You know, I feel kinda bad for the person who gets books for my library. Obviously, he had no way of knowing that Van Helsing wouldn't be a huge hit and there'd be really no interest in a novelization of the movie. Of course, I can't sympathize that much with him since he insists on buying only the second or even third book in a series (why not just the first one, so that if I like it I can buy the rest? Why make me buy the first one just so I can know what's going on?).
Long story short: I borrowed Van Helsing from the library and unfortunately, it isn't so bad it's good. It's so bad it's adequate. There's just stuff from the screenplay, and then a few added scenes where instead of just being in Notre Dame hunting a monster, we see Van Helsing get told "go to Notre Dame, hunt a monster." But still, there are a few gloriously bad bits (as well as the part where Van Helsing himself is so obviously an amnesiac angel... but how can he expect to figure that out, it's not like he works for the church or anything... wait, no, he does...).
She smiled and started to move again, but there was one more thing he had to make clear. Van Helsing pulled her to him and kissed her hard, then softly, then hard again.
Then soft again, then hard again, soft once more, then kinda a medium sort of kiss, then soft again, then hard, then soft, and scene.
Yet, that was not the only reason she wanted to do this, she had to admit. When she had looked into his eyes the last time and when they had kissed, she had seen something else: a future.
Up until now her entire life and the lives of her family for generations had been built around righting a wrong of the past. Her father had lived in that past, and he and Velkan had ultimately been consumed by it. Anna herself had never expected to survive.
And now a man wihout a past of his own had come to show her that another life was possible, a future was possible--one that included hope... and him.
To be fair, Hugh Jackman probably gets this reaction when he walks into a restaurant.
But other than that glurge, the book is pretty boring. Sure, if you're dirty-minded enough, the emphasis on how Van Helsing came for Anna and now she's coming for him could be amusing, but... not really.
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