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Succubus (n.) An alluring, shape-shifting demon who seduces and pleasures mortal men. Pathetic (adj.) A succubus with great shoes and no social life. See: Georgina Kincaid.
When it comes to jobs in hell, being a succubus seems pretty glamorous. A girl can be anything she wants, the wardrobe is killer, and mortal men will do anything just for a touch. Granted, they often pay with their souls, but why get technical?
But Seattle succubus Georgina Kincaid's life is far less exotic. Her boss is a middle-management demon with a thing for John Cusack movies. Her immortal best friends haven't stopped teasing her about the time she shape-shifted into the Demon Goddess getup complete with whip and wings. And she can't have a decent date without sucking away part of the guy's life. At least there's her day job at a local bookstore--free books; all the white chocolate mochas she can drink; and easy access to bestselling, sexy writer, Seth Mortensen, aka He Whom She Would Give Anything to Touch but Can't.
But dreaming about Seth will have to wait. Something wicked is at work in Seattle's demon underground. And for once, all of her hot charms and drop-dead one-liners won't help because Georgina's about to discover there are some creatures out there that both heaven and hell want to deny...
"What an incredible debut novel! Succubus Blues is exciting, witty, sexy, intriguing and had me captivated from the first page." --Cheyenne McCray, author of Seduced by Magic
Customer Reviews:
Four and a Half Stars.......2007-09-16
Georgina Kincaid is a succubus, living in Seattle, working by day in a bookstore whilst at the same time trying to squeeze in her otherworldly duties. However, there are more deadly things at play in Seattle as Georgina is about to discover.
Sometimes you read the first page of a book and you just know you're in for a wonderful read. Succubus Blues takes us into the life of the working demon and makes it real. It shows how the road to hell can be paved with good intentions, and illustrates how the concepts of good and evil are ambiguous.
As it's written in the first person we are immediately drawn into Georgina's world; which is so like our own. She has her friends (Hugh the imp, Cody her vampire dancing partner) and her enemies, and she has to please her boss - Jerome the archdemon.
Georgina is a witty and self-deprecating protagonist and as we get to know her through the course of the story we become aware of her sadness as well. She is a succubus with all that entails, and although there are romantic elements to this story, I would classify it as urban fantasy rather than romance. The life of the succubus is not glamorised, and although there are sexual situations, the sex scenes when they take place are not gratuitous. Indeed given the subject matter you may have expected more.
There is a lack of strong female secondary characters but given Georgina's nature perhaps this is not surprising. And the male characters more than make up for this - Seth, the shy, reserved writer, who Georgina not so secretly hero-worships; Hugh, Peter and Cody - her friends; and the surprising double act of Jerome (the local archdemon) and Carter (the angel) who, whenever they appear, steal the scene. You really feel you're gaining an insight into the lives of these `evil' immortals, and at the end of the story it's hard to say whether any of them are intrinsically evil or good - they are all just trying to do the best they can.
Like Cool Ranch Doritos.......2007-09-12
Push off all the books stacked on your nightstand and make a nice space for Succubus Blues by Richelle Mead. Don't worry, the space won't be occupied long. This is one of those books like a bag of Cool Ranch Doritos. All of a sudden you look down and realize that you just finished off the whole dang thing in one sitting.
Georgina Kincaid sold her soul a millenia ago to spare her family. Now she's an immortal succubus and keeps her youthful glow by screwing men. The pure upright and moral souls give her a bigger fix. Although her mission is to rack up more souls for Hell, she's a likeable gal. Without giving away the whole delcious story, I'll just throw in these other factors: a demon boss who looks like John Cussak, one of God's own angels, and Georgina's favorite author who turns out to be an introverted geek...yet somehow freakin steaming hot.
Now, you'd think with a succubus as a main character, the story would be porn ala Laurel K. Hamilton. Surprisingly, there's only one significant sex scene (and significant it is!). Unlike Hamilton, Mead has whipped up a fresh new mythology based on old world legends, with likeable characters that have serious room to grow. Good news is that this is book one in a series. Book two, Succubus on Top is due out in December.
Her contemporary fantasy writing style is like Kim Harrison, Rachel Caine, Carrie Vaughn and Patricia Briggs. Good company, I'm tellin ya!
