Sacrament as a book fits right into an unfortunate personal trend I’ve been experiencing which is: I like an author’s earlier work very much, so I request to review the current book and find unhappily, the current book doesn’t thrill me nearly as much as the others have. This has happened with several authors I…
I admit it. Dark Legend is my first Carpathian – and Christine Feehan – novel. I’ve been hearing about them for quite some time and even have her non-Carpathian The Scarletti Curse in my TBR pile. Ms. Feehan’s latest offering centers around an ancient Carpathian male named Gabriel, and Francesca Del Ponce. Gabriel and his…
A couple of months ago my brother-in-law, Harry, and I sat down to watch the movie Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Though we had both seen it before, we had an absolute ball with it. All of its flaws – its campy eroticism, melodramatic dialogue, extravagant costuming, strange cinematography, even Keanu Reeves’s hideous English accent – only…
An unread Dead Until Dark is a smile waiting to happen. This crossover book is appealing on a variety of levels, which makes for a very nice change. Usually, if I have a long list of things I want to point out, they generally have to do with the problems in a book. Not so…
Here’s how good Bloodsucking Fiends is: I was reading passages out loud to a friend on a long bus trip when I realized that at least three rows of people around us had been silent for the last 40 miles, apparently listening in. I got embarrassed and drifted off (who was I to inflict my…
First, I must mention the cover on this book. Truly wonderful, and definitely set the tone for the story. In my jaded mind, I wondered if it had such a great cover because the spine was marked “Fiction,” even though this is clearly a romance. I enjoyed this book until near the end when the…
Poor Christopher Marlowe. If being stabbed in the eye at the peak of his creative powers weren’t bad enough, the sixteenth century poet and playwright has now been transformed into the vampire hero of Walk in Moonlight by Rosemary Laurey. According to this novel, he’s been living in a little English village for four centuries,…
Companions of the Night has a little bit of everything: action, adventure, suspense, and romance. It is written at the young adult level, so the gore and sensuality are more subdued, but it is fast-paced and interesting enough to keep any adult turning the pages. Kerry Nowicki is sixteen and the de facto caretaker of…
Fans of Christine Feehan’s Carpathian series will not be disappointed with the newest in the series. I consider this to be my favorite, even more so than Gregori’s story, Dark Magic. Although I’m not normally a fan of extremely alpha heroes, I accept them in these particular books because Christine Feehan set up the Carpathian…
In this romance, vampire Gregori “The Dark One” is literally older than Methuselah, and heroine Savannah Dubrinsky is only twenty-three years old. What’s more, Gregori has known that he and Savannah were destined to be lifemates ever since he saved her life while she was a fetus. Talk about your May-December romances. Though the writing…
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