Sunday July 29th 2012

As I mentioned the other day, I had planned on doing a blogathon today over on my movie year challenge blog.
Here' is the link to the post I did.

All I can say is at this point I'm disappointed.

Classic Monsters blogathon

I'm trying to scare up some new blood for a monster blogathon I'm having next week over on my all year movie challenge blog.
The details are simple... pick 2 classic style monster films from any decade and on July 29th 2012 crawl on over to my other blog.  Here's the link

While I'm here, I'll just mention that I saw the vampire film  Midnight Son the other day,  it was part of the challenge so ... here's that link too

Wait till Your Vampire Gets Home-review

Book #4 in the Broken Heart series by Michele Bardsley.

Plot:  A paranormal investigator shows up in Broken Heart just in time to be attacked by two dragons in the middle of a deadly fight.  But she's not the only one, a recently turned vampire who was hanging around the tomb of his late wife, also finds himself caught.  Soon both are running from the one dragon while fighting their own passion for each other.

By introducing an entire new set of characters to the mythos, Bardsley manages to bring her series back from the edge {yeah my last post I talked about not caring that much for book #3}
Not much is really given about the already established characters from the first half of the series, but it does draw you in quickly.

The books in this series are easy to understand, they don't take themselves overly seriously but still manage to not be cheesy.  {if you're a fan of Buffy or Charmed you will understand what I mean} They are also highly addictive.

Because Your Vampire Said So- review

This is book 3 in the Broken Heart series by Michele Bardsley.

Plot:  Patsy the vampire who runs the local beauty salon, has just been told that she's the center of a prophecy.  Soon she's being hunted by half the Ancients, and finds herself able to copy their powers.  Can she handle suddenly being the queen of the undead, and keep her teenaged son in rehab?

I loved books 1 and 2 of the series, but this one left me cold.  It just felt way too Army of Darkness for me. {there is literally a scene where the lead character raised an army of zombies}

I don't know if this book was meant to be the end of the series originally, or if the author was just going through something major in her life and decided to make it as serious as she could? But it just felt out of place with the rest of the mythos already created in the other two books.

Don't Talk Back To Your Vampire -review

The second book in the popular Broken Heart  series by Michele Bardsley, is Don't Talk Back to Your Vampire.

Plot: Eva is a single mom who's been turned into a vampire like half the people in her small suburb. Her and her daughter are now being threatened by a group of rouge vampires and lycans.  As her powers grow, so does her attraction to the vampire prince.


I literally read this book in less then five hours.  I just could not put it down.
The author combines a modern 'reality' perfectly with Irish myth. You're drawn into the world completely with every sentence.  It's got a slight soap opera feel to it but that is what makes it so enjoyable.

There are a few scattered sex scenes, but thankfully they are so skillfully scattered and well written that it heightens the plot; and does not overwhelm the reader. {unlike so many other so called vampire stories that just feed you sex for no reason}

I originally did a review of the first book in the series on my old blog which you can read here

Vampire High- DVD

The 2001-2002 Canadian vampire soap was released not too long ago on DVD.
I just tracked down a copy. 

I was very disappointed to find out that there are no extras, and worst of all; only 3 episodes on the DVD.
This particular disk has episodes 5,6 and 7.

The episodes are in their original format and slightly grainy.

After viewing the DVD, I tracked down some information on the DVD release, and it seems that only the first 8 episodes were ever released on DVD.

The show was always a nice twist on the vampire genre, and still holds up a decade later.  But unless you are a collector I would by pass this. 

The Vampire Book -Review

This is the Third Edition of the very popular Encyclopedia of vampires by J. Gordon Melton PHD.   The original was published back in 1994, and the second edition in 1998-99.

The need for the update is obvious, as so much has taken place in the world of vampire fiction and fact in the last 13 years since the second edition.   With updates on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Twilight etc.  What this volume lacks however is the one thing that made the original book back in 1994 the cultclassic it's become; and that is the intense listings of vampire movies/books/plays/shows.   The original was a mega centerpiece for any vampire collector's library.   This one is nice, but it just doesn't have that extra bite.

I can only hope that the Doctor has up his sleeve a second round of his Videohound's Vampire Film Guide.   {which was printed in 1997 and a collector's item as is the original 1994 First edition of the encyclopedia}