by Barbara Hambly
Adventures of Superhero Girl by Faith Erin Hicks: I really enjoy Faith Erin Hicks’ work. Although Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong remains my favorite of her books to date, Adventures of Superhero Girl is a marvelous, wry take on the life of a superhero. Superhero Girl has a roommate and struggles with...
Terrible cover, intriguing story. I really enjoyed it.
3.5 starsVampires without the romance. Very refreshing. Well drawn historical setting in late 19th or early 20th century London and Paris. James Asher, a professor of philology at Oxford, and his wife Lydia, also a doctor, but of medicine, are reluctantly coerced into investigating the case of a ...
This was an ok book. I expected more of a horror novel than it was. It read more like a mystery/detective novel with vampires as the them. I rated it lower because it seemed to drag for me but it picked up at the end.
There seems to be a trend in current dark fantasy novels, and that is of the misunderstand vampire lover. Most vampires in popular fiction today tend to be romantic leads. There is Twilight, what is so attractive about making love too a walking corpse? Wouldn't it be cold? Additionally, the vamp...
Oooh. Hambly is very good at characterization, and I always find myself intrigued by her characters. She seems to like taking fantasy tropes and twisting them a bit—not in an annoying, Piers Anthony way of punning and “ooh look how clever and cheeky we are, playing with these stereotypes,” but inste...
A pretty decent Victorian vampire novel. Nothing exceptional, but certainly better than most vampire novels on the shelf today.
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