VAMPIRE WEEK There really isn’t anything glamorous about being a vampire. There’s no flying, there’s no changing forms, the vampire community frowns on actual killing, and there’s no ‘converting’ anyone else into a vampire. Being a vampire really only entails late nights and stealing blood bags for sustenance. Louise Chao finds being a vampire a… Continue reading

Regular readers of my reviews will know that I have an affinity for the old pulps and pulp fiction.  Is there a better-known example of the pulps than The Shadow? I’ve listened to many of the old radio shows and back in the 1970’s I read a number of the ‘Maxwell Grant’ penned books so… Continue reading

I’ve done it again.  I’ve picked up the third book in a trilogy without having read the previous books in the series.  Sometimes it doesn’t matter too much but in this case I think it was probably vital to have the background of the previous books. Not only am I coming in at the end… Continue reading

Esther is a mother and grandmother. Her son has been kidnapped and she’s headed to The Beyond – an alien landscape between worlds. Time and space react differently here. The Beyond would be difficult enough to traverse but Esther and her Hex (think ‘traveling D&D party of wizards’) have been banned from The Beyond the… Continue reading