Fevre Dream

Gave up at 13%.

Wasn't for me. I wonder if I have been unlucky with picking books this year or if I just feel more comfortable with DNFing books now

Not a lot of horror, unsure what I would label this as, historical featuring vampires? If you want a scary book, this is not it.

It was slow getting started, it was slow all over to be honest and a rushed dull ending.

I gave up after two hours, the n-word is just used too much. It's not like this was written in 1857, this was 1982. Even if you want to be historically accurate you could just use it in the dialog, but no, even the descriptions use it.

Vampires. Steamboats. George RR Martin's prose. What's not to like?

I'm not a huge fan of vampire novels, but I did like this one. It caught a sense of the time and history very well, and while it was a little fantastical at times, I still enjoyed it.

It's not a classic like ASOI&F, but it's not horrible, either.

I wanted to see what GRRM could write besides Game of Thones, since I felt that book was lacking in the plot/epicness department. Wild Cards is a collection of stories by different authors, so that did not help me.

Fevre Dream is a book about steam boats in 1857 America. Martin certainly gave a lot of though and made a thorough research into the subject. So if you like steam boats and 19th century Louisiana slavery issues, this might be the book for you.

Captain Marsh is by the way very well fleshed out, precisely what I expected from Martin.

Read 2:38/13:48 19&

Interesting take on the vampire genre, but it just did not move quickly enough.

Le mythe du vampire revisité en 1982 par l'auteur de Game of Thrones, dans le cadre envoutant des bateaux à vapeur du Mississippi, dans l'Amérique des années précédant la Guerre de Sécession. Un peu longuet par moment, mais envoutant.