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REVIEW: ‘The Dreaming’ Written & Illustrated by Queenie Chan

Jan 5th

Posted by Avid Reader in Book Reviews

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The Dream­ing is a graphic novel writ­ten and illus­trated by Quee­nie Chan, pub­lished by Toky­opop. It is a self-contained story and com­pleted in 3 vol­umes.
As other read­ers have noted, this manga is not typ­i­cal. First of all it is set in Aus­tralia and sec­ondly, it is writ­ten by a Chinese-Australian author. The Dream­ing can be best described

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REVIEW: The Society of S, Susan Hubbard

Apr 22nd

Posted by Avid Reader in Book Reviews

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The Soci­ety of S by Susan Hub­bard reads like a mod­ern day vam­pire story and a com­ing of age story with 13 year-old Ariella Mon­tero nar­rat­ing. Is there such a thing as a lit­er­ary vam­pire novel? Ms. Hub­bard cer­tainly writes her tale in a schol­arly fash­ion but her vam­pire tale really doesn’t add any­thing “new” to a genre sat­u­rated with vampire

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REVIEW: Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

Mar 19th

Posted by Avid Reader in Book Reviews

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Dead Until Dark (South­ern Vam­pire Mys­ter­ies, No. 1) by Char­laine Har­ris, pub­lished in 2001, is the first book in the South­ern Vam­pire mys­tery series. Sookie Stack­house, a bar­maid from Bön Temps, Louisiana, nar­rates the story.
Sookie has a gift: she can read minds. She con­sid­ers her telepa­thy a dis­abil­ity because many of the towns­peo­ple con­sider her

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REVIEW: Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz

Jun 11th

Posted by Avid Reader in Book Reviews

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Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz (2003) is the first book in the Odd Series.  Koontz is a writer whose work is often hard to clas­sify some­times. Some of the work he writes are straight up hor­ror sto­ries and some are not. 
Odd Thomas is a story in between where you have a blend of para­nor­mal aspects mixed with suspense. The story is nar­rated by the lead character

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REVIEW: Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman

Dec 21st

Posted by Avid Reader in Book Reviews

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Pre­ludes and Noc­turnes by Neil Gaiman. Where does one even begin? I was curi­ous about Mr. Gaiman’s Sand­man series as I’m told repeat­edly, that’s it’s pop­u­lar. I had bought  End­less Nights not real­iz­ing that it was not the first vol­ume in the series. I rushed back to the store and got a copy of Pre­ludes and Noc­turnes. Here is

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REVIEW: Lightning by Dean Koontz

Nov 24th

Posted by Avid Reader in Book Reviews

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It’s been years, YEARS since I read a Dean Koontz novel. I haven’t read any of his cur­rent books in quite some­time. Maybe some­one can give me a rec or two of his work? Of all the three books I’ve read by him back to back to back, I remem­ber Light­ning quite fondly. Do you like time travel? Adven­ture? Action?
The book is shelved in horror

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