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Dashiell Aldridge is a private investigator. Who just happens to be an expert in occult phenomena. His adventures are wrought with suspense, mystery and magic. . . .
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Tales of MU is an open-ended serial detailing the college life of one Mackenzie Blaise, a university student in a world where our fantasy is reality and our science is fantasy. Moving from her sheltered existence as an outcast and self-professed geek into the wild, wide world of Magisterius University, Mackenzie narrates her own story for us in a style . . .
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In the August of their twelfth year, Will Colven and Gaby Rice were hunted by invisible hounds. Under the care of Will’s family, they fled from town to town, from motel to motel, unable to rest, unable to seek help. Their separation ended the hunt, but not the questions. Who was after them? What did they want? What other kinds . . .
overall 10 votes:
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City of Roses is about what happens when Jo Maguire, a highly strung underemployed telemarketer, meets Ysabel Perry, a princess of unspecifiable pedigree. It’s also about hearts broken cleanly and otherwise, the City of Portland, Spenser, those moments in pop songs when the bass and all of the drums except maybe a handclap suddenly drop out of the bridge leaving . . .
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Regan St. James is just your typical eighteen-year-old vampire hunter. He enjoys sharp objects and random hook-ups. But one night, in a quiet little mountain college town, he meets a guy named Ira who just might change his life. If he can survive Ira’s relatives, of course. . . .
overall 28 votes:
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Addergoole is a contemporary fantasy story with erotic and dark-fantasy elements. Set in a world which is, on the surface, much like our own, Addergoole follows three students as they enter a strange, new school and discover just how much they don’t know about themselves, their parents, or their world. . . .
overall 7 votes:
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Peter Normal leaves California and moves into his grandfather’s house with his mother and sister. Upon arriving he discovers that his grandfather’s house looks like something out of a horror movie, that his grandfather forbids him to go into the garden, and that the neighbor boy is a bit off the wall. He also discovers that the undead thing . . .
overall 9 votes:
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Welcome to Curio Killed the Cat—an occult shop in Kensington Market, Toronto. Meet the employees (a lazy hoodoo spellcaster, a feminist succubus, and a snobbish Wiccan priest), their perpetually drunk (and confused) boss, and their strange customers, as they try to keep the shop from closing. . . .
overall 9 votes:
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The world is exactly as you know it. No, really it is. Except that your landlord might be a spirit, the tree outside your window may be a nymph, that flash in the sky wasn’t a trick of the light and that guy in the suit might just not be a bored lawyer on his lunch break. . . .
overall 30 votes:
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Faolan runs our family with an iron fist. As a rule, he takes what he wants, and mows down anyone who gets in his way. Or sends Cormac to do it for him. But maybe that’s what it is to be First. Thing is, what he wants now is Keaira, whom I love. He’s says he needs her . . .
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Astrid Fray is a perfectly normal teenager, except for the fact that she’s also a demon. Coming into her full powers at the age of seventeen has presented many problems, not the least of which is the inability to kiss her long time crush Logan without feeding on his soul, and being taken away from her family by Farron, a . . .
overall 4 votes:
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Nothing interesting ever happens in the small town of Pitt Creek. Even when magic suddenly becomes a tangible force—and hundreds of thousands of people worldwide transform into animals and mythological creatures—the Changes’ closest approach is as dramatic video footage on the 6 o’clock news. Kevin MacArthur and his friends want to be a part of that—to have their lives . . .
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The main character of this story is a vampire, but not your traditional True Blood, Twilight, Buffy vampire. The main character of this story believes, for whatever reason, that she siphons energy out of other people, drawing in their life force in order to supplement her own. She feeds on them in hot, intense, seductive sexual encounters that leaves them . . .
(Review written after reading chapters 1-3.1).
The "stalker" element in chapter one was kind of off-putting, particularly as the sensible thing to do when someone is bothering you is threaten them with a restraining order and/or go to the cops. It also had an unpleasant "Twilight" connotation to it.
I started off with the three part, short story called ‘Memento Vivere’ and chuckled my way through to the end. There is an irreverent humour here that is very engaging and comes entirely from the main character, Father Dylan Shute himself. The author isn’t kidding that he’s mildly heretical and very unorthodox. Every chapter had memorable, quotable parts but I’ll [more . . .]