The Monster in Theatre History: This Thing of Darkness
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Monsters are fragmentary, uncertain, frightening creatures. What happens when they enter the realm...
Untitled Harkness
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The spellbinding new novel by Sunday Times Number One bestselling author Deborah Harkness is set in...

From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
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On the run from a bank robbery that left several police officers dead, Seth Gecko (George Clooney)...

Out of Time (Out of Time book 1)
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Professor Simon Cross has spent his life searching for evidence of vampires and avoiding emotional...
Time-travel mystery romance

The Gorgon and other Beastly Tales (Monsters, Men, and Mythic Maidens)
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The Gorgon, a brilliant shocker that leads off this scintillating new collection of Tanith Lee's...

Dark Coven (The Wolfborne Saga #3)
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A Dark Coven Threatens not only the Town, but Everything Zev Knows about the Paranormal. Slaying...
Clean Paranormal Romance

Poison or Protect
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London’s most scandalous lady assassin versus one very hot Highlander. Lady Preshea Villentia,...
werewolves steampunk victorian vampires paranormal supernatural

Jesters_folly (230 KP) rated Robo Vampire (1988) in Movies
Aug 11, 2020
The cover/poster art would have us believe that this is a Robocop vs vampire movie and I suppose that it is in the looses possible sense. First off this is low budget Hong Kong Jiangshi (rotting corpse) movie with added cyborg (Sorry Android Robot) so the vampires are of the hopping type not the western 'gentleman'.
I've given this film a 6 on the basis that it's so bad it's good. Most of the vampires are ok and look like the standard hopping type but the lead vampire seems to be wearing a gorilla mask to make it look rotten. No one bleeds when shot and it's obvious when dummies are used instead of stun doubles . Even taking this into account I would have given Robo Vampire a higher rating but it gets hard to follow. There are two story-lines to follow, the rescue of Sophie, an undercover agent that has been kidnapped and the Tom-robot vs the vampire's and ghost. And this is the first confusing part of the plot. Tom's creators say that he is to be sent on the rescue mission but he is never with the rescue party. Instead he goes off to fight the vampire. So the film switches between the rescue and Tom vs the vampires. Even this wouldn't be a problem except that the story-lines seem to continue even when we're not watching. For example, the rescue party are heading towards the camp with baddies jumping out at them from all directions. The we switch to Robo and when we switch back to the rescue two of the party are swimming in a lake with no sign of any of the others and end up getting captured, then back to Robo, then back the rest of the rescue party who don't even acknowledged that two of their party are missing but aren't surprised when they see them as prisoners. This sort of thing happens a lot, it's almost as if some one just cut out random scenes. Characters also just seem to appear with no introduction and switch sides with no seeming reason.

Deviant Warrior (Dark Warrior Alliance #5)
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Of all the Dark Warriors, Kyran Tarakesh is the most aberrant. Having witnessed the brutal murder...

Merissa (12911 KP) rated Wounded Soul in Books
May 10, 2019
This book a really good read, from the first steamy hot meeting, to the intensity of the psychotic, to the nerve-jangling will he/won't he live (and that's not the 'he' you're thinking of!) Annabelle Jacobs is one of my favourite paranormal romance writers, if only for the fact they are not automatically based in America. I loved her Regent's Park series, and I loved this one just as much. I would love to read more about the characters mentioned in this story, but I have no idea if there is a sequel or series planned.
Either way, this was really well-written, with no editing or grammatical errors that I noticed. The pacing was good, and the connection between the characters was intense. And don't forget the bad guy you love to hate. Definitely recommended by me.
* A copy of this book was provided to me with no requirements for a review. I voluntarily read this book, and the comments here are my honest opinion. *
Merissa
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