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Dead in the Family: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood) by Charlaine Harris Sookie Stackhouse, like many of Bon Temps, Louisiana residents, remains in shock as much from the torture she received as from the grief she feels following the fae war that left so many Dead and Gone. Among those who died is
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The Sorcerer’s House by Gene Wolfe “The Sorcerer’s House” was super-fun; now “pure fun” and Gene Wolfe is something that is usually incongruous since his books like the awesome three Sun series are dark and demanding, but this one is just a zany novel end to end. A holder of 2 PhD’s – for reasons
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Out of the Blue by S.L. Rottman Stu’s mother is a Lt. Colonel in the US Air Force and he moves with her to Minot, North Dakota when she takes over the position of base commander there. OUT OF THE BLUE paints a picture of both the sacrifices military personnel and their dependents have to
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The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan I’ll admit, I have been disappointed with the paranormal YA novels I’ve read lately. I’ve read some great novels, but many of the hyped, popular novels that everyone else has loved have fell flat for me. I knew I wanted to read The Forest of Hands
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The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova To start with the good points: Holy cow, can Kostova write some gorgeous descriptive prose! Describing painting has to be second only to describing music in terms of difficulty, but Kostova is so good at describing the various artworks that she mentions that even I, with my extremely limited
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The New Dead: A Zombie Anthology Edited by Christopher Golden In his foreword to this anthology (titled ‘The New Dead’ if you’re in the US), Christopher Golden asks his reader what the big deal about zombies is these days. That’s quite a brave move to make considering that the foreword comes just before a whole
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There’s nothing more important to writing a successful novel than identifying the key problem of the story. Find out how easy it is.
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Retromancer by Robert Rankin Retromancer returns us to the adventures of Rizla and that paragon of perfection, Hugo Rune. The story begins with young Rizla awakening to discover that not only has the past been changed by evil forces and the Nazis have won the war, but he is also now expected to get a
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My Dead Body: A Novel by Charlie Huston For some reason I’ve never really understood the whole “I’ve become a monster and I hate myself” school of vampire psychology so I was well pleased with the Joe’s internal monologue where he hates himself for the fact that he is a despicable person and in no
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Kell’s Legend by Andy Remic “Kell’s Legend” is a worthy praise offered to its source of inspiration, fully packed with action and fighting scenes and flavored with an amount of violence and gore that will put even some of the horror novels to shame. The pages fly past the reader, because Andy Remic sets a
Dead Until Dark (Southern Vampire Mysteries, No. 1) by Charlaine Harris
Writing a Great Novel – The Secret Every Writer Needs to Know
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There’s nothing more important to writing a successful novel than identifying the key problem of the story. Find out how easy it is.