Read The Silver Kiss (1992)

What do You think about The Silver Kiss (1992)?

Keep in mind that this book was first published in 1992. How this thing never turned into a lawsuit I'll never understand.Stop me if you've heard this one:Male vampire, young, skin like marble, pale, ice cold, gorgeous, strange speech, stalker, falls in love with somebody before he got to know her, strange hair color...Female human, socially awkward, no mother or father around, lives with her dad, pretty but nobody seems to notice, likes stalkers, doesn't think it's strange when beautiful boys hang out in the middle of the night around her house...Parts like "I've waited centuries for you", the only car brand that's mentioned is Volvo,...*is disgusted*Anyway, all the fuckery aside... It was a very quick read and the story felt a bit rushed. It could have been a lot better. I'm giving it 3 stars cause it was entertaining, but that's probably thanks to the 329 déjà vus I had.
—Kim

I first read this book when I was 15, less than a year after the death of my mother from a heart attack. The isolation that Zoe experiences as she deals with her mother's impending death from cancer spoke volumes to me.As an adult rereading an old favorite, I wish that I could capture that first fascination with the text again. Listening to it as an audiobook drew my attention to Klause's stylistic choices as a writer that I might have ignored if I were reading it on paper.I still really like this book, but now I can easily see that it is a first published novel. There are moments of brilliance and moments of extreme awkwardness. (Sometimes, as with Simon's observations of the city, they're the same moment.) Overall, I still have to think that Klause made several brave choices in this book, and that Zoe's emotions as she watches her mother die are some of the most realistic that I've read in YA fiction.
—Nan

Zoe is wary when, in the dead of night, the beautiful yet frightening Simon comes to her house. Simon seems to understand the pain of loneliness and death and Zoe's brooding thoughts of her dying mother. Simon is one of the undead, a vampire, seeking revenge for the gruesome death of his mother three hundred years before. Does Simon dare ask Zoe to help free him from this lifeless chase and its insufferable loneliness?Hmmm... after reading Blood and Chocolate, I was expecting this one to be almost as good, but unfortunately, it didn't live up to those expectations. There were times I found it a bit tedious, if only because there was less action than I usually like. But that's definitely a personal preference as I'm not one for the more introspective novels. Okay, now I'm not saying this was an introspective novel, just that it was more so than Blood and Chocolate. It seemed that at times the author was trying to get an important life lesson across to her teen readers, which is kind of where I was going with that comment.Anyway, now that I got that out of the way, this book did have it's good points as well. The author was able to evoke a good deal of sympathy in me for Zoe's character and her situation. And her reaching out to the Vampire when she felt like she had no one else to turn to was touching. It was even kind of sad at the end...
—Cherie