Jul. 5th, 2015

bookfrog: (Vachel)
Rose was killed by a serial killer on prom night, and now she's a hitchhiking ghost and part-time psychopomp.

The guy who killed Rose used to be a movie star, but he made a deal with some dark powers to live forever. The fact that he has to kill to do this doesn't deter him in the slightest.

But Rose is the one who got away. And he's looking for her..

Great writing in this book, but it was kind of disjointed and even slightly anti-climactic.

I still enjoyed it.
bookfrog: (Vachel)
Problem #1: the protagonist of this book is named Quincie Morris.

I requested this from the libary a while ago, but wasn't interested and never read it.

So it was kind of weird when the book showed up in my requests again. Weird enough that I went ahead and read it anyway.

Quincie's parents died so she is under the care of her uncle. The two of them are trying to update their restaurant's image so it won't go under, and Quincie's uncle wants it to have a vampire theme.

The head chef is murdered, and the new guy is kinda weird. Also, Quincie's new boyfriend is half-werewolf and he'll have to leave soon.

Story was kind of cheesy & predictable.
bookfrog: (Vachel)
This is the sequel to Slugs, because of course there's a sequel.

Man-eating slugs are all over London. Even touching the slime will fuck you up, causing illness and what seems to be an allergic reaction, followed by psychosis and death. Fun!

Hutson knows how to fuck with your mind by writing sex scenes that wind up slug brunches, but more than once is really kind of cheating.

Cheesy, gross, readable.

I read this for the movie-watching contest I've been entering for the past three Junes.
bookfrog: (Vachel)
Here we have a big collection of short stories that I just.. REALLY liked. There was only one story in the whole volume that wasn't to my taste.

All of the stories fall somewhere on the fantasy/horror spectrum and I will be reading other work by these authors.
bookfrog: (Vachel)
Okay, this book is clearly marketed as horror, but I read the whole damn thing wondering why. What was the author getting at?

I guess the horror element is supposed to be the supernatural creature that goes around encouraging people in this family to do bad shit, but.. it just seems to me that a lot of people will do those things without a supernatural reason.

So what you're left with is a really disjointed family saga or some shit.

Well enough-written, but plotwise this book is a complete mess.

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