It has taken me a long time but I have finally finished this book. Why so long? Was it not that good? Quite the contrary but it is a busy time of year in school(s) so this just sat there taunting me. Now I know why all of our copies keep moving off the [...]
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I really did try but I just could not do it. I have bought manga before but never really gave it too much attention until now. Maybe it was the wrong manga book/comic/title? I don’t know but I just could not get my head around the reading from right to left! Weird.
I gather that [...]
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Having read an excerpt including the prologue and part of the first chapter of ‘Once Bitten, Twice Shy’ in the back of ‘Beyond the Shadows’, third book in the ‘Night Angel Trilogy’, by Brent Weeks, I completely enjoyed it, and I did not hesitate to purchase this book. Although not a thick book, it delivered a sufficiently enthralling storyline. [...]
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I finally finished David Wellington’s vampire trilogy last night, completing Vampire Zero in a blaze of fast and furious reading! It was absolutely great except for one tiny thing…the last page. In fact, the last paragraph of the last page.
The book is touted as the final in the trilogy. That usually means three books. I [...]
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All I seem to have been reading lately are books about vampires! Last year, I forced myself through the Twilight series (Meyer), all in the name of duty!
Then I read a great horror/vampire/crime series whoich begins with 13 Bullets and is followed by 99 Coffins (Wellington). I really enjoyed those but more for the crime [...]
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Twilight is a vampire novel, but one with a difference. They still drink blood, they still have superhuman abilities but the coven of vampires who are at the heart of this story have a sense of morality. A sense of right and wrong, and this makes them interesting as characters and the narrative is an [...]
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