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So, read Breaking Dawn this weekend! Stephenie Meyer really knows how to draw you in. Everyone was amazed at how fast I read that book, but I could NOT put it down.

Out of the four Twilights, I would not say this is my favorite… and I did not like the name choices in it (if you have read it, you understand), BUT I did like the story. There were twists and turns I could not and did not even GUESS or think about.

My problem. Where was the violence? People have been saying that there was excessive violence… but except for one gory scene (which was violent, but not in the same way the end of Eclipse was violent), yeah… not a lot. At the end especially I was expecting more violence, and was a little surprised the way it turned out.

Unlike some others, I did REALLY like this book. I thought that the ending was sweet, the little things that happened, the big things that happened, Bella’s discoveries about herself and I loved the side-tracking and preparation she made. No where NEAR enough Alice though.

That is actually my only problem with the Meyer books. The plot lines get so exciting that you don’t get to kick back and hang out with the Cullens, or with Jake and Seth and Leah. Yeah I know BELLA gets to, but I want to TOO! So that is my opinion of Breaking Dawn.

I loved it, it was a great story, and if you want to be psycho mean, please stay away! But if you haven’t read this story YET (and you should of course), eventual comments may have spoilers. The discovery is as much fun as the destination.

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We got a postcard in the mail a while back about a new vampire novel, looks fun!

From the Random House page,

All the official reports say they are dead-extinct since the late ’80s, when a fed named Arkeley nailed the last vampire in a fight that nearly killed him. But the evidence proves otherwise.

When a state trooper named Caxton calls the FBI looking for help in the middle of the night, it is Arkeley who gets the assignment-who else? He’s been expecting such a call to come eventually. Sure, it has been years since any signs of an attack, but Arkeley knows what most people don’t: there is one left. In an abandoned asylum she is rotting, plotting, and biding her time in a way that only the undead can.

Caxton is out of her league on this case and more than a little afraid, but the fed made it plain that there is only one way out. But the worst thing is the feeling that the vampires want more than just her blood. They want her for a reason, one she can’t guess; a reason her sphinxlike partner knows but won’t say; a reason she has to find out-or die trying.

Now there are only 13 bullets between Caxton and Arkeley and the vampires. There are only 13 bullets between us, the living, and them, the damned.

From Publishers Weekly
Minimally plotted and driven by nonstop action, this gory vampire tale is of a piece with Wellington’s zombie novels (Monster Island; Monster Nation). Special deputy Jameson Arkeley stopped a vampire rampage 20 years earlier, during which he whittled down all known bloodsuckers to a single survivor, Justinia Malvern. Kept alive at a sanitarium in rural Pennsylvania by minimal life support and bizarre laws preventing her extermination, wispy Justinia seems a threat to no one—until a series of vampire killings in the area suggest that she has found a secret way to spread her taint. Convinced that Justinia’s minions plan to spring her and revive her to full power, Arkeley commandeers state trooper Laura Caxton to help him find their lair and wipe them out before they can get their vampire queen the blood she needs. A surprisingly anticlimactic finale leaves loose ends that will likely be tied up in subsequent volumes of a projected trilogy. (May)

Have you read it? Let me know what you think.

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I finished Eclipse. (yes a while ago, but summer is busy, what can I say!) Wowsers was it good!

I had ONE MAJOR PROBLEM with it though… I bet a LOT of you shared my dilemma……

I could not IMMEDIATELY sit down and read book 4… other than that, I loved it. Good news Breaking Dawn is scheduled to be released in the fall of 2008, so hope is near… not TERRIBLY near, but near enough.

ABC has a video interview with Stephenie, linked here, and yeah, its a fun interview. :). My favorite line in the interview,

“There are so many heroes out there who have super magical powers and they can do these great things. I identify more easily with someone who is just human. And I think that’s a lot of [Bella's] appeal. All of us can understand being just human.”

Eclipse was wonderful, and don’t forget that Stephenie is touring across the country, and I will be at the Mass signing.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007
at 7:00pm Q & A/signing
Barnes and Noble — LOCATION CHANGE
98 Middlesex Pkwy, Burlington, MA 01803
781/273-3871

Let me know what you think, and if you are going to be at the signing too!

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***Eclipse Quote of the Day*** (7/17/07)
“I think I might have been wrong before, you know, about not being able to be friends. Maybe we could manage it, on my side of the line. Come see me.” — Jacob Black

Oh it just gets my heart a-pumping…
www.stepheniemeyer.com

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Just got the news. Chapter ONE is online!

Yeah, I miss you, too. A lot. Doesn’t change anything.
Sorry
Jacob

In PDF over at stepheniemeyer.com

***Eclipse Quote of the Day*** (7/10/07)
“This hostage stuff is fun.” — Alice Cullen

AUGUST 7TH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

EEP!

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Another Vampire novel you say? NO WAY!!!!

Oh yes. This time we delve into a vampire series that I have not read. First, some background
Anita Blake is a Vampire Hunter. From the Wikipedia article,

Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter is a series of dark fantasy novels by Laurell K. Hamilton, narrated in first person, hard-boiled detective style by the title character, Anita Blake. Anita lives in a fictional Saint Louis much like our own, save that, not only are things like vampires and shapeshifters real, but everyone knows that they’re real and they are considered citizens of America, much like normal humans.

If you want to know where to start with her BOOKS, The Laughing Corpse would be the place to look (1994 though… might be hard to find). However… the point of this post is to discuss Hamilton’s foray into the Comic Book World. Here is info on one of her comics and that gives a couple pages. Cool huh? A line from one of the pages,

I had my gun and I wouldn’t melt in the heat.

Because really… what more is important than that?

(also, she is all Bob Barker on her website, “Don’t forget to spay and neuter your pets.” Gotta love that!!!)

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Ah the joy of soft-core vampire and were-wolf porn. Seriously eh?

Well, let us venture into Kissing Sin. This is the sequel to Full Moon Rising. These are much raunchier than most of my other romance novels. As with FMR, the premise is that were-wolves have to have sex during the full moon. They can shift any time of the month, but sex is a necessity. Our heroine is actually a dhampire. She is half vampire and half were-wolf. Unfortunately, this leaves her with serious fertility problems because vampires cannot procreate. Here is a quote from Keri Arthur’s website,

From Melbourne’s gleaming skyscrapers to its throbbing nightclubs, Riley Jenson’s world is raging with danger and desire. A drop-dead-gorgeous werewolf—with a touch of vamp coursing in her blood—Riley works for an organization created to police the supernatural races. But when she wakes up naked and bruised in a barren alley, she knows only that she must run for her life.

Within moments Riley collides with the sexiest man she’s ever seen: steely, seductive Kade, who is fighting a life-and-death battle of his own. With old lovers and enemies gathering around her, Riley knows she is being pursued by a new kind of criminal. Because in Riley’s blood is a secret that could create the ultimate warrior—if only she can survive her own dangerous desires….

These books are seriously a blood tingling good time. Interestingly, all of the men in Riley’s life are incredibly gorgeous. This book involves an alpha wolf, thousand year old vampire, horse-shifter, and the other just “occasionals.”

Its a good read, with honest character development, and there are some interesting points in this PW review.

From Publishers Weekly
Vampire-werewolf heroine Riley Jensen escapes an unknown enemy’s breeding pens to kick off the second installment of Arthur’s urban fantasy series (following Full Moon Rising). The action and sex come fast and furious as Riley works with her twin brother, her boss at Melbourne’s Directorate of Other Races, as well as most of her lovers (who include a vampire with werewolf issues, a werewolf with mixed loyalties, an alpha werewolf and a horse-shifter) to uncover and derail a nefarious plot to create an army of super-beings. Strong world-building, vivid personalities and the distinctive cultures of each of the various paranormal strains combine for a rich narrative, and Arthur’s descriptive prose adds texture and menace. She also creates strong empathy for Riley, whose vampire half is beginning to assert itself, making her already precarious fertility problems worse. As in her first entry, though, Arthur can occasionally lose her reader amid complicated paranormal plot points, and her publisher’s insistence on marketing her as paranormal romance may frustrate; though the heroine’s multiple sexual partners fit her werewolf nature, they do not fit romance genre conventions and are better suited to readers of erotica/romance hybrids. (Feb.)
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If you like the regular romance genre stuff, then this might not be the series for you. But if you like to kink it out a little bit, then give Keri Arthur and Riley Jensen a chance!

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