Barb, that description reads like someone took a handful of words that describe the trends/content of paranormal fiction and just threw them at a computer to see which ones would stick. Not just battling a Frankenstein monster, but battling a Frankenstein monster for the werewolf mob! Not just battling a Frankenstein monster for the werewolf mob, but battling a Frankenstein monster for the werewolf mob while rescuing her lover from vampires! And the lover, incidentally, apparently dowses for the dead? Or IS dead and dowses (while dead)?
Paranormal word salad.
That reminds me that the killer unicorn book finally came out last week.
Ooh, speaking of killer unicorns I was watching
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
yesterday (and if you haven't seen it, you all should as it's super stylish art deco gothic mayhem and archly funny) and the Death By Unicorn scene was flippin' hilarious.
What's making me crazy is the relentless mashing together of all the different monsters-- it's like vampires alone are no longer good enough. There has to be vampires + werewolves + Frankenstein monster + wereslugs + the mob + slayers + investigative agencies + Mary Kay ladies, et al.
I like your idea, Hec.
ETA: Clearly, Teppy and I share a brain.
What's making me crazy is the relentless mashing together of all the different monsters-- it's like vampires alone are no longer good enough.
::cough::
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I ::coughed:: too soon!
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
I ADORE those two movies. I've owned them FOREVER (actually, my 2nd and 3rd DVD purchases, after "Dark City")
I'm tired of vampires and zombies.
Time for faeries!
That reminds me that the killer unicorn book finally came out last week.
Dude. I see it is called
Rampant.
And is YA. The excerpt is not terribly compelling, but it does have killer unicorns...
Barb, that description reads like someone took a handful of words that describe the trends/content of paranormal fiction and just threw them at a computer to see which ones would stick.
It really does sound like Paranormal Fiction Mad Libs.
Dude. I see it is called Rampant. And is YA. The excerpt is not terribly compelling, but it does have killer unicorns...
::sigh::
That book depresses the shit out of me. (The author is A Nemesis with a massive superiority complex.) She got a huge deal for that book and to add insult to injury, it released on my birthday.
I just wish they'd left it with the crappy cover they initially designed for it. Because I'm mean that way.
I ADORE those two movies. I've owned them FOREVER (actually, my 2nd and 3rd DVD purchases, after "Dark City")
Aren't they fab? Love the clockwork jazz band, death by frog head and Price snootily sorting through the brussel sprouts and pitching the ones which won't work for the fabulous Locust Enticing Elixir.
Vulnavia is probably my all-time favorite mad villain assistant, though Tom Waits as Renfield is also pretty awesome.
And the lover, incidentally, apparently dowses for the dead? Or IS dead and dowses (while dead)?
I think the latter, though I still have no idea what the fuck that's supposed to mean. All the words look familiar, but in that order it's just word salad.