I really wanted to like this one...........2007-09-09
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You know, after reading the first chapter, I was really looking forward to this one. It seemed witty and interesting (the life of a succubus)because I've always liked seeing the story from the other side. I like the grey area. It seems more true to real life. So that said, why the low rating?
Well, first of all, it really dragged along the first 100 pages. I mean really dragged on. Yes, I know it was meant to show Gorgina's life as ordinary, not so different from humans (asst. manager job at bookstore)and all the mundane daily riturals, well except for the succubus part. From walking to work, working at the cafe, playing with her cat, obsessing over an auther etc. But, I felt some of it could have be shortened to move the story along. It just wasn't engaging enough. I mean why else do you pick up a book.
Second, Georgina seemed pretty clueless about her own world. I mean she really knew nothing about fallen angels, how the other creatures of the night could be killed...including herself. For someone as old as her, you would think she'd have plenty of time to ponder and find out answers. I mean,I knew more than her. Yes, I know this is fantasy, but it has to be made in a way thats believable for the reader.
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Thirdly, I really stopped sympathizing for her about a third of the way through. Okay, yes she's a succubus but really that part was okay with me. But, she lolled back and forth with Seth and Roman. So torn but engulfed in either or depending on who was with her at the moment. That I could bare with, since it was an act at character growth (feeling for these men, but torn with being a succubus)but man did she drag them through the dirt. But the real killer for me was when she finally found out who the "bad guy" so to speak was, and after soul searching :) she was going to run away with him, if he chose to back down. After he pours his heart out to her, confesses everthing about his beaten life on the lamb, and decides to back down...what does she do...hang him out to dry. Then when the other boyfriend comes around (just when things start to get ugly because of her betrayal), she decides, well its actually this one I love not the other one (who's being destroyed as we speak). And she has no second thought (regret or pity) about the other, well except the fear for her own life.
It really put a bad taste in my mouth. I'm not one of those who always looks for a happy ending. But, when it come to the main character of a series, you have to at least like her or you know sympathize with her, to be interested in seeing her life unfold.
Oh well, I know this wasn't the nicest review and I'm sorry about that but, I couldn't help commenting when I'd been so terribly disappointed with it.
I know authors can take down comments if they feel its unfair. And I honestly don't feel its unfair, as well as others I've talked too. So, we shall see if she reads this....and if its gone....we'll know she deleted it.
Surprisingly delightful.......2007-09-05
It's hard to like a succubus, but Mead makes her character very enticing with Kincaid's internal conflicts. The author blends various types of fantasy with not only a compelling storyline but also with an overarching conflict that obviously will continue with sequels. Mead deftly twists her plot so readers will be carried along without intuiting the ending. I'm excited the sequel will be coming in Dec. '08. This is definitely a series to watch with its appealing characters.
Very Surprised.......2007-08-21
I resisted reading this book for quite awhile. From the cover and the title, I thought it would be filled with a lot of gratuitous sex and very little plot. I was wrong. This book was GOOD. The characters were realistic and compelling, and I can't wait until the next book comes out.
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- Grim and gritty
- best burke novel/ 2nd best book by vacchs
- Burke Is Back! And Blue Belle Is OUTSTANDING!
- The best book in the Burke series
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Customer Reviews:
Grim and gritty.......2006-09-17
In the world of hardboiled mysteries, there is hard-boiled and there is HARD-boiled. Andrew Vachss's Burke stories definitely fit into this latter category; they teem with a tough grittiness that is rarely exceeded in the genre.
In this tale, Burke is asked by a pimp named Marques to take on a bounty for the operators of the Ghost Van, a vehicle that is patrolling the streets and killing prostitutes. His contact with Marques is initiated through Belle, a stripper with a past filled with abuse and incest. She is definitely damaged and she appoints Burke to fix her, becoming his lover with a dedication that borders on obsession.
The search for the van brings an even more vicious evil in the form of Mortay, a psychotic killer who is an expert martial artist and is virtually unbeatable in hand-to-hand combat. Mortay wants to face Burke's friend Max in single combat; while Burke knows that Max might win such a fight, even a victory could have bad repercussions. For Burke, therefore, the task is to avoid such a duel to begin with.
