Stephenie Meyer - Author of Twilight Series

Because Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series is still all the vampire rage these days and many book reviews have already been written in this regard ... I merely provide my very quick opinion on all four books, below.

 (five out of five stars

BOOK 1: Twilight: Loved it. Could NOT put it down. The only part of this book that disagreed with me is the excepts that made Edward look like a crazed stalker (i.e., sneaking into Bella's room, uninvited, before she even admitted she liked him, and him staring at her while she slept. He also shows ups more than an hour away from their home to "rescue" her, later. If he's not stalking her, then ... ?) I still loved the way this book flowed and promote it as a very worthwhile read.

(five out of five stars)
BOOK 2: New Moon: Loved it. Could NOT put it down. At this point in the Twilight series I became a Jacob fan. I love the werewolves, all their sharing with tribal experiences, and I especially appreciated watching Jacob Black become comfortable as a grown man.

(five out of five stars)
BOOK 3: Eclipse: Loved the part about vampires who cannot control their lust for human blood. Great read. Wonderful action and adventure.

(one out of five stars)
BOOK 4: Breaking Dawn: Felt terribly offended by this book. I drew the comic, below, as a result. (Romantic infatuation with an infant is pedophilia - I don't care if Stephenie Meyer wants to label it werewolf "imprinting," it's still perversion of the worst kind when Jacob is constantly volunteering to babysit and changes his love-interest's diapers .) [click image to enlarge it]

I also felt horrified by the way Bella's pregnancy was explained, in book 4, as though mating with a vampire could turn a human into something like a chicken and Bella carries an egg with a titanium hard shell in her uterus - so as the baby grows she's ripped apart from the inside-out. What the heck? 

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Vampire Nights And Other Stories by J. R. Rain

(ten out of five stars)
Review Of "Vampire Nights and Other Stories" (VNOS) by J. R. Rain, which is available on Smashwords.

When it comes to writers, J.R. Rain is the crème de la crème and VNOS is the book that proves it. The very first short story inside this novella offers a perfectly written and enrapturing twist to a troubled vampire's tale. Yet each subsequent story, with a completely new elocutionist and brand new setting, proves just as bewitching. That's even when the speaker might have changed gender (to the reader's surprise).

The result is a book that flows like fragrant and fresh individual breezes, animating the trees, and changing in intensity with the subsequent seasons. Just as no summertime lasts forever, so this novella comes to an end after 60 pages of delicious bliss, which is when the premium swirled ice-cream falls from the proverbial sugar cone.

As a vampire and horror fan, I was amazed by the experience each new story presented. While I drank in all of this novella, I still feel thirsty for more! (My plight now is to go back in time, to revisit the work, or hope for another warm day when I may read more of J.R. Rain's books.) This is definitely perfectly polished and entirely worth the time to read.

~ Tami Jackson
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Vampires: The Occult Truth, by Konstantinos (publisher: Llewellyn)

(five out of five stars)

Vampires: The Occult Truth ~ 11.95


Konstantinos’ book drips with mystery and that’s only the beginning of what makes Vampires The Occult Truth a definitely spooky but worthwhile read. With so many different types of vampires to write about (human bloodsuckers, undead stalkers of the night, sexual vampires and those who work like parasites against the unsuspecting psyche) Konstantinos engorges the reader.


If there is to be a downside to the book it’s only because the author has a frustrating habit of teasing like a news anchor about fearsome information to come. The reader’s delay of pleasure is most evident in the first chapter where the author serves only a morsel of bloody meat while the bulk of those pages foretell what the reader will be able to discover when he or she sinks one’s teeth much deeper into the book, in subsequent chapters.


The more immersed one gets into reading, however, the more one’s heart begins to race as the horror of ancient vampire tales come alive through the pages. Just as one begins to believe that a certain fable could possibly be true, the author explains why commonsense and scientific logic would most likely disprove the aged lore of such vampirism and butchery. Depending on your vampire orientation – whether you believe in them or not – Konstantinos' use of commonsense and devotion to fact finding could prove to be disappointing (or not, depending on your point of view).


Beginning with third-person accounts of various kinds of vampires, the pages grow to be more and more intimately told and are presented in welcoming detail. At one point, letters from modern day vampires spill onto the pages. (Konstantinos held out the promise of using pseudonyms instead of legal names for human vampires so they could continue to lurk from the shadows anonymously.)


