A very important lesson was learned while reading Handling the Undead by John Ajvide Lindqvist: Just because a Swedish zombie novel is not the Swedish zombie novel I wanted to read, nor the one I…
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Jodie’s Top Ten 2009
10. The Fractured Fairy Tales of Lynn Roberts: Ms. Roberts, along with her illustrator brother, give us three charming renditions of some old classics. Cinderella as an 1920's flapper girl, Rapunzel as a long-haired hippie…
Awkward adolescent vampire love
I am a sucker for vampire novels (pardon the pun). I love them, pure and simple. Some are clich? and try too hard, e.g. Mary Janice Davidson's “Undead” series. But some, like John Ajvide Lindqvist’s…
Take that, Twilight
I read an interview with Stephenie Meyer, writer of the Twilight series, where she said something about how she had taken liberties with the classic vampire story because she was writing fiction and there are…