So Horrifying...
Friday, February 13, 2009
#1 On My Wishlist Right Now...
If you haven't heard already from Suburban Vampire or somewhere else, there is going to be an awesome vampire film festival in New Orleans on Halloween. Visit the site - they have links to the films, vampire interviews, store, and more.
From where I live in sunny California I am only a 31 hour drive away... too bad the entertainment company didn't stay where they are located! Bah! I want to go.
Anyone else out there who wants to, or plans on going?
From where I live in sunny California I am only a 31 hour drive away... too bad the entertainment company didn't stay where they are located! Bah! I want to go.
Anyone else out there who wants to, or plans on going?
Thursday, February 12, 2009
The Vampire's Betrayal
The Vampire’s Betrayal – Book 4 of Raven Hart’s Savannah vampire series is another emotional rollercoaster that has your wondering what will happen next.
As mentioned before, Hart sure has a way to put you on pins and needles while reading her books. Each book never provides closure, which makes you want to hurry and pick up the next one in the series. These aren’t your sappy happy ending stories either. Characters experience real pain and loss and in turn, the reader experiences a whole assortment of emotions. I think another apt title for book for would be “When it Rains it Pours.” The friendly vampires can’t seem to catch a break. First William finds heartache, then Jack. I almost want a happy ending to appear!
As mentioned before, Hart sure has a way to put you on pins and needles while reading her books. Each book never provides closure, which makes you want to hurry and pick up the next one in the series. These aren’t your sappy happy ending stories either. Characters experience real pain and loss and in turn, the reader experiences a whole assortment of emotions. I think another apt title for book for would be “When it Rains it Pours.” The friendly vampires can’t seem to catch a break. First William finds heartache, then Jack. I almost want a happy ending to appear!
If you haven't read this series I would definitely recommend!
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Check out these vampire links!
Dark Side of the Net has a great list of vampire blogs (I'm even on there). Check out the extensive list! They have some other great resources for the vampire lover too.
Now I'm off to San Francisco until Sunday for work!
Now I'm off to San Francisco until Sunday for work!
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Addressing the Twilight vs. True Blood ( and Vampire Kisses) for the Last Time...
I'm writing this because each week I am amazed to see the amount of people that are brought to this blog by searching for the following:
- similarities between twilight and true blood
- twilight vs true blood
- twilight vs sookie
- which came first twilight or sookie stackhouse
- twilight copied sookie stackhouse novels
- twilight or sookie
- sookie stackhouse vs. twilight
- twilight copied vampire kisses
Each week there is a ton of new searches, sooooo I figured I would make all the Sookie, True Blood, Twilight, and Vampire Kisses accessible in one entry (listed newest to oldest):
What Stephen King has to say about Meyer
Charlaine Harris, author of the Sookie Books comments on book similarities
Twilight and True Blood Spoofs
Comparing Twilight, True Blood, Sookie, and other vampire Books
Is True Blood going in the Right Direction?
True Blood Pictures and Videos
True Blood Pilot Episode Changes
Thanks and Enjoy!
The Vampire's Kiss Review
I’ve now finished book 3 of the Savannah vampire series – The Vampire’s Kiss. While I found this book to be not as emotionally jarring as the previous two, Hart sure does have a way of creating suspense and cliff hangers. I was constantly wondering what in the world would happen next.
You can read the summary here.
I won’t give away any spoilers either (unless you ask me personally, I have no qualms).
I have to come clean though – I think this is the only book that I deliberately flipped to the back of the book to read what happens at the end (except maybe some of the Twilight books – for different reasons). It was getting close to bedtime (I need my beauty rest) and I was coming to the climax of the whole thing and I just couldn’t take it. I had to know if everything was going to turn out right.
Now I’m off to read the 4th book! Soon I will have to go and buy the fifth book which came out last week!
You can read the summary here.
I won’t give away any spoilers either (unless you ask me personally, I have no qualms).
I have to come clean though – I think this is the only book that I deliberately flipped to the back of the book to read what happens at the end (except maybe some of the Twilight books – for different reasons). It was getting close to bedtime (I need my beauty rest) and I was coming to the climax of the whole thing and I just couldn’t take it. I had to know if everything was going to turn out right.
Now I’m off to read the 4th book! Soon I will have to go and buy the fifth book which came out last week!
Twilight Gossip
Thanks to Suburban Vampire, I found that it seems like Stephen King didn't have very nice things to say about Stephenie Meyer. USA Weekend Blog had an interview with Stephen King and here is what he had to say about Meyer:
Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. ... The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good."
But then King recalls that when his mom was alive, she read all the Erle Stanley Gardner books, the Perry Mason mysteries, obsessively when he was growing up. "He was a terrible writer, too, but he was very successful," King says. "Somebody who’s a terrific writer who’s been very, very successful is Jodi Picoult. You’ve got Dean Koontz, who can write like hell. And then sometimes he’s just awful. It varies. James Patterson is a terrible writer but he’s very very successful. People are attracted by the stories, by the pace and in the case of Stephenie Meyer, it’s very clear that she’s writing to a whole generation of girls and opening up kind of a safe joining of love and sex in those books. It’s exciting and it’s thrilling and it's not particularly threatening because they’re not overtly sexual. A lot of the physical side of it is conveyed in things like the vampire will touch her forearm or run a hand over skin, and she just flushes all hot and cold. And for girls, that’s a shorthand for all the feelings that they’re not ready to deal with yet."
I find the comments left for the article the most entertaining. Isn't it always that way though? Most of the commentors do say that they aren't hating on Meyer's storytelling, but her writing... which some of her fans have already said "sucks."
Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. ... The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good."
But then King recalls that when his mom was alive, she read all the Erle Stanley Gardner books, the Perry Mason mysteries, obsessively when he was growing up. "He was a terrible writer, too, but he was very successful," King says. "Somebody who’s a terrific writer who’s been very, very successful is Jodi Picoult. You’ve got Dean Koontz, who can write like hell. And then sometimes he’s just awful. It varies. James Patterson is a terrible writer but he’s very very successful. People are attracted by the stories, by the pace and in the case of Stephenie Meyer, it’s very clear that she’s writing to a whole generation of girls and opening up kind of a safe joining of love and sex in those books. It’s exciting and it’s thrilling and it's not particularly threatening because they’re not overtly sexual. A lot of the physical side of it is conveyed in things like the vampire will touch her forearm or run a hand over skin, and she just flushes all hot and cold. And for girls, that’s a shorthand for all the feelings that they’re not ready to deal with yet."
I find the comments left for the article the most entertaining. Isn't it always that way though? Most of the commentors do say that they aren't hating on Meyer's storytelling, but her writing... which some of her fans have already said "sucks."
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