Monday 31 October 2011

Let's talk Anita Blake


And the web site dedicated to Laurell K Hamilton's series.

I'd love to laugh, but hey I'm looking at it all, seeing what they see, and all that—so far only Edward has got a pic of a real person I would say fits his character, but then, out of all the people in her books, he was the least described and so plainly a person that could be real (if you don't understand I get it, I'm not the easiest for that shit, but Laurell loves to describe her characters, over and over, to a point that if you have obsessively read all her books you would be able to sketch the characters yourself, and even more, everyone would most likely get the same pic, it's what she does, except with Edward, he's as mysterious in her description—which  out of them all is about as described as other authors do their main characters, but in her sense it's so little, and yet it's a pic)

Any way this web site: the tab reads; Welcome to the Anitaverse, it's actually done nicely, sorta (or maybe I have just been on a few too many sleazy web sites lately) 


So we go onto it, and there's a lot of shit about the books, about her (her being Anita) but it’s the characters that I'm interested in. [and more so the fact that I'm going to show you a few of the graphic novel pic, so that's why I wanted to plug the site a little]

book review (generation dead trilogy)

Happy Halloween everyone out there! and here’s the only things I could share
Generation Dead,
                      the Trilogy

Love knows no boundaries... even death
                    Generation Dead 
  Prod dets
trilogy, book one
Pub: 2008, by Hyperion Books for children.
Author: Daniel Waters
Cat: Multiculturalism, zombies, fiction. 
Format: paperback; 392 pp w/ 31 chapters.
Age range: Young adults
    Summary
The dead boy reached for her,  
his pale eyes glowing in the darkness.
All over the country, teenagers who die aren’t staying dead.
Against her better judgement, Phoebe finds herself drawn to Tommy Williams. He’s gorgeous, funny, on the football team. And dead.
  But not everybody is as accepting as Phoebe. There are those who would like to rid the community of this sinister phenomenon, and they’ll stop at nothing to achieve it...
A deeply compelling, sparkling original story about discrimination, prejudice, 
and the power of love

                Kiss of Life
Welcome back, Newlydeads!

Dets
trilogy, book two
Pub: 2009, by Hyperion Books for children
Cat: crime & Mystery
Format: paperback; has 410 pages with 49 chapters.

Summary
When Phoebe’s best friend Adam takes a bullet for her, it proves everyone right – Adam is in love with her. And now that he’s come back to life, Phoebe’s more important than ever. A zombie can come back from death if they’re loved – and kissed... which means
Phoebe has to say goodbye to Tommy Williams, the other zombie in her life.

  While coaxing Adam back to reality and fending off Tommy’s advances, Phoebe tries to carry on as normal. But what’s normal when teenagers are rising from the dead and scores of others want nothing more than to send them back to their graves? And does having a zombie boyfriend make Phoebe a target too?

               Passing Strange

Dets
trilogy, book three, final
Pub: 2010, by Hyperion Books for children.
Format: paperback; has 386 pages with 40 chapters

Summary
Karen DeSonne always passed as a normal teenager – and now that she’s dead, she’s still passing – this time, as alive.
But when her dead friends are accused of high profiled murder and forced into hiding, it’s up to Karen to prove their innocence. Which means doing the unthinkable and becoming the girlfriend of bionist zealot Peter Martinsburg, who she suspects of framing them. But if Peter finds out who Karen really is, the consequences for her will be worse than death...



            my thoughts (review)