I actually really enjoyed this book and gave it 5 stars which is rare for me. free for the kindle download.
Book 1 in the Soul of V’Kar series.Passion this strong is dangerous. They both know it. Mortal enemies, their respective factions have been at war since the dawn of man. Resa is a Dhampir, bred and trained to hunt Vampyres. Constantine is a prince among the Vampyre, the oldest and most lethal.Nothing good can come of this hunger, this need that drives them relentlessly toward one another. Neither reason nor devotion to duty can stay their need. There is but one way to quench the thirst that drives them. Once sated, they can return to the battle and see which one, if either, is left standing.But one drink from the cup of desire serves only to magnify the hunger. One act of lust that could alter them forever, changing the course of destiny.
Showing posts with label fantasy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fantasy. Show all posts
Monday, January 16, 2012
Discovery of Death (Blood of my World Novella One): A Paranormal Romance
3 stars, tragedy, teenage angst.
fun to read, but there's a twist in the middle to the end of the book.
"A refreshing teen fantasy full of bite, blood and romance." -- K. H. Koehler, author of RaijuZach and Rose had fallen in love during their sophomore year, their worlds completely changed and utterly belonging to each other’s. It was the first time either had fallen in love, deeply, purely. Aiming for a future together, plans were interrupted when Zach went missing for three long months, leaving Rose distraught, heartbroken and depressed.Zach awakens in the dark of a coffin, his memory erased, his life and feelings for Rose forgotten. A strange group of people who identify themselves as his family reveal he has become a vampire, one of the undead.
SPOILER ALERT:
the boy turned vampire has to drink blood to regain his memories, the first person he kills is his girlfriend's mom. horrified and sickened her tries to reconcile the fact that the girl he loves might be out of his reach.
fun to read, but there's a twist in the middle to the end of the book.
"A refreshing teen fantasy full of bite, blood and romance." -- K. H. Koehler, author of RaijuZach and Rose had fallen in love during their sophomore year, their worlds completely changed and utterly belonging to each other’s. It was the first time either had fallen in love, deeply, purely. Aiming for a future together, plans were interrupted when Zach went missing for three long months, leaving Rose distraught, heartbroken and depressed.Zach awakens in the dark of a coffin, his memory erased, his life and feelings for Rose forgotten. A strange group of people who identify themselves as his family reveal he has become a vampire, one of the undead.
SPOILER ALERT:
the boy turned vampire has to drink blood to regain his memories, the first person he kills is his girlfriend's mom. horrified and sickened her tries to reconcile the fact that the girl he loves might be out of his reach.
Monday, May 3, 2010
Time for the stars by Robert A. Heinlein
Time for the stars by Robert A. Heinlein
ISBN:0345301862
Copyright 1956 by Robert A. Heinlein
There is a reason this man is a master of the sci-fi genre, don't forget that.
He has a writing style that lends itself to being understood. Not everyone can write sci-fi without explaining a lot of made up technology, or coming up with easy ways to grasp modern theoretical concepts.
He does neither here.
This is simply a well written story, that grasps a piece of everyday humanity.
You do not need to have been born when this was written, there is no popular slang or difficult scientific concepts.
In fact the concepts he uses are still debated today over fifty years later.
I'm not sure if I should be proud of the progress we have made understanding the human mind or appalled at the lack thereof.
If I were appalled then I would have to think that the human mind and brain are the same thing. Well I'm not and I know better, so do you.
When reading this you do not feel as if are reading a contemporary novel written over fifty years ago. Actually considering the theme for this book he'd appreciate that.
Take normal late high school teenage brothers, twins that don't have that sick instant bond that is seen in many novels or horror movies, add twins abilities to have their own communication. Sounds like normal life right?
Now lets make this Science fiction.
Take a research company who sees the potential of having twins speak telepathically to each other aboard research vessels. Discoveries and information is instantaneous.
Its still not quite science fiction.
