The Season of Risks

by Susan Hubbard

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439183422
• ISBN13: 9781439183427
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

The best Ethical Vampire book yet

Ariella Montero wants to grow up. It doesn't matter that she could easily pass for someone in her early twenties despite being in her mid teens. Ari wants to actually be older. It may have to do with Ari's secret relationship with Neil Cameron, third-party presidential candidate and vampire. In the human world, their apparent age difference would ruin Cameron's political career. Ari fancies herself in love, and that Cameron is one of the few things that matters. Maybe that's why Ari decides to take Septimal, a miracle drug that irreversibly ages a vampire a fixed amount of years. And that's when everything falls apart. This third installment in Hubbard's Ethical Vampire series is by far the most complicated and confusing. From reader this novel's prequels, The Society of S and The Year of Disappearances, I grew accustomed to reading about Ari growing up with a side serving of vampire danger. The Season of Risks begins in much the same way but then suddenly takes a drastic turn in the second part of the book. It's very subtle at first that I didn't notice it so when its effects are revealed, I was completely baffled because I had no idea what was going on. Catching up was difficult as well because Hubbard has a habit of dropping random characters and picking them back up later in the story. Strangely, though, despite my immense confusion, The Season of Risks has been my favorite Ethical Vampire novel so far. The way Hubbard organized the plot is completely clever. I not know not to doubt Hubbard's great writing because following through with reading the particularly twisted excerpts is very rewarding. The Ethical Vampire series will be enjoyed by those who liked Twilight by Stephenie Meyer but also appreciate a higher sense of intellect. I hope Hubbard plans to continue Ari's story, and I'd snatch up the next installment in an instant.

Lyrical, well-written and impossible to put down ...

Third in the series, and I think the best yet. I enjoy a good story that keeps me guessing and that I find difficult to put down until I reach the end. You can count on Susan Hubbard to include several unexpected and imaginative turns to the story. I was sad to reach the last page of this book... I love visiting Ari's world and eagerly look forward to the 4th ethical vampire novel. Please Susan - I want to know what happens next!

riveting hybrid investigative urban fantasy

Ari Montero is a hybrid half vampire who played an instrumental part in finding her mother and bringing her back to her home where she reconnected with her family. Being a hybrid she has yet to find out what powers of a vampire she will eventually have. Like most of the Sanguinist sect of vampire, Ari and her family drink artificial blood; unlike the Colonists and Nebulists who see humans as chattel while the latter believes the species will become extinct. Although Ari has the body of a fifteen years old, she is twenty-one and involved in a relationship with Senator Neal Cameron who as an independent has a real chance to be elected president; he also belongs to no sect. They keep their relationship quiet because of Ari's official age. She allows Dr. Roche, a vampire, to inject her with the synthetic growth hormone Septinal. She soon looks like she is older, but someone shows her true birth certificate saying she is only fifteen to the media; destroying Cameron's election chances. She is unaware that Roche is cloning people and inhabitant them with spirits. Ari and company bring Roche before COVE (Council of Vampire Ethics) to accuse him of illegal experiments but he turns the table around and accuses Ari and her family of heinous criminal activity. He insists they pulled the strings and defending themselves is not easy because they destroyed the evidence. Susan Hubbard's wonderful vampire tale will appeal to fans of vampire lovers who love their vamps portrayed as another species most of whom are good and live like humans except at mealtimes. As a half human who is ignorant of what her extrasensory abilities will be since hybrids rarely exist, Ari must learn them while the heat is on. Her energy is invigorating as she discovers by trial and error what she can do. With a political sexual subplot that is very realistically portrayed, readers will enjoy Ari's coming of age enthralling and riveting hybrid investigative urban fantasy. Harriet Klausner