There are some nice things about this third novel in the Burke series. In particular, we get a better look at his inner demons and see that is toughness is partially a façade to keep those demons at bay. The principal flaw is the same as with the other books: the world portrayed in the story is so dark it is not as much real as surreal; I think that this diminishes some of the impact of the grimness. Another problem, the plethora of eccentric characters who also reduce the stories plausibility, is toned down in this book.
Despite the imperfections, I do enjoy reading these stories but they are definitely not for everyone: they are loaded with explicit sex and violence that could turn off some readers. If you have not read any in the series, I recommend starting with Flood, the first in the series, as there is continuity between the books. But even as a standalone, this is a good tough guy mystery.
best burke novel/ 2nd best book by vacchs.......2005-07-31
The best book by Vacchs that I have read is "Stella," which is very similar to his Burke books but is about a true loner, so we don't get the constant, overly sentimental scenes of Burke's "family" of fellow misfits. But this one is almost as good, mostly because it keeps a leash on the cuteness. Highly recommended.
Burke Is Back! And Blue Belle Is OUTSTANDING!.......2005-02-08
Andre Vachss' "Blue Belle" is my third Burke novel. All three book are excellent, but Burke, the man, and the strange folks who people his world and call him" friend" are what keeps me a faithful fan. They are my focus, whatever the plot. And the plots are good, fast-paced and riveting. However, this far-out group of characters has me hooked on the series. Burke is as complex a figure as they come, and he grows, evolves and changes with each book. I have never encountered anyone quite like him before in fiction. He is a hard-boiled, in-your-face, ex-con detective, who still isn't sure on which side of the law he prefers to operate. A survivor, at all cost, he is also a stand-up guy. Vachss delves more into Burke's past here, reveals more about his various prison stints and what he learned there. Fascinating stuff. If you are a Vachss/Burke fan, or become one, I would suggest that you try to read the books in order - at least the first 3 or 4. Of course, every novel stands on its own, independent of the others, but the character's development is continual. There are also references to past events, and for a richer reading experience it is helpful to know the history. If you're just looking for a good read, and not interested in becoming a Burke maven, then by all means, read at random.
"Blue Belle" is one hard-hitting novel, reminiscent of crime fiction in the 1940s and 50s, though much more disturbing. Burke, as always, is our narrator. Everything and everyone comes under his cynical, seen-it-all scrutiny. I have never learned more about the underworld and the seamier side of life, the one most people rarely observe, than through the author's narrative. Burke's expert eyes take in details of life on the street that mine never would. His gritty urban world is one where "citizens" dwell side-by-side with "maggots."
A "ghost van" is terrorizing New York City's prostitutes. A gang of fiends, traveling in a big, smoke-colored van, are brutally murdering teen streetwalkers, young girls, only thirteen and fourteen years-old. A group of pimps put together a war chest and hire Burke to take the van off the streets. Pimps are, after all, businessmen, and lost merchandise and declining profits are bad for business. When the Prophet, a friend, mentor and "colleague" of Burke's, "scopes the scene" for information concerning these killers, he encounters a psychopathic martial arts freak by the name of Mortay, ("muerte"). As a result, the Prof winds up in St. Vincent's Hospital with two broken legs, in a world of hurt. Mortay has been hitting the city's dojo's and challenging each sensei to a death match. He will not allow anyone to walk away, and has killed everyone he has forced to fight him. He gave the Prof a message. He wants to fight Max The Silent, a mute, 20th century Mongolian warrior who calls Burke "brother." Max and his woman have just had a baby daughter, whose life Mortay threatens if Max refuses to accept the challenge. Burke senses a connection between the van and Mortay. He just has to find out what it is and how to eliminate both problems....while protecting his brother's family. Grim.
New developments occur in this novel which will have a long term effect on our protagonist. Burke has a lifetime history of living a loner's existence. Belle, "a big sweet-smelling girl with a snake tattoo on her thigh" meets our man to set up an initial appointment with Marques, the pimp. Burke and Belle act on a mutual attraction, which then begins to grow into a relationship. She is a voluptuous exotic dancer, a superb getaway-car driver, and she loves our man. Her past is dark. So what else is new?