Take one twin and put him on a space ship and the other stays back on earth, dirtside, while the ship searches for planets to colonize. There will be times when the ship travels close to light speed and then back to relative time. Years pass for one and not the other. How will they keep passing information back and forth if the other dies?
With the instant passing of scientific information scientists can keep up with the frontiersmen.
There is a nice twist at the end of the book about technology and Columbus, mentioning it here will spoil it.
When you have that quick intake of breath that preceeds having realized you just overlooked something obvious, remember I warned you. There is a satisfying ending, with bits of happy.
Everyone should read one of the masters, this is just a good reason why.
ISBN:0345301862
Copyright 1956 by Robert A. Heinlein
There is a reason this man is a master of the sci-fi genre, don't forget that.
He has a writing style that lends itself to being understood. Not everyone can write sci-fi without explaining a lot of made up technology, or coming up with easy ways to grasp modern theoretical concepts.
He does neither here.
This is simply a well written story, that grasps a piece of everyday humanity.
You do not need to have been born when this was written, there is no popular slang or difficult scientific concepts.
In fact the concepts he uses are still debated today over fifty years later.
I'm not sure if I should be proud of the progress we have made understanding the human mind or appalled at the lack thereof.
If I were appalled then I would have to think that the human mind and brain are the same thing. Well I'm not and I know better, so do you.
When reading this you do not feel as if are reading a contemporary novel written over fifty years ago. Actually considering the theme for this book he'd appreciate that.
Take normal late high school teenage brothers, twins that don't have that sick instant bond that is seen in many novels or horror movies, add twins abilities to have their own communication. Sounds like normal life right?
Now lets make this Science fiction.
Take a research company who sees the potential of having twins speak telepathically to each other aboard research vessels. Discoveries and information is instantaneous.
Its still not quite science fiction.
Take one twin and put him on a space ship and the other stays back on earth, dirtside, while the ship searches for planets to colonize. There will be times when the ship travels close to light speed and then back to relative time. Years pass for one and not the other. How will they keep passing information back and forth if the other dies?
With the instant passing of scientific information scientists can keep up with the frontiersmen.
There is a nice twist at the end of the book about technology and Columbus, mentioning it here will spoil it.
When you have that quick intake of breath that preceeds having realized you just overlooked something obvious, remember I warned you. There is a satisfying ending, with bits of happy.
Everyone should read one of the masters, this is just a good reason why.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Circle of magic, Sandry's Book by Tamora Pierce
isbn:0590554085
The circle of magic series is comprised of four books, each telling the story of a young magician with unique abilities. Their lives are intertwined so their stories are as well.
Book one is really an introduction to about how the four of them ended up at Winding Circle to be trained.
They are all from different lives; street thief, noble woman, sea trader child, and a girl abandoned by her relatives. Their unique magics in a world of magicians are; weather magic, metalworking, spirit weaving and plant magic.
They are all characters designed to be easily sympathized with. Any early teenage child will find their thoughts and hopes similar to their own. They deal with all of the normal issues of life in ways we would never have the opportunity to.
The thing that makes this book more interesting than the other children's fantasy books out there is the way the story is told. There are twists and turns that are actually not expected.
Word of advice though if you plan to read it or give this book to a child get all four books the stories do not end at the end of the book.
The circle of magic series is comprised of four books, each telling the story of a young magician with unique abilities. Their lives are intertwined so their stories are as well.
Book one is really an introduction to about how the four of them ended up at Winding Circle to be trained.
They are all from different lives; street thief, noble woman, sea trader child, and a girl abandoned by her relatives. Their unique magics in a world of magicians are; weather magic, metalworking, spirit weaving and plant magic.
They are all characters designed to be easily sympathized with. Any early teenage child will find their thoughts and hopes similar to their own. They deal with all of the normal issues of life in ways we would never have the opportunity to.
The thing that makes this book more interesting than the other children's fantasy books out there is the way the story is told. There are twists and turns that are actually not expected.
