Day For Night edition by Stacey E Bryan Literature Fiction eBooks
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"What I wasn’t expecting was to turn the corner and find my thirty-something neighbor Annie, eyes open, silent, encased by a cone of light and suspended in midair just inside the doorway. Nope. Wasn’t expecting that at all."
Wacky, off-beat, delicious, witty, and insightful -- all words used to describe Stacey E. Bryan’s hilarious debut novel, Day for Night.
When reality TV star Rae is dumped by her back-stabbing cast mates, she quickly realizes that revenge fantasies and unemployment are the least of her problems after she witnesses an alien abduction in broad daylight. And it doesn’t help that a vampire knocks on her door soon afterward. All Rae wants to do is buy a condo in Hermosa Beach. How can an unemployed wannabe actress save the world…or at the very least, Los Angeles?
Mix vampires, an alien invasion, and an unemployed actor. Stir with wit and insight to get this wacky and smart science fiction fantasy novel from Stacey E. Bryan. Think Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy for the West Coast celebrity-set, but with touching vulnerability in the leading lady and sharp insight into 21st Century American culture.
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Day For Night edition by Stacey E Bryan Literature Fiction eBooks
"Day for Night" proved to be just what I was looking for in the way of an offbeat and clever story. And it is so much more. I think Stacey Bryan is onto something with the misadventures of her thirty-something Rae, a woman looking for love and sometimes finding more than she can handle. But love risks taking a backseat to alien abductions and vampires! Bryan finds a way to mix romance and the supernatural into quite a page-turner.As I'm sure that Bryan would like to point out, don't get too caught up in genre labels. While there is more than enough to satisfy romance and horror readers, it's important to note that this is solid read through and through and will appeal to just about any reader. Bryan brings a level of literary quality that results in a very engaging and highly accessible read.
There's a lighthearted vibe running throughout but that doesn't mean that Bryan does not go deeper. You'll find an amazing array of characters and a level of depth that will resonate and stay with you.
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Day For Night edition by Stacey E Bryan Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Nice, flavorful slice of LA life on the fringes of fame with aliens and vampires thrown in.
Dam Stac, great story!
This is perhaps one of the best examples of the maxim "don't judge a book by its cover." The plot, having to do with aliens and vampires and an out-of-work reality TV star, seems like the stuff of the trashy tabloids at the grocery store checkout. But after getting a few pages in, one begins to realize that there’s a ton of depth and quality writing on each page – a cornucopia of keen observations about individual behavior, culture and lifestyles, as well as explorations of the main character’s internal thoughts, all presented with a unique mix of seriousness, nonchalance, depth and dry humor. The author consistently goes a level or two deeper than most writers in describing a given experience, which kept me reading long past the time that I would say that I was going to set the book down for the night. “Day for Night” is what I imagine would result if Joan Didion watched a Quentin Tarantino remake of a 60s sci-fi B movie and decided to turn it into a great literature. Definitely worth the read!
Just reading the blurb will tell you that this isn't your everyday vampire/alien-abduction/reality-show mashup. No, this one is funny (not just "clever") and smart (not just "witty") and a lot of fun to read. You won't guess where it's going and it won't waste your time or insult your intelligence. So go ahead, expand your horizons. And you'll have found a new author to love.
Never quite read anything like it! Wryly intelligent, absurdist humor that frequently lead me into fits of laughter and recognition of universal human foibles! Would love to see this as a movie.
Stacey Bryan’s DAY FOR NIGHT evokes the Media Center/Reality Show culture imaginatively in all its pettiness, velocity, and comic vociferousness. A world of pseudo celebrities, amok with aliens, vampires (including a Tyra Banks lookalike), consciousness-raisers, physical therapists, a helpful landlord, and many other characters seems made for a television adaptation. In fact, this book’s sardonic style reminds me of the cable TV show SHAMELESS.
Some of the reviews posted here I agree with, especially the one that describes the heroine Rae as a flawed character that goes on without complaining about her mishaps - even big ones like having a shark bite off your fingers - not to mention having your date try to drive a stake through your heart. The absence of Rae’s fingers gives her unwanted attention and sympathy from people. (Might gnawed-off fingers be a heightened symbol of biting one’s nails in the frantic world of today?) She quietly suffers in a whirl of chaos, deprivation, anger, drink, physical pain, and missing laundry. Yet she keeps loving, lusting, trying to register for college courses, and being kind to people by baking cookies and taking care of strange alien children. Her brand of courage is new.
Imagination wells throughout this book. For example, when Rae goes on a date with her physical therapist, her bad knee threatens to buckle as she swoons. This triggers an interior yelling-match between Rae and her knee. (Reminds me of Shakespeare’s CORIOLANUS, in which a senator jokingly makes a stomach smile and speak.) This is one angry knee!
Here’s a favorite passage from the book. Rae admits to herself that she is in denial. (p. 128) “And then I couldn’t forget regret, either, denial’s make-out partner. Lately, shock and denial had been engaging in extreme PDA in my life, locking together in a contortionist’s embrace. Usually regret and denial were the ones that were eternally engaged, never marrying, but so alike in their uselessness that it was just easier to stay together. But now that big-headed monsters were kidnapping folks in broad daylight and doing God knows what with them…I was ready to listen again, or have someone listen to me. […] I just wanted somebody else—anybody else—to share in the terror with me so I didn’t feel so alone. An aloneness surpassing Sherman Oaks.”
A favorite scene is after a consciousness-raising meeting where the leader gives the participants new names. One he dubs Impotent. Then Rae is given a special name. (p. 133) “Then Riot, Attention, and Jilted burst into laughter. Boom remained stern, an island of male reason surrounded by the swirling eddies of female whimsicality. ‘Bob would like to see you after the meeting, which has now concluded,’ said Boom, looking at me. ‘Bob? Bob who, the director?’ asked Jilted. She looked impressed. Everyone fought their way out of the big yellow chairs and eventually managed to stand up.”
Sometimes genuine and subtle beauty glimmers in this perverse universe. An alien, vampire, vampire killer (of gracious deportment) or reality-show has-been may exhibit wonder, generosity and understanding, while taking pause from trying to one-up, annihilate, or suck the guts out of another. At some point, a little alien, toting Rae’s lost yellow bra, tries to communicate a message including what seems the mantra of this book “Shine, not burn.” An afterglow of intelligence and imagination lingers after reading this story. A fine and fun achievement.
"Day for Night" proved to be just what I was looking for in the way of an offbeat and clever story. And it is so much more. I think Stacey Bryan is onto something with the misadventures of her thirty-something Rae, a woman looking for love and sometimes finding more than she can handle. But love risks taking a backseat to alien abductions and vampires! Bryan finds a way to mix romance and the supernatural into quite a page-turner.
As I'm sure that Bryan would like to point out, don't get too caught up in genre labels. While there is more than enough to satisfy romance and horror readers, it's important to note that this is solid read through and through and will appeal to just about any reader. Bryan brings a level of literary quality that results in a very engaging and highly accessible read.
There's a lighthearted vibe running throughout but that doesn't mean that Bryan does not go deeper. You'll find an amazing array of characters and a level of depth that will resonate and stay with you.
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