Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Thomas Dunne Books, 2016 ISBN-13: 978-1250099082 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, Audible Certain Dark Things is an excellent example of what a vampire novel can be. The characters are strong, the writing is fast-paced, and it paints a vision of a world we have not seen before. There is a ton of […]
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Review: The Casquette Girls by Alys Arden
April 7, 2016The Casquette Girls by Alys Arden Skyscape Books, 2015 ISBN-13: 978-1503946545 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, Audible New Orleans, with its rich history and varied people, reeks of life, death, and mystery, intriguing both writers and readers. Anne Rice, Heather Graham, and Poppy Z. Brite have captured the wonders and horrors well: the Big Easy is more than […]
Review: Angel: Old Friends
January 1, 2016It’s not terribly clear whether Old Friends is an alternate to After the Fall or not. In the latter we see L.A. materialized in hell and some major changes to our cast. In Old Friends it’s clear the Wolfram & Hart take over, as well as much of season 5 of Angel happened. But likely […]
Review: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Ring of Fire
May 19, 2015Set during the “Angel is Evil” saga in the series (mid-late second season) Ring of Fire explains the commented on, but never really explained plot point in Undays of our Lives where Dru leaves Spike! I had always wondered on rewatching the series what exactly happened between the murderous lovers. Turns out Dru leaves Spike […]
by Andi Watson, Joe Bennett and Rick Ketcham The Remaining Sunlight is less a cohesive single story and more several comic Buffy shorts. In the first Xander takes martial arts lessons to try to keep up with Buffy and learns that being less powerful than the slayer isn’t the worst thing that could happen. Despite […]
Review: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Dust Waltz
May 7, 2015by Dan Brereton, Hector Gomez and Sandu Florea The Dust Waltz is the first BtVS graphic novel, set very early in the series, in the early high school years. It sees Buffy and the gang, plus some, trying to save Sunnydale from a feud between two ancient sisters. In their tradition the sisters have brought […]
Review: Sunshine by Robin McKinley
November 13, 2014Sunshine’s life is changed forever when, while out for a walk by the lake, she is kidnapped by vampires and left, chained to a wall, to be prey to an enemy they’ve captured and have been torturing. It’s a game, starve the vampire then leave him alone with a pretty young, innocent girl until he […]
Review: Blood of My World by A.P. Fuchs
October 7, 2014I’m not the biggest fan of paranormal romance, especially with the release of books such as The Vampire Diaries and the Twilight series (which I do not consider horror). However I was intrigued by a YA novella trilogy by A.P. Fuchs who is perhaps best known for writing about zombies. Blood of My World consists of three novellas—Discovery of Death, Memories of Death, […]
Review: Vamplayers by Rusty Fischer
October 3, 2014Lily is a vampire sister, a special kind of vampire who ferrets out Vamplayers–that is the egomaniac monsters who turn whole high schools and leave towns with piles of corpses. And she hates it, because why would she stay a lowly sidekick wen she could be a super savior/hero instead? She’s sure she’s better than […]
ISBN: 1421508222 Available: New This manga is set in an elite boarding school that is home to the “dayclass” (humans) and the “nightclass” (vampires). Yuki and Zero, both survivors of vampire attacks, now protect the Dayclass from the Nightclass and vice versa. The first book was quite good, revealing Zero’s tragic secret and setting […]