Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Mina Murray Vampire Hunter (or it is ‘Dracula’ but not)

The Madness by Dawn Kurtagich

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Firstly, I picked this book to read because I saw two of the characters had the names of Mina and Lucy,  with Lucy struck down by a mysterious illness.  Then the book flap mentioned “terrible, ancient truths” and “an evil beyond comprehension.” and I  read between the lines and thought that this was going to be some kind of Dracula situation.  And I am here for various takes on Dracula.  And this book is that!  But it is also its own thing, borrowing some names, […]

Wait. So now I have to read ‘Jane Eyre’?

Reluctant Immortals by Gwendolyn Kiste

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Reluctant Immortals opens with an opening line that is just … *chefs kiss*; “It’s almost sundown in Los Angeles, and Dracula’s ashes won’t shut up.” The book is set in 1967 California, splitting most of the action between Los Angeles and the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, with a few spots visited in between. It is the Summer of Love and also yet just another summer for Lucy Westnera and Bertha (Bea) Mason, who are the immortals of the book title. Lucy comes from the […]

Not my kind of horror

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I just don’t see how the person who wrote the pretty darn good The Secrets of Drearcliff-Grange School could write this mess. I only half read Anno Dracula. At page 152, I realized I was starting to hate all the characters, started skimming to see if/when things might improve. They do not; I got to the end, and never took a liking to anyone or anything going on. It’s kinda too bad, since the premise isn’t bad. Basically, most of the crew of Stoker’s original […]



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