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Lädt ... Dead on My Feetvon Wm. Mark Simmons
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. I love this series entirely too much, as much for the horrible aspersions upon the language as for any other reason. ( ) The second book in the Halflife Chronicles series, an urban fantasy featuring the partially vampire hero/antihero Chris Csejthe, is a fastpaced read, but not as good as the first book -One Foot in the Grave. Too much background info is dropped on the reader without being properly integrated in the story, thereby stalling the action and disrupting the flow of the narrative. The self-ironic attitude of Chris makes him seem more of an antihero than a hero, but he unfallingly comes to the rescue of every damsel in distres, while making humorous remarks. His newly acquired expertise in everything religious and undead related is a bit over the top, but required to provide the reader with the necessary background to follow the story. The weakest part of the book, compared with the last one, is the ampunt of philosophical discourse Chris engages in, often in the most ridiculous situations as if having heavy dialogue while being pursued and shot at somehow makes it more palatable and in line with the lighter tone of the rest of the book. The amount of coincidences that carry the story forward makes the story less credible. Chris is living in a small town in Louisiana under an assumed name, playing at being a PI. A visit to a local voudon psychic on behalf of a client leads him on a quest to stop the end of the world being caused by a biblical demon masquarading as a vampire and a far foremother of Chris. A number of dead people decides that Chris is Baron Samedi and seeks him out to get avenged and released. This leads him to a local biomedical facility where unsavoury experiments to decimate the human race are conducted, backed by shadowy governmental employees and the leader of the New York Vampire domain. Sample Chapters: http://webscriptions.net/chapters/0743436105/0743436105.htm Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Gehört zur ReiheHalflife Chronicles (book 2)
The living dead were making his life a living hell . . . A year ago, Chris Csejthe (pronounced "Chay-tay") was completely human-then a blood transfusion from the Lord of the Undead changed everything. Now he is a hunted man, sought by human and vampire alike for the secrets he knows and the powers that his mutated blood may bestow. So far he's dodged undead assassins, werewolves, a 6,000-year-old Egyptian necromancer, and Vlad Dracula himself. But now he's really got problems. The dead are turning up on his doorstep after dark to ask for justice and the police want to know where all those corpses are coming from. Undead terrorists are testing a doomsday virus on his new hometown and he's caught in the crossfire between a white supremacist militia and the resurrected Civil War dead. His werewolf lover, jealous of his dead wife's ghost, has left him. And the centuries-old and still very beautiful (and very deadly) Countess Bathory is determined to have his uniquely transformed blood for her own dark purposes. Now, more than ever, life sucks! Contains mature themes. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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