Word of advice though if you plan to read it or give this book to a child get all four books the stories do not end at the end of the book.
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Shadowbridge by Gregory Frost
"Shadowbridge" is a ocean, spotted with a few islands and an eternal ribbon of bridges on which people live. Every bridge has its own traditions, its own culture, and its own gods/myths. The bridges are going somewhere but people never seem to travel more than their own bridge. Hence puppeteers, the wandering storytellers that use everything from hand puppets to full body pantomiming.
Our heroine starts her story off like waking in the middle of a fairy tale. She has the hard life and heart break that ultimately give her the push she needs to shove off and get into her new life, her real life. There are reasons she leaves and reasons she cannot be a puppeteer but because of her talent her friends help her hide it. There are hints that her world is reborn after ours destroys itself and that this is a new earth. The new myths are beautifully detailed so that when someone starts talking about a dragon bowl and madness you are only confused until the titbit of information unfolds in the next few pages. Then the next time you hear or see one you understand the dangers and then a whole new set of fears for our heroine reaches you. You want her to win, you want her to succeed because as with any good fairy tale heroine she deserves it. She is well on her way in this first book. read Lord Tophet to see her ending.
I asked Mr. Frost once if the object she finds is a "-----" and was confirmed. read it its page a hundred and something. IF you can tell me what the object is I will confirm. Again I met him at a book signing at Between Books in Claymont Delaware.
Our heroine starts her story off like waking in the middle of a fairy tale. She has the hard life and heart break that ultimately give her the push she needs to shove off and get into her new life, her real life. There are reasons she leaves and reasons she cannot be a puppeteer but because of her talent her friends help her hide it. There are hints that her world is reborn after ours destroys itself and that this is a new earth. The new myths are beautifully detailed so that when someone starts talking about a dragon bowl and madness you are only confused until the titbit of information unfolds in the next few pages. Then the next time you hear or see one you understand the dangers and then a whole new set of fears for our heroine reaches you. You want her to win, you want her to succeed because as with any good fairy tale heroine she deserves it. She is well on her way in this first book. read Lord Tophet to see her ending.
I asked Mr. Frost once if the object she finds is a "-----" and was confirmed. read it its page a hundred and something. IF you can tell me what the object is I will confirm. Again I met him at a book signing at Between Books in Claymont Delaware.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
The Gryphon King
The Gryphon King, Tom Deitz, isbn:0-380-75506-8
The ren faire college crowd meets Tir na nog. Its written well, before mass market paperbacks were only made on an eighth grade reading level.
A man donates his personal library to the University of Georgia. He dies before he can have a chance to save a book and a sword from being excluded from the collection. They are donated. A student drops the book and a manuscript not seen for over five hundred years is found. It is a play about St. George and the devil. Nice huh? Its well worth it for the retelling of that fable alone. The book blends the pressures of dissertations with the King of the faeries (and a war between the true king and the thief) and the local renn faire. Add gryphons, weird fog and some truly dramatic characters and this book is definitely a fun read. Mr. Deitz has a wry sense of humor and an appreciation for the dramatic effect.
I read it in nine hours, mostly because I went back and reread the parts that made me laugh out loud.
The ren faire college crowd meets Tir na nog. Its written well, before mass market paperbacks were only made on an eighth grade reading level.
A man donates his personal library to the University of Georgia. He dies before he can have a chance to save a book and a sword from being excluded from the collection. They are donated. A student drops the book and a manuscript not seen for over five hundred years is found. It is a play about St. George and the devil. Nice huh? Its well worth it for the retelling of that fable alone. The book blends the pressures of dissertations with the King of the faeries (and a war between the true king and the thief) and the local renn faire. Add gryphons, weird fog and some truly dramatic characters and this book is definitely a fun read. Mr. Deitz has a wry sense of humor and an appreciation for the dramatic effect.
I read it in nine hours, mostly because I went back and reread the parts that made me laugh out loud.
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