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Eternal Hunger

Laura Wright

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Alexander Roman wants nothing to do with the controlling rulers of his vampire breed, but as a new...

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Sara Paretsky

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Carmilla, Queen of the Night, is a shape-shifting raven whose fictional exploits thrill girls all...

LeftSideCut (3778 KP) rated What We Do In The Shadows (2014) in Movies

Sep 27, 2020

What We Do in the Shadows is just great.

Pretty much every line of dialogue is hilarious, and very subtle most of the time.
There's a lot of funny dry humour here, excentuated wholeheartedly by the New Zealand accent.
Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement are fantastic both behind and in front of camera, and the rest of the cast, in particular Cori Gonzalez-Macuer and Jonny Brugh are brilliant as well. Special kudos to Stu Rutherford for giving us a character that even vampires don't want to die.

The horror element is pretty good also. It plays on many vampire tropes well still managing to be suitably bloody when it needs to be.

What We Do in the Shadows is just an all round wonderful movie, something I find myself thinking for most things that Taika Waititi touches.

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Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Immoral: Tales of a Vampire Hunter (#1) in Books

Jan 12, 2021

DNF at 39%

When I saw this advertised on one of the many e-book discount emails I get, I thought it sounded really good and I downloaded it straight away. When I started it, I still thought it was pretty good. It just kinda went a bit downhill from there.

There was no build up to any of the sex. It was like meet, say a few words, go back to the hotel and have sex. I didn't get it.

Then came the second vampire. There was just an instant connection and instead of fighting it because you're mortal enemies, you run off together...? I gave up after that.

I didn't feel a connection to the characters or for their "relationship". Not for me at all. I like to read the romance and I couldn't find it in this.

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Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated A Shade of Blood (A Shade of Vampire #2) in Books

Aug 25, 2020

A Shade of Blood (A Shade of Vampire #2)

Bella Forrest | 2020 | Paranormal, Romance, Young Adult (YA)

8.0

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Summary. When Sofia Claremont was kidnapped to a sunless island, uncharted by any map and ruled by the most powerful vampire coven on the planet, she believed she'd forever be a captive of its dark ruler, Derek Novak. Now, after months of surviving an endless night, the morning sun may soon rise again for Sofia.

Took me a bit longer to get into the second one as the first didn’t jump in to my memories as fast as the other books I read do! The first book was a bit underwhelming and a bit rushed. This one was so much better I love that Derek still has his dark side not like most vampires written. I had a feeling I knew who Sofia’s dad was but I didn’t see it coming about her mum! Certainly sets it up for an interesting 3rd book.