Tag Archives: vampires

REVIEW: Insatiable – Meg Cabot

Posted on January 15, 2014 by Ela

Meg Cabot is best known for her young adult and kids’ books, particularly her ten-strong The Princess Diaries series, but she’s a prolific author of light, often romantic stories which do also manage to grapple with the difficulties of teenage … Continue reading →

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True Blood Omnibus – Charlaine Harris

Posted on August 12, 2011 by Ela

(Gollancz e-book 2009) I must be one of the few people in Britain not to have a television, and as a result I’ve never seen ‘True Blood’, the television version of Charlaine Harris’s ‘Southern Vampire’ novel series narrated by Sookie … Continue reading →

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Blood Bound – Patricia Briggs

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Ela

(Orbit e-book, 2007) I remarked in my review of the first of this series that, while I enjoyed the book, it wasn’t sufficiently different from other such paranormal fantasy novels as to make it worthwhile reading the rest of the … Continue reading →

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Moon Called – Patricia Briggs

Posted on April 26, 2011 by Ela

(Hachette Digital 2006) Mercy Thompson series, book 1 I’d seen this series recommended to me on Amazon, but it was only when I read a review on the Book Smugglers blog of the latest in the series that I decided … Continue reading →

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Fables 3: Storybook Love – Bill Willingham et alia

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Ela

(Vertigo 2004) Spoilers in this review for events happening in the first and second collections. This third collection of Fables begins with a one-off story about Jack’s experiences during the American Civil War, and how he obtained and used a … Continue reading →

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Dracula – Bram Stoker

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Ela

(e-book, originally published 1897) This most famous of vampire novels is an interesting novel told from many different points of view. It’s a tense story, but its moments of terror are never explicitly stated, leaving much unexplained and to the … Continue reading →

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Soulless – Gail Carriger

Posted on October 17, 2010 by Ela

(Orbit 2009) Book the First of The Parasol Protectorate Miss Alexia Tarabotti suffers under a number of social disadvantages, primarily that she has no soul, but is also a confirmed spinster whose father was Italian. Set in a re-imagined Victorian … Continue reading →

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Carpe Jugulum – Terry Pratchett

Posted on September 15, 2010 by Ela

This, the twenty-third Discworld novel, has Pratchett having fun with the vampire novel, though particularly with Stoker’s Dracula rather than any modern updates. There are three main plot strands: the preparations for the christening of the baby daughter of King … Continue reading →

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Novels of Robin McKinley – discussion

Posted on June 25, 2010 by Ela

Robin McKinley is an American-born and British resident writer of fantasy whose books are generally marketed at the ‘Young Adult’ market, though not all of her books can be so described. I first encountered her novel ‘The Blue Sword’ as … Continue reading →

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