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As a born and raised Melbourne girl, it was great to be able to relate to the locations in this book. This city has definite eccentricities that only emerge after dark, and all manner of delights await down our famous city laneways. Would love to see it as a television series!


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The Opposite of Life Narrelle M Harris 9780975112922 Books Reviews

For me, there are three kinds of books books I don't like, books I like and books I like so much that I can't wait to push them on my friends saying, "You HAVE to read this!" The Opposite of Life? Well, that goes in the last category. I've put off sending an overseas package because one of my friends has to read this book so I'm giving her a print copy.

I'm not usually a vampire novel kind of woman, but when a wonderfully sweet man sitting at the Pulp Fiction Press table at Conflux writers conference talked about Narrelle M. Harris and her book, I couldn't help but put it on my must read list. And I am so glad I did.

From the very beginning, I was sucked into Lissa's world and nearly finished the book in one sitting. Her straight-forward - slightly babbling in the beginning - way of talking to the reader amused me and immediately made me feel relaxed with her as the person I'd be spending the next 200+ pages with.

I love that Narrelle explores the temptation of eternal life without making it too sappy or romanticised. Lissa's temptation is real. Her doubts and back-and-forth mindset were true to life and only made me identify with her more. Her thoughts are gritty, spattered with doubt, a bit sassy a times and utterly the thoughts of someone I feel I could meet in reality. She has done a superb job in not only her creation of Lissa but of Gary and other characters as well.

I have a soft spot for stories set in Melbourne because I've been to the suburbs and around the city. However, Narrelle keeps a good setting exactly where it should be - the background. The setting enriches the story but never overwhelms it.

I recommend this book to everyone - even if you're not a vampire fan. Narrelle's approach to everything from vampire biology to dispelling common vampire myths is refreshing.
Melbourne is one of the planet's most liveable cities, even for vampires! Ms Harris hands both to the reader in a highly enjoyable package. This is an authentic modern Australian voice, urban and very Melbourne. Through this entire murder mystery romp Lissa (a librarian with parent problems) is faced with mourning and loss, drug abuse, senior techno fear, nerds and of course, very believable vampires. The reader cannot be both touched and amused by it all. I read this novel over two days and hated it when I finished, I wanted more. If you don't love Lissa and Gary there's something wrong with you. This novel is indeed an affirmation of life in all its complexities and ordinariness.
Prepare to have all your favourite vampire myths debunked! In The Opposite of Life by Narrelle Harris, you’ll meet a plucky librarian, Lissa, and Gary, a vampire whose fashion sense goes no further than garish Hawaiian shirts.

Harris’s novel is set in Melbourne and it’s lovely to read her depiction of a town she obviously knows so well. The detail she includes about the Melbourne streets will appeal to Australian readers and particularly those from Melbourne, but I wondered if it would hold the same appeal to non-locals – I suspect in the end those details will necessarily be glossed over by them but the settings will still be very effective.

“The night I went dancing with Evie I found two girls on the floor of the ladies’ loos, with their throats ripped out.”

This is a great opening line and what follows will make you laugh as self-absorbed Lissa bemoans how this is just typical of the stuff that happens to her – get dumped, mope, go out and find dead bodies. Harris’s depiction of Lissa and her turn of phrase had me laughing a lot. There is a really appealing dark humour to this novel blended with some lovely poignant moments.

Lissa has the wondrous fortune of getting over being dumped by meeting a young goth guy and the potential is there for “true love” – or at least that's her hope, until he is killed. Determined to find out who is ruining her life (it’s all about her at this stage) and who is killing people around her, Lissa undertakes her own investigations. This is how she meets Gary – the "daggy vamp" with a penchant for Hawaiian shirts. The development of both these characters is excellent.

A vampire in Hawaiian shirts – yep Harris chucks several vampire stereotypes out of the window and I love it. There are no tall dark and handsome, brooding vampires to take your breath away and romance you. They range from creepy stalker types, arrogant toffs, through to your ancient predatory (utterly unappealing) ones.

Occasionally I wanted the pacing of the novel to pick up, but really those moments were few and far between. There are no plot surprises about who is the bad guy or where the plot is heading. However, I found that neither of these mattered, because what I was enjoying was the development of the friendship between Lissa and Gary. Gary's friendship with a human makes him different to other vampires and sparks some fundamental changes within him.

There is an underlying theme with the work about the importance of social connections and what it means to be human - it was this that really carried the story for me.

Four Stars
this was a joy to read , engaging opening , interesting likeable protagonist with a great sense of humor , plot that unfolded briskly with action , suspense and intrigue , and one which ended well , I be starting the next book immediately - well done !
Well written novel, set in Melbourne Australia. On the face of it this is a vampire novel with some unique and interesting views of what being a vampire is about. For me though, this was an an excellent book about grief. The main character loses her brother and sister before the novel starts, and is still struggling with this loss throughout the novel.
As a born and raised Melbourne girl, it was great to be able to relate to the locations in this book. This city has definite eccentricities that only emerge after dark, and all manner of delights await down our famous city laneways. Would love to see it as a television series!