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Advantages: Helps fillmy recycle bin
Disadvantages: Sheer rubbish

I don't know if you know about the writer Laurell K. Hamilton she is a US writer best-known for her series Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter. Merry Gentry is the title character of a new fantasy series There are eight books in the series, that is eight too ma ...

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Fairy Frolics (Swallowing Darkness - Laurell K. Hamilton)

Advantages: fun, occasionally
Disadvantages: awful writing

Summary: reasonably enjoyable if there is nothing better, lively, trashy fantasy "Swallowing Darkness" is the seventh Meredith Gentry novel and the first one I read. Despite that I had no problems at all in following the plot - even though there isn't ...

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It's time for Merry to Swallow Darkness

Advantages: Good paced read, Lots of action
Disadvantages: None really

The Author Laurell K Hamilton is a bestselling author and has been on the New York bestselling author with this book and previous others. She lives in St Louis, Missouri with her daughter and husband Jon. She writes two major series, the first is ...

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Once bitten, forever smitten

Advantages: Gripping storyline, great characters, a brilliant twist on conventional vampires
Disadvantages: If you get hooked, there are a lot of sequels to get through... not that I consider that a disadvantage myself

...Having been a fan of several horror writers, I've found myself in the horror section of book shops many times. On many such occasions I noticed Brian Lumley's Necroscope series occupying a fair bit of shelf space. Eventually I was curious enough to look f ...

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Review of Necroscope - Brian Lumley

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Clumsy prose winds around an imaginative tale

Advantages: A splendid thriller, and the most innovative take on vampires thatyou'll read...
Disadvantages: Clumsy, unsubtle prose...

If you've been in a bookstore's horror section in the past fourteen or so years, at least in Britain, then you've almost certainly seen 'Necroscope' sitting on the shelves there, George Underwood's strikingly grotesque cover leaping out at you. 'Necrosco ...

RichardW 22.07.2000 · Read full review
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Review of Necroscope - Brian Lumley

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