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Book Review: The Horns of Elfland edited by Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman

8 June 2010, 8:00 am. 1 Comment. Filed under Reading.

The Horns of Elfland The Horns of Elfland by Ellen Kush­ner

My rat­ing: 3 of 5 stars
It took a while to track down this vol­ume, as it has long been out of print. Inter­li­brary loan was, once again, my friend. But how odd to read an actual phys­i­cal book again, when I’ve been read­ing ebooks almost exclu­sively lately! Read on…

Review: Blood Oath by Christopher Farnsworth

7 June 2010, 5:32 pm. 1 Comment. Filed under Reading.

Blood Oath Blood Oath by Christo­pher Farnsworth

My rat­ing: 4 of 5 stars
Blood Oath is an inter­est­ing and fairly refresh­ing vari­a­tion on the vam­pire riff. Most of the cur­rent tales give us a suave, sexy preda­tor who mes­mer­izes his or her prey, leav­ing humans pin­ing for their pres­ence. They might even fall in love with a human. Nathaniel Cade, how­ever, refers to humans as food, say­ing, “Would you have sex with a cow?” That makes much more sense to me. It’s a good thing he isn’t inter­ested, either, as the typ­i­cal reac­tion peo­ple have to encoun­ter­ing him is utter panic, often involv­ing the loss of blad­der con­trol. Read on…

 

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