I don't know how this happened, I'm not an admirer of these stories,
yet I picked up four of them (yes! four!) at the library. So I read
them, and for the most part have enjoyed them, although if I never read
another one about a zombie I'll be very pleased. Here's my reviews; I
hope you enjoy them.
THE RADLEYS, by Matt Haig, chronicles the angst of abstaining vampires and the falsity that characterizes their lives. I loved this one, the writing was clean and illuminating (vampires? angst? yes!), the characters very compelling. It's a 5.
THE BUNTLINE SPECIAL, by Mike Resnick, puts Thomas Edison in Tombstone AZ in time for the Gunfight at the OK Corral. Alternative history/western/fantasy/vampire, I guess you'd call it. Prolific, award-winning author Resnick has brought together the Earps, Bat Masterson, assorted criminals and gunslingers (including a zombie named Johnny Ringo), a lot of magic, Edison's inventions, and Geronimo as a magician. It's a 3.5.
PARIAH, by Bob Fingerman. I wanted to finish this, as the premise is fascinating and the characters - all stuck in a New York apartment building as zombies down on the street wait to starve them out - are varied and very well drawn, although several are totally unsympathetic. But I just don't like zombies. Maybe you do, and if so this is an excellent read, I'll give it a 4, but don't ask me to justify that for something I couldn't even finish. I guess it's like being given a fab bottle of wine but being unable to drink it all?
CASTING SPELLS, by Barbara Bretton is reviewed elsewhere on its own, but it's a great romance touched by magick and populated by every kind of odd critter ever invented. It's an 4.5...even more if you like magic stories.
THE RADLEYS, by Matt Haig, chronicles the angst of abstaining vampires and the falsity that characterizes their lives. I loved this one, the writing was clean and illuminating (vampires? angst? yes!), the characters very compelling. It's a 5.
THE BUNTLINE SPECIAL, by Mike Resnick, puts Thomas Edison in Tombstone AZ in time for the Gunfight at the OK Corral. Alternative history/western/fantasy/vampire, I guess you'd call it. Prolific, award-winning author Resnick has brought together the Earps, Bat Masterson, assorted criminals and gunslingers (including a zombie named Johnny Ringo), a lot of magic, Edison's inventions, and Geronimo as a magician. It's a 3.5.
PARIAH, by Bob Fingerman. I wanted to finish this, as the premise is fascinating and the characters - all stuck in a New York apartment building as zombies down on the street wait to starve them out - are varied and very well drawn, although several are totally unsympathetic. But I just don't like zombies. Maybe you do, and if so this is an excellent read, I'll give it a 4, but don't ask me to justify that for something I couldn't even finish. I guess it's like being given a fab bottle of wine but being unable to drink it all?
CASTING SPELLS, by Barbara Bretton is reviewed elsewhere on its own, but it's a great romance touched by magick and populated by every kind of odd critter ever invented. It's an 4.5...even more if you like magic stories.
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