Meg Cabot and "The Corsage" by Lauren Myracle (I put them together because I have the same comments about for both of them): I give them three stars. I found both of these stories a bit cliche - kind of been-there-done-that...nothing new. Everything was pretty predictable.
"Madison Avery and the Dim Reaper" by Kim Harrison and "Kiss and Tell" by Michele Jaffe: I give them four stars. There was some pretty good action and somethings that I didn't expect to happen.
"Hell on Earth" by Stephenie Meyer: I give it five stars. And I don't think I'm being THAT biased. The story was simpler than "Madison Avery and the Dim Reaper" and "Kiss and Tell" but all the pieces fit together very well. I was impressed.
There...that's my review. Hope it helped! :)
 This book is really good. February 25, 2008
If you've read Twilight or are in to horror/romance. You will most likely enjoy this book. Because I loved it. I wish that they would write another.
Good, but needs closure January 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm a large fan of taking normal events and adding a fantastic/supernatural twist. For this reason I loved the idea and the majority of this book.
However, since it's a short story collection I don't think it should have been as open-ended as it was. Meg Cabot, although alluding to events coming in the future, ended the story. The Corsage was ended too. The other three however, were too much like book previews. If you write for a short story collection, write a short story. Granted, these authors are used to the novel and that could be the reason, but "Dim Reaper" dumped a lot of information and left you hanging. "Kiss and Tell" could have ended but threw in a cliche "she's a princess" twist and Hell on Earth was almost there. Almost
Still, I did enjoy the concept.
ok, but Michele Jaffe's story was wonderful October 30, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I would love to read much more about Miranda AND Sibby from Michele Jaffe's "Kiss and Tell". I became thoroughly engaged by her characters and I was completely disappointed when the story ended: plenty of material to continue this as a novel. Stephanie Meyer's story was interesting, but the rest were just not as good as I would expect from those authors. This is a "check out of the library" book, I'm sorry to say.
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