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Book Review: Steel Rose by Barbara Custer

Steel Rose by Barbara Custer

Eternal Press, 2013

ISBN: 9781615728534

Available: Paperback, Kindle edition

Steel Rose is a stand–alone novel, which may yet produce a series. This book focuses on the staff and patients of a hospital in Philadelphia. Alexis suffers from horrifying body riddling arthritis. While she is undergoing treatment, an alien race known as the Draekh invade Philadelphia through the hospital where she is staying, and take possession of numerous patients and staff. In particular, they find Alexis’ nemesis, Laurel, a tech at the hospital, of great interest, and turn her into the vampiric ground forces commander.  Alexis and her family must stave off these forces, but given her debilitating illness, this is no easy feat.

I found this book engrossing. The details on disease, zombie eating habits, and vampiric tendencies, are well-crafted and nuanced. I rather dug how venomously Laurel hates everybody. This is a deliciously evil book. It comes HIGHLY RECOMMENDED to readers of zombie, vampire, and science fiction.

Contains: Graphic Violence, Profanity, Adult Situations.

Reviewed by Benjamin Franz

 

 

Posted on February 14, 2015 by , Reply

Book Review: Murder of Crows by Anne Bishop


 
Murder of Crows by Anne Bishop
 

Roc, 2014

ISBN-13: 9781101637944

Available: Hardcover, paperback,  Audible audiobook

 
 
Meg has earned her place with The Others by spending her own flesh and blood and gift of prophecy to save them. But tensions between The Others and humans are at an all time high, with the appearance of two new drugs that either sedate The Others beyond self-defense, or throw the humans into berserker rages against them. While Meg struggles with her need to use her potentially maiming power, and a chilling premonition about her new friends, Simon the werewolf and Vladimir of Clan Vampire are troubled by what they’re discovering about the traditions of the blood prophets.
 

With a blizzard coming in, pushed by the rage of the elementals at the battles they’re facing with the humans Bishop throws in a bit of snowed in impending disaster tension as well. A great read, well paced considering Bishop’s penchant for trilogies. Definitely recommended for collections and fantasy lovers.
 

Contains: violence, sexual violence, language

Reviewed by Michele Lee

Posted on January 10, 2015 by , Reply

Book Review: Written In Red: A Novel of The Others by Anne Bishop

Written in Red by Anne Bishop
 
Roc, 2014 (reissue edition)
 
ISBN-13: 9780451464965
 
Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition
 

Meg Corbyn is on the run, with a deep secret. She’s a blood prophet, a young woman gifted with the ability to foretell the future by spilling her own blood. She isn’t is a free woman, though; she was raised by a corporation, her flesh sold for the use of the highest buyer. Now she is stolen property.; she’s stolen herself away, and found a perfect hiding place, within a community of creatures who have never even pretended to be human.

 

Written in Red is a vivid urban fantasy from epic fantasy staple Anne Bishop. Fans of Bishop’s writing will find some familiar elements, as will urban fantasy fans. The addition of a heroine addicted to self-mutilation, a new interpretation of shifters and vampires, and Bishop’s stellar prose, are sure to keep readers interested. Very much recommended for public library collections and fantasy/dark fantasy/urban fantasy fans.

 
 
Contains: language, violence, self-mutilation, sexual violence
 

Reviewed by Michele Lee

 

Editor’s Note: Thanks to Monster Librarian Facebook follower Linda Lee Booth for getting me back into the groove for 2015!

Posted on January 10, 2015 by , Reply
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