The usual suspects are all present, including: Max the Silent, now a father, who "makes his living as a courier, moving things around the city for a price. His collateral is his life;" Pansy is a warrior of another species - she's a Neapolitan mastiff, just like the kind that came over the Alps with Hannibal; the Mole, a pasty-faced genius who lives in a bunker beneath a high-tech junkyard; the Prophet, a scam artist who speaks in rhyme; Mama Wong, group doyenne - a Chinese Jewish mother and restaurateur, "keeps her prices high and the ambiance foul to discourage yuppies." She cares for the gang, takes Burke's messages and holds his stash; Michelle, a gorgeous transvestite who is about ready to go to Denmark for a life-changing operation; I should add here that our hero drives a souped-up Plymouth, another important character. It usually looks like it's been painted with rust. That's the fresh coat of primer it almost always sports - "the Mole makes sure to change the car's color after it is used on a job."
Mr. Vachss' writing is bleak, gritty, disquieting. His chapters have gotten shorter, his prose choppier - it adds to the ambiance. The author is a lawyer, who specialized in prosecuting child abuse cases. He has worked as a federal investigator in sexually transmitted diseases, a caseworker in New York, and managed a maximum-security prison for violent juvenile offenders. Vachss calls the child protective movement "a war," and considers his writing as powerful a weapon as his litigation. He openly admits that he writes about the abuse of children because he wants to raise people's awareness of what's going on, and he'll reach a wider audience with fiction.
"Blue Bell's" grittiness may not be for everyone, but it is one fantastic novel. Highly recommended!
JANA
The best book in the Burke series.......2003-12-16
If you like Vachss' Burke series, don't miss this one. This book contains Burke's greatest love interest (besides his dog Pansey). It also has a lot of information and action involving his "family". The way that Burke's family of misfits understand and stand by him is one of the reasons why I have read and reread each book in the Burke series and look forward to each and every one as they are released. This one is my favorite of the series. If you didn't think that Burke would ever find his ideal woman or at least one who wasn't using him for something, you were wrong. Do things work out for Belle and Burke? Well those of you who have read the later books in the series know the answer and those who haven't will have to get a copy to find out.
The book I wished would never end..........2003-08-11
This book was so good, I read it over a span of 2 days. I never wanted to put it down. Burke is an excellent example of a street-level character that is tough, multi-leveled & real. Vachss writing explores all angles of his characters and is great at explaining past occurrences in his Burke series to newcomers without dragging it out too long for the familiar. Vachss' writing is well researched and he makes me wish his books could go on forever. Blue Belle is my favorite of his Burke books so far and I hope this series never ends because all the Burke books are great.
Book Description
When university lecturer Hazel Jones takes the most popular of her female students as a lodger, she expects a procession of attractive men to follow. What she doesn't expect is Tiggy's diary to be left out every day. Sharing her house with this shameless young woman encourages Hazel to realise what's missing in her own, rather dull, academic life. Knowing what Tiggy gets up to, she is unable to resist reading it. It's not quite what she expects, but the revelations in the diary quickly lead her down a path she never expected to take.
Customer Reviews:
A Poor Offering From Black Lace.......2007-09-27
This book was fairly boring and rates low on the arousal scale. There are far better ones out there and I would not advise anyone to pick this one up, (unless you get it for free :)
Bound to Please!.......2007-07-03
I must say, right at the outset, that I am not a usual Black Lace reader. I find the sex scenes a little soft generally, but I realize they are written for women However, this particular book is wonderful! The heroine should appeal to male and female readers alike. She's intelligent, strong and wilful, but also has a wonderfully submissive fantasy life. She indulges in her fantasies, and, as the book progresses, starts living them out. The four or five fantasies that she imagines in the first half of the book are wonderful, and without giving anything away, the reality scenes later won't let you down. The key for me, though, were the small but powerful fantasy scenes, and I'll keep my fingers crossed for more in future Monica Belle books!
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Blue Belle
Andrew Vachss
Manufacturer: Random House Value Publishing
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ASIN: 0517050641
Release Date: 1990-05-01 |
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6 Book Set By Andrew Vachss; Blue Belle; Blossom; Hardcandy; Born Bad; Shella; Down in the Zero.
