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Kushiel’s Dart May Strike True, But It Takes a Damn Long Time to Get There

January 18, 2016 by Quorren 1 Comment

I had some weird, odd deja vu  going on reading this one.  It tripped a bunch of nostalgia centers in my brain, but since I’m positive I’ve never read it before, I’m going to chalk it up to this being a book I would have LOVED in high school.  (Not that that’s a slight on the book or anything, but it totally would have fit right into my geometry book once I finished reading about the vampire Lestat during class instead of memorizing the Pythagorean […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: alternative history, jacqueline carey, kushiel's dart, Quorren

Quorren's CBR8 Review No:3 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: alternative history, jacqueline carey, kushiel's dart, Quorren ·
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The bloody alt-history begun in “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” continues…

June 29, 2015 by TylerDFC Leave a Comment

The best way to describe The Last American Vampire is “Forrest Gump with vampires”. Picking up where Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter ended, this new book changes focus to Henry Sturges and we see much more of his life before Abe came on the scene. The alternative history set up in the first book continues here. To briefly recap, vampires are real and have been shaping history for centuries. The American Civil War was fueled by vampires trying to secure a never ending source of food […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, History Tagged With: alternative history, CBR7, horror, Seth Grahame-Smith, The Last American Vampire, TylerDFC

TylerDFC's CBR7 Review No:17 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, History · Tags: alternative history, CBR7, horror, Seth Grahame-Smith, The Last American Vampire, TylerDFC ·
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