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The Drayton Chronicles — Tony Bertauski
Drayton, the Taker
Bearing the Cross
Swift is the Current
Yellow
Numbers
Tony’s Page
#vampires #tonybertauski
A Shrewdness of Swindlers — DeAnna Knippling
DeAnna sent me an ARC to have a read and comment on, with the caveat that she still had some polishing to do. So yes, there were a few things that still needed some work with the copy i received, but all in all, it was a very enjoyable read. And then, having sent my notes to Deanna, she then sent me an updated version back with my little moans all sorted out.
What i liked most-est about this book is that instead of the the usual bunch of short stories thrown randomly into a collection, DeAnna has taken time to tie all these stories together with a frame story. Each short is given its own character to tell it in a magical, story contest in a downstairs backroom of a speakeasy: which just happens to be organised by one of the Fae who we’re told really like to collect human stories.
But one of the story tellers is murdered just before the contest with the suspect most probably being one of the tellers at the table, which makes things more interesting.
Best of all, it’s a good collection of characters and a good collection of stories for you to enjoy, with a prize at the end for the best story.
DeAnna’s Page
#vampires #scifi #fantasy #deannaknippling
Blackwood Farm — Anne Rice
Blood And Gold — Anne Rice
Memnoch The Devil — Anne Rice
Taltos — Anne Rice
Lasher — Anne Rice
The Vampire Lestat — Anne Rice
The Witching Hour — Anne Rice
The Tale of the Body Thief — Anne Rice
Vittorio, The Vampire — Anne Rice
Blood Canticle — Anne Rice
The Vampire Armand — Anne Rice
Pandora — Anne Rice
Merrick — Anne Rice
Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis — Anne Rice
Blood Communion — Anne Rice
Prince Lestat — Anne Rice
I Am Legend — Richard Matheson
So i got 23% into this book and i simply cannot take another page of this.
Stupid, alcoholic, smoking, crap eating, sad, miserable idiot getting chased by lots of vampires. Woohoo! Yes folks, another dull and boring vampire story, only difference from the norm is that this one is post-apocalyptic as the vampires have wiped out all humans apart from this one pathetic, sad alcoholic.
Seriously, if you had the daylight hours of every day to do whatever you want, go wherever you want, you have the whole world and its contents at your disposal before the vampires came out at night to hunt and all you could think to do was live like this sad twat because you’re a pathetic, miserable alcoholic, then you may as well just throw yourself into the vampire’s grasp and get it over with. Stop torturing yourself, and most of all, stop torturing us poor readers who have large “To Read” piles to get through.
I have no idea about the rest of the book, but the first quarter of it has no sci-fi whatsoever in it. How this has managed to get itself into “SF Masterworks” is quite beyond me. I suppose there always has to be the bottom of pile, hopefully this is it because i’m going to despair if there are any worse books than this in the series.