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FIRST EDITION. Providence, Rhode Island: Samuel C. Blodget, 1844. Hardcover, issued without dust jacket. 4 x 6 inches, 322 pages. Bound in original embossed cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. An early anti-feminist novel by a prolific woman author from New Jersey who wrote about topics ranging from architecture to calisthenics. RARE TITLE.
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Learn more about Kindred -and Cainite- Society!.......2001-12-27
"Even the Damned have taboos", reads the back side of the book.
One of the greatest is Amaranth, also known as Diablerie.
"Sins of the blood" covers many topics that hadn't been covered before in the Revised edition. Some info from "Dirty Secrets of the Black Hand" re-appears here, like the weird Path of Enlightenment of the True Brujah, and the infamous "Ritual of the Bitter Rose", that gives the Diablerie a very interesting edge, since it permits a whole coterie (or pack) to benefit from one single Amaranth victim.
The book also covers interesting information on Autarkis, and what happens to you if you switch sects; it deals with cults and gives you an idea of how you(r vampire character :)) can start one, and get loads of moronic cultists, to do all the unpleasantness for you!
This book is very interesting. I'm not very sure if the people that buy sourcebooks only "for the extra dots" will like it (well, maybe the Thaumaturgy paths and rituals might make it a good buy for them). On the other hand, for the people who look for background information, it is a very interesting buy. It isn't as essential as, say, the Vampire Storytellers Handbook, but it looks nice on the shelf and it can add many good ideas to your ongoing chronicle.
So, if you like to portray "deviants", either as Player Character or as Storyteller Character, in your chronicle, this can be a good add-on to your VtM collection. But tread lightly... the powers-that-be frown on unusual behavior, and those things they don't understand, they want them Finally Dead...
Book Description
Combining the allure of crime with the fascination of the erotic, FLESH BLOOD: GUILTY AS SIN is the third sexy spree of titillating short stories written by the best in crime fiction. The anthology weaves together captivating tales by O'Neil DeNoux, David Fulmer, Dick Lochte, Rex Miller, and Jack Kelly, among other purveyors of crime and punishment-and continues the tradition that has set readers' hearts racing.
Customer Reviews:
Seventeen Stories of Sex and Violence.......2003-08-22
A 300-pound sex goddess tricks her lover into committing murder for her. A porn king longs to make a respectable movie, but things go horribly wrong. An elderly man finds the best lover he ever had, but she exacts a terrible price.
All of the stories in Flesh and Blood involve people who are truly guilty as sin. The most shocking story involves a serial murderer who favors a particular part of the body when he shoots his victims.
None of the stories in this collection hesitate to take a careful look at the dark side of human nature. Whether describing a woman hiding under a bed while her lover seduces another woman or a couple who have become bored with their regular life and want to seek out more daring sexual adventures, the authors do not flinch from describing human nature at its most graphic.
Many of the best stories are set in the past, during that period of the 1940s when "noire" ruled and, in fact, the editors of this collection say they were influenced by James Cain and Raymond Chandler. The editors explain that they set out to "shock, titillate and thrill."
If you have romantic ideas about love, this is not the book for you. The characters in this book say "I love you," right before they plunge in the knife or pull on the trigger. Some of the stories are shocking and some are scary, but all of the seventeen stories in this collection are very well-written.
A Murder & Mayhem Bookclub review.......2003-04-21
Short, sharp, savvy and saucy - with a nod in the direction of the classic "noir" or "hardboiled" style this short story collection delivers your crime in very edible bites.
The decorated group of authors assembled here each contribute their modern interpretation to where it all began in crime; uncomplicated motive, meaningful encounters and your murders delivered by gun and blade. The editors give their thanks to the original masters of crime fiction: James M Cain, Raymond Chandler and Mickey Spillane etc in what is a highly enjoyable dish of "erotic tales of crime and passion". But with a liberal splash of humour and irony.
The people we encounter every day and think nothing of it: what does that bank teller, airline attendant, security guard have cooking on their mental back burners behind the facade of polite efficiency? Murder.
Reality checks in with the fedora hat and overcoat here; enjoy these 23 windows into the everyday world that includes bad men and nasty women with a grudge. Most of these stories would aptly be described as fantastical - how many gorgeous women can the average Joe bed in a day? - but they are fun rides into the seamier side of life.
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Andrea Thompson
This Latest Volume Will Titillate and Challenge the Reader.......2003-04-14
The pairing is so obvious that it's remarkable someone hadn't thought to create a compilation of stories combining graphic sex with noir detective settings long ago. Isn't that what detective fiction is ultimately all about, anyway? Detective stories all seem to involve the seven deadly sins sooner or later. There's greed, envy, lust, lust, lust, lust and lust. I think I covered 'em all. However, not much else remains covered in FLESH & BLOOD: GUILTY AS SIN, the latest in the FLESH & BLOOD anthologies of original stories edited by Max Allan Collins and Jeff Gelb.
Collins needs no introduction to readers of detective fiction or to anyone else, really, since his graphic novel, THE ROAD TO PERDITION, was adapted to film. And Gelb? Horror aficionados have prized his HOT BLOOD series, edited with writer and writing instructor extraordinaire Michael Garrett, for some time now. FLESH & BLOOD is a logical outgrowth of the HOT BLOOD series and succeeds as thoroughly. The reasons for the success of both series are the uncanny ability of the editors to mix each anthology with well-known writers and those who are soon to be well known and to get their best out of all of them.
This is far more than a collection of "dirty stories." The sexual content is graphic but always fits appropriately within the context of the tale. Collins's own "Lie Beside Me," co-written with Matthew V. Clemens, is an excellent example of this. The story begins with John Sand, a retired secret agent who is finding that domestic bliss is boring. Mrs. Sand decides to re-awaken their marriage by reminding Sand of certain aspects of his exciting past, just as the past suddenly --- and dangerously --- threatens to intrude. This is the story that Ian Fleming, alas, never got to write.
Then there is O'Neil De Noux's contribution, "The Iberville Mistress." De Noux is a frequent contributor to Gelb's anthologies. No one can write an erotic tale set in New Orleans, that most erotic of cities, like De Noux. This tale of a private eye who becomes an unwitting, though not necessarily unwilling, instrument of the termination of a marriage is worth the price of admission all by itself.
Loren Estelman contributes a fine and humorous offering entitled "A Hatful of Ralph" about a department store detective who finds out more than he should about the extracurricular activities of a couple of coupling employees, while Gelb's "Perfection" is perhaps the ultimate cautionary tale about getting what you wish for. Garrett is represented as well in "Sex Crimes," which is the perfect title for a little band of thrill killers who, uh, really get into their work.
There are a couple of surprises as well. Clemens and Gelb score a coup with "Walking to Paris," a story by the much missed and remembered Rex Miller, who comes out of an illness-imposed retirement to present this story about a stewardess with a penchant for the ultimate payback. And then there's "Bank Job" by Thomas Roche. I was heretofore unfamiliar with Roche's work, a deficiency in my literary education that I plan to remedy soon. "Bank Job," gloriously set in San Francisco, chronicles what befalls a policeman who finds himself kidnapped during a bank robbery and who is almost too distracted by what befalls him to figure out an escape. This story is perhaps the most bizarre in the entire collection and is certainly one of the best.
FLESH & BLOOD: GUILTY AS SIN continues the tradition established by its predecessors of combining sex, violence and mystery into a steamy literary mix that both titillates and challenges the reader. Hopefully, we can look forward to seeing new volumes of this collection for many years to come.
--- Reviewed by Joe Hartlaub
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- Suffer the Vampire Children...
- REAL Vampires
- i got chills
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Sins of the Blood
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Manufacturer: Dell
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ASIN: 0440215404
Release Date: 1994-11-01 |
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Suffer the Vampire Children..........2002-01-30
Okay, I found this thing by accident in one of those bargain bins where you can get ... in one of the local book stores. It was a good bargain, I got a couple of crime novels in the deal.
However, it turns out that this was a worthwhile investment of my hard won cash (I'm a student, okay? Ever penny counts)
One of the few things that surprised me about this novel is that it was all in context. There wasn't an inexplicable sex-romp in the middle that had nothing to do with the plot (Richard Laymon is guilty of that). I liked the way that the story is divided in the beginning, but then is slowly worked together, tying into one plot in the end. It makes me wonder if there is a seqel in the works, if so -- when, if not -- why not?
I tend to be a collector of vampire fiction (Anne Rice, LKH, Brian Lumley, Wendy Haley, Nancy A Collins...just to name a few) and this one stands apart, both by the rich imagery without the long-winded descriptions and the immediate action. It also has a new and interesting take on the so-called 'undead' without losing the preternatural twist that I so love.
Two thumbs up.
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REAL Vampires.......2001-06-05
I bought the book while waiting for a delayed flight and I have been in search of books by the author since. The book made vampires REAL, seemed like they are just around you! Can find no other vampire stories like this one!
i got chills.......2000-12-23
its got explisit sex sceans, gory deaths, twists and turne if vampires are your thing you will enjoy this book. Quote: vampires are changing they can now make children born not bled into being hide their ture nature until well into adult hood and have a power nothing can match
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- Very enjoyable!!!
- Stone Prison
- A Writer To Watch
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Sins of Blood and Stone
John Urbancik
Manufacturer: Catalyst Press
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ASIN: 1894815459 |
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Five hundred years ago, he served as a priest during the Spanish Inquisition. When he thought his love affair, which had produced a child, had been discovered, he had the man who knew the secrets put to death. Then by his own decree, he had his lover put to death as well. Distraught, he took his own life, and woke up . . . And now, after one hundred years of awareness as a gargoyle, a woman identical to his lost love enters the church. And the gargoyle discovers that he can move . . .
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Very enjoyable!!!.......2004-03-27
I would have liked to learn the backstory behind the demons, but otherwise this was a really entertaining book. Took a little time to get going, but once it did, there was no stopping it!! I loved how Mr. Urbancik described the Gargoyle's flights around NYC, and the battles that took place with the demons. Most importantly I enjoyed the Gargoyle's character arc and his reasons for redemption. I look forward to the author's next novel - I hope it's as engrossing as this one!!!
Stone Prison.......2002-10-03
This is a solid first book from an aspiring Author. The story is new and fresh and it kept me intrigued through out the entire book. I didn't find a single dull spot and I actually finished it within a day. I will not give anything about the story away just know that I highly recommend this one whether you're a fan of horror or not.
Also recommend The Eternal Battle by another aspiring author Keith Gouveia.
A Writer To Watch.......2002-10-01
John Urbancik proves himself a writer to watch with his debut novel, Sins of Blood and Stone. The book walks the line between dark fantasy and horror. While religion is featured prominently in this book, this book blurs the line between good and evil and forces us to look deep inside ourselves to see where we might fit in this balance.
Not all mysteries in this book are answered, and that is not a bad thing. I wish that some of the characters had been drawn out more--I wanted to know more about them--and there were other, minor flaws, but Sins is a brilliant introduction to the writing of John Urbancik. I'm really looking forward to Urbancik's next book.
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Better than gold;: Or, the precious blood of Christ
H. D Brown
Manufacturer: Hodder and Stoughton
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
General | Jesus | Christianity | Religion & Spirituality | Subjects | Books
General | Theology | Christianity | Religion & Spirituality | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B0008AI932 |
Book Description
Master theologian Andrew Murray takes a step-by-step approach to expounding why the blood of Christ is so important to Christians. Examines the promises made to believers in both the Old and New Testaments.
Customer Reviews:
If you Want to Survive, You've Got to Read This Book!.......2003-09-18
If you want to overcome and not just survive in these days of terrorism and pestilences, I highly recommend this book written by Andrew Murray.
People perish for lack of knowledge, but here is an author who gives the Christian believer some great insights about the awesome power that the Blood holds in the spiritual world. It paid for our salvation, restores us to God, helps us overcome sin, and protects us from the evil one. Revelation 12:11 says that they overcame the enemy by the Blood of the Lamb. Reading this book gave me a clearer understanding and the confidence to use the Blood of Jesus in every area of my life.
As a companion book, "The Blood and the Glory" by Billeye Brim is an excellent read. She shares insights that, together with Murray's book, will give you, the reader, a good foundation on the truth of the Blood of Jesus.
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