Van Helsing

van Helsing is the best book a vampire-hunter fan could read! I personally enjoyed every word of this book and I am extatic that such a book was published! If you love reading about vampires and the gallant people who hunt them then it is a requirement that you read this book!

Gabriel Van Helsing was the most wanted man in Europe. Some called him a murderer and yet others a holy man. For he wandered the world on his mission to track down and eliminate the most profound metaphysical evil and perversion. And in this mission the laws of mankind meant little to him. Yet not even Van Helsing himself knew his true identity. Indeed, he had no memory beyond the night seven years before when he crawled broken and bleeding through the gates of the Vatican. It was on that night that the Knights of the Holy Order admitted him to their secret brotherhood. And so he became the legend, Van Helsing, trained by monks and mullahs from Tibet to Istanbul. Now, seven years later he has finally been summoned to enter Transylvania, the focus of supernatural Evil in the world. He has been sent to find and destroy Count Dracula, son of Satan, Prince of the Earth, and sworn enemy of human kind. For Dracula has made unholy alliance with the greatest scientific mind of his day, Victor Von Frankenstein- and secret of the life force itself would soon be at the service of the King of the Undead and his unholy spawn. I have not seen the film that this novel is based upon, but by itself this is one of the best supernatural fictions that I have read in years. The writing is tight and skillful- especially the action scenes. This is a big step above the usual quality of movie novelizations.

I really enjoyed this novel. The writer has a very vivid grasp on his audience and what they enjoy. Within this novel, Van Helsing makes a life of chasing monsters. Anything from werewolves to vampires. Van Helsing is a mysterious character even to himself. He doesn't remember his beginnings, but he finds out when he meets Count Dracula. The Frankenstein monster is finally given his just place in fiction. Never a dull paragraph, this writer keeps you reading and entertained. You gotta' read it!

Very interesting and hard to put down. It really helps you understand the movie better.

A terrific book!I saw and liked the movie and went out to buy the book, and was very impressed by Kevin Ryan's ability to take all that was good about the movie and make it great on the page. He expanded many of the scenes, further developed character, added extra humor, kept up the pace, and never let go of my interest. There was extra fascinating stuff about Frankenstein and about Anna's relationship with Velkan that I particularly liked. A wonderfully rendered, exciting novelization that is so rich it reads like a novel. Highly recommended.