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Showing posts with label vampire rising. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vampire rising. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

The Monitor: Alex Van Helsing Series Review; likes "quippy, Whedonesque dialogue"



David Bowles of the Texas newspaper The Monitor turns in a fantastic review of the first two Alex Van Helsing books. Here are some highlights, but check out the original at the Monitor site. I like his description of Voice of the Undead:


Book 2, Voice of the Undead, begins just a few weeks later. The action kicks in almost immediately: Alex is attacked by blood-sucking worms; his fight against them results in Glenarvon’s being partially destroyed by fire. The boys of the boarding school are temporarily relocated to LaLaurie, a nearby girls’ academy attended by Minhi, one of the members of Alex’s “Scooby gang.” Soon a new “big bad” arrives: Ultravox, a vampire who can control humans with his voice (and whose identity is just as clever as that of Icemaker). Setting the story at LaLaurie allows for some cool meta-jabs at the Twilight series (Ultravox employs written horror stories to infect girls’ minds with post-hypnotic suggestions and use them as weapons), but what makes Voice especially entertaining is the deeper exploration of the secondary characters; the quippy, Whedonesque dialogue; and the arrival of Alex’s parents.
Adolescent boys will particularly enjoy reading the action-packed, fast-moving books, but adult fans of the supernatural are encouraged to read them as well. This series is more respectful of lore, tradition and geekdom than most other YA vampire novels: horror fans and literature buffs alike will be rewarded by the references that Henderson includes.

Check out the rest!

Monday, January 3, 2011

Voice of the Undead Giveaway, and SciFiChick.com lists Vampire Rising in its Top 10 YA Fantasy Novels of 2010

This is nice-- run over and give TheSciFiChick.com some love because they just added Alex Van Helsing: Vampire Rising to their Top 10 YA Fantasy novels of 2010. What can I say except THANK YOU! It's kind of bizarre, really, because even though the whole point of the blog is to keep everyone up to date, I'm still constantly amazed that people are reading and caring.

Meanwhile, I have GIVEAWAY NEWS. I plan to give away an ARC (advanced reading copy) of Alex Van Helsing: Voice of the Undead  as soon as our Facebook page hits 500 Likes-- so if you haven't, go add yourself!

I haven't yet figured out how I'll give it away. Probably once we do hit 500, I'll post a call for responses, and draw from the responses. No other details yet because they have not come to me.