REVIEW: The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause

by Avid Reader on July 9, 2006

in Book Reviews, Fantasy, Save the Trees, Teen Fiction

The Sil­ver Kiss by Annette Cur­tis Klause has left me ambiva­lent. I had to read/skim to the end. It deals with loss and lone­li­ness among other things. This is a YA novel and I guess I was really want­ing some­thing as cap­ti­vat­ing as by Stephe­nie Meyer. Thus, it’s my own fault this novel didn’t work com­par­ing it to a novel that I just couldn’t put down.

Our pro­tag­o­nist is 16-year old Zoe and her mother is dying from can­cer. Her father often excludes her or just ignores her and spends most of his time at the hos­pi­tal. Zoe has no real friends to turn to or share her feel­ings with and the one friend she does have doesn’t know how to com­fort her. Zoe feels alone and wants so badly to talk with her father but even he shuts her out. Enter Simon. A vam­pire who has been search­ing for his mother’s super­nat­ural killer. He stalks the streets, look­ing for prey, leav­ing bod­ies behind and ter­ror­iz­ing the com­mu­nity. He’s a mon­ster and makes no bones about it.

At a point in time Simon and Zoe meet. They strike up a friend­ship since they seem to be kin­dred spir­its. There’s a lot of intro­spec­tion and child­hood angst from Zoe deal­ing with her mother’s death. Then there’s Simon and his lone­li­ness and weari­ness. This is where I stopped read­ing and skimmed. I’d heard a lot of good things about Ms. Klause and have Blood and Choco­late in my TBR. Has any­one read this book? I plan to keep it and give it another go but right now, I find it rather bor­ing and will assign it a DNF. I could and did put this book down and could for­get it. I still want to read Blood and Choco­late one day soon.

For Fur­ther Reading

{ 18 comments… read them below or add one }

patrick August 11, 2009 at 6:48 pm

PTM creo que soy el unico boludo que eata escri­bi­endo esto ‚che este libro es el mejor de tos los que e leido

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mikaela September 18, 2008 at 5:21 am

the sil­ver kiss is one of the sad­dest books i’ve read and i do not rec­om­mend any­one read­ing new moon if they are an edward cullen fan. but i do rec­om­mend read­ing blood and choco­late even though it is quite sad it has a happy end­ing unlike the sil­ver kiss so sad :’(

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samorn mean September 5, 2008 at 1:45 am

i like this book and everything..except for the ending…because it is sad .…i wish..the author write a sequal for this book..i would love to read it.hehe

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belle July 18, 2008 at 8:12 pm

i’ve read it and i found it is so very beau­ti­ful story

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belle July 18, 2008 at 8:10 pm

this “the sil­ver kiss“is the one i choose for my home read­ing report

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Andrea May 24, 2008 at 2:02 am

I’ve read Sil­ver Kiss and Blood Choco­late. I like this book, but after read­ing the whole Twi­light series by Stephanie Meyer, there was no com­par­i­son. Sil­ver kiss were miss­ing info and expla­na­tions about the vam­pire cul­ture. But I still enjoyed the book, actu­ally, I enjoy every vam­pire book–I think i’m a vam­pire freak– LOL any­ways… its a good read.

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kayla October 26, 2007 at 9:58 pm

i have read this book its been a while but it gets rilly bor­ing for a while then rilly inter­rest­ing but you have to read every part to fig­ure out the end i dont want to ruin any parts but it is sad at the end:-(.

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ANM April 13, 2007 at 8:27 am

Per­son­ally, I love The sil­ver Kiss. It’s my favorite book. I don’t really agree with some of the things said in this arti­cle but that is your opinion.

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Josh February 28, 2007 at 3:24 pm

I read Blood and Choco­late like 6–7 times in a week. I heard about Sil­ver Kiss, and I guess I am going to read it. If Klause is as good as she nor­mally is, should be a good one.

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Kiara Burgos February 10, 2007 at 6:00 pm

I recomens every­body to read the book sil­ver kiss…Is the mosy exited book i have ever read!!!!!!!!

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stacey kozich July 29, 2006 at 11:44 pm

If you are look­ing for a great YA novel to read, you should Alex McAulay’s new novel, LOST SUMMER. It’s being turned into a film by MTV, as is Alex’ first novel, BAD GIRLS. They are both intense and very compelling!

P.S. I love your blog!

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AAR Rachel July 10, 2006 at 3:11 pm

although I dis­agree with your review of KGS’s lat­est book

Sorry you didn’t care for it — esp. as it was a hard­cover. I wish she wasn’t going in the WF direc­tion myself, though I’ll con­tinue to read her (and that’s say­ing some­thing, as I really can’t read Gaffney any­more among oth­ers). Know what I want? That cir­cus book. Just know­ing it’s in a drawer some­where with no one read­ing it…v. frus­trat­ing. What a waste. Why can’ t pub­lish­ers pub­lish good stuff instead of only mar­ketable stuff?

Here in Michi­gan, this is the best time of year, so I really don’t want to rush it along, but I’m also wait­ing for August and the release of the sec­ond sea­son of Veron­ica Mars!!! I want it, want it, want it! Hurry August 22!

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Jane July 10, 2006 at 2:12 pm

Hmm, if AAR Rachel says it is so.… I will have to get that book too. You have rarely steered me wrong, R (although I dis­agree with your review of KGS’s lat­est book).

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Avid Reader July 10, 2006 at 1:26 pm

Thanks Rachel, I will pull that one out of the TBR pile. Thanks.

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AAR Rachel July 10, 2006 at 12:55 pm

All three of Klause’s other books — Alien Secrets, Sil­ver Kiss, and the newest, Freaks — have been DNF for me. But Blood and Choco­late is def­i­nitely a keeper. Gabriel, the were love inter­est in that one is sssssssmokin’ hot.

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Jane July 10, 2006 at 9:56 am

The only rea­son that I am hop­ing for July to get over and August to hurry up and come is for the arrival of New Moon. I CAN’T WAIT. Really. have even con­tem­plated spend­ing the $150.00 for an arc on ebay but man­aged to talk myself down off that crazy ledge.

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Avid Reader July 10, 2006 at 8:52 am

You need to dig Twi­light out of your TBR pile and read it. Seri­ously. I reread the end­ing yes­ter­day and can’t wait to get my hands on New Moon. I’ll dig out Blood and Choco­late. As for com­par­i­son, the only sim­i­lar­ity between Twi­light and The Sil­ver Kiss is that both heroes are vampires…

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jmc July 9, 2006 at 8:36 pm

Haven’t read this one. Klause’s Alien Secrets was okay, I thought. Blood and Choco­late is a keeper for me. Twlight is still TBR, so I can’t really com­pare them.

~jmc

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