Reviews

Van Helsing by Kevin Ryan

cyanide_latte's review

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

As far as "movies made purely for fun" go, this one ranks high among my favorites, and I'm glad I was finally able to hunt down a copy of the novelization! It's nice to see how Kevin Ryan handled it, and I think he did an excellent job of enriching and adding to the story~. So glad to have this in my collection now!

shakiral's review against another edition

adventurous emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Found myself hoping this author had written The Cronicles of Riddick, because this was so good, it actually gave more depth to the characters.

sailor_moon239's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

lucy_qhuay's review against another edition

3.0

This wasn't a great book, but Van Helsing is the best vampire movie ever made, in my modest opinion, so of course I would read it.

That being said, I really enjoyed the insight into the minds of characters like Anna Valerious, the Frankenstein monster, Carl and even Dracula and his brides.

I only wish it hadn't ended the way it did. I will never recover from that.

samleigh's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

3.5

wombat_88's review against another edition

adventurous dark lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

fantasticmrethan's review against another edition

3.0

Some authors of novelisations have a real blast retelling the story and I just feel like this one fell a bit flat for me. Still a great story and well told in parts. Just could have been more.

christina_34's review against another edition

3.0

I liked the movie and when I saw that I wanted to read it. It was a good read. It gives you another perspective of the story.
I liked Dracula already but I loved him more through the book. Van Helsing is somewhat more stern and melancholic than I imagined him, Anna has a thing for "not letting the others down", Carl is so cute and the brides, who I really liked in the movie, are bimbos.
I would recomend it to those who enjoyed the film.

g0rbash's review against another edition

4.0

There was not much different from the movie in this novelization. I enjoyed it as much as I did the movie. Very quick read.

paulopaperbooksonly's review

1.0

A poor execution of a poor movie. I expect when reading books that are based on a movie that they gave something more that book didn't. I really don't understand why I start reading this novel since I didn't enjoy the movie but 6 or 7 ago is a long time ago....

Why should you read this book?
1. If you like the movie, I won't advice you but...
2. If you like to suffer.
3. If you like to criticise.

Go read Frankenstein or Dracula!