Wash ,'War Stories'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
It honestly reads like Buffy-verse stuff, without the woobie-ness. The vampires are pretty menacing.
The Big Bad in the book is a really evil old-but-still-beautiful vamp named Lilith whose biggest regret is not being able to see herself in the mirror. One of the creepier scenes towards the end involve a child vamp--very chilling stuff.
Was it here that people were mocking Jonah Goldberg? Because my friend Leonard is a master Jonah Goldberg-mocker.
Thanks for that link, Corwood.
My pleasure.
it looks like all three books are coming out in a month or two span (the last book is streetdated for Halloween).
Ohhhh... I finished this book a couple of weeks ago. I'm happy the next ones will be out so soon after! I'm a binge Nora Roberts fan - I go through spurts of reading many of her books at once, and then I have to take a break. Right now I'm finishing the O'Hurley series and probably won't come back to her for a while - at least until the next ones in the vamp love series come out.
In fact it's because of NR that I haven't read any of the books in my to-read pile...
La la la. My copy of the new Terry Pratchett novel Wintersmith turned up in the mail today. It was wonderful. I really do think Tiffany is my favorite character of his.
:whimper:
I told myself to wait until the next con to buy Wintersmith. That's just under three weeks away. sigh...
Jilli, I cannot recommend The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl. Even as a huge comics fan, I can't recommend it. "Goth" is code for "emotionally troubled," and Fanboy is mostly a whiner.
Stoner & Spaz, by Ron Koertge, did the trope of geeky-outsider-boy-meets-edgy-rebellious-girl MUCH better.
And as for contemporary books about how high school/the teen years suck ASS, well, I would say that BTVS ruined me for any further fiction about high school sucking. I set the bar pretty high.
"Goth" is code for "emotionally troubled," and Fanboy is mostly a whiner.
Gnnnng. Okay then, I'll give it a miss.
Stoner & Spaz was much better than I expected it to be. well done.