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Alain Beaudreaux, a vampire, loved a mortal woman for 64 years. Now she’s in Heaven and he’s determined to join her, but he’ll have to go through Hell to do it. Kurt Grey, a junior copywriter, hit on the wrong woman at the wrong time. Now he’s been thrown through a portal into Hell and has an angry vampire . . .
The first thing that struck me about this story is that the author is very good at setting scene and tone. I’ve gotten very clear mental pictures of the action and setting so far, everywhere from a bar where everything is tinted deep blue to a polar cavern in a zoo. The slightly on edge, spooky feeling that something is [more . . .]
There have been few reviews of this story in the past two years, so I registered to write one. And maybe a few others. We’ll see how this goes. A word of warning: Tales of MU is extremely long; to write a review which does not adequately address the full body of this work would not do it justice, so [more . . .]
I stumbled on this novel late one night after looking for hours on forums for some fantasy fiction worth my while.
While I do not consider myself too picky when it comes to fiction, I find reading online too be too tiring and I usually get bored easily. I can’t say [more . . .]
"Domina City" is a manmade floating city with bizarre inhabitants. The citizens use biotech to have "buffs" that make them look like angels, demons and vampires, among other things. They can earn money by taking tasks from a computerized job board. The main character and his room-mate use it to get a job catching a rat, which is a common [more . . .]
"A Runner’s Diary" takes place in a post-disaster zombie infestation setting, like numerous other stories. So that was a star deduction. There are enough serials and movies in this mileu that writers should know they have to be compelling to bother, and fairly original to garner attention.
This story has nothing [more . . .]
"Of Vice and Virtue" sounds like it could be a Jane Austen title. Austen’s novels show some of the intricacies of relationships and families. While this story shares in some of those themes, and comes across as old fashioned, it has none of the nuance of a classic.
The writing relies [more . . .]
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