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Book Review: Charlie Huston’s My Dead Body

Book Review: Charlie Huston’s My Dead Body

Just ask Joe Pitt. After exposing the secret source of blood for half of Manhattan’s Vampyres, he’s definitely a dead man walking. He’s been a punching bag and a bullet magnet for every Vampyre Clan in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, not to mention a private eye, an enforcer, an exile, and a vigilante, but now he’s just a target with legs.

Posted August 1, 2011 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

Book Review: Lucienne Diver’s Vamped

Book Review: Lucienne Diver’s Vamped

I received this book for free from in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Vampedby Lucienne Diver urban fantasy in a paperback edition that was published by Flux on May 8, 2009 and has 231 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Kicking ItFirst in the Vamped contemporary Young Adult urban fantasy series. My Take If you enjoy MaryJanice Davidson’s Queen Betsy, you’ll love Vamped as it’s Betsy if she had been turned as a young teen. Obsessed with appearance and mad about shopping, Gina Covello has sass and attitude. And doesn’t hesitate to use ’em to get back her teen queen position amongst her peers. I think what bothered me was this is all just too easy. Too teen-y. The lame name-calling didn’t help. Why was such a teen queen as Gina even in a closet necking with Bobby? What was Bobby doing there in the first place if he’s considered such a dweeb? Just why does Gina think Bobby is all that all of a sudden? Why did Mellisande let Bobby run around loose if he […]


Book Review: Rob Thurman’s Blackout

Book Review: Rob Thurman’s Blackout

I received this book for free from in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Blackoutby Rob Thurman dark fantasy in a paperback edition that was published by Ace Books on March 1, 2011 and has 352 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include The Grimrose Path, Basilisk, Doubletake, Kicking It, Nevermore, Shadowed SoulsSixth in the Cal Leandros dark urban fantasy series set in contemporary New York City. Cal and his brother, Niko, are loners who live to fight the supernatural. My Take I love this series. Yes, it’s dark. VERY dark. Thurman writes so very well that I can feel the grimness of their lives, the grittiness of New York, the peace that Peter Pan brought to Cal as a child. The loneliness he experiences as himself along with the regret he feels for leaving behind that scrap of humanity he got to experience. Yet we also experience the love and respect he has for Niko. Both good men. Cal comes to understand the place he holds for Niko and the support only he can provide. As for […]

Posted July 12, 2011 by Kathy Davie in Book Reviews / 0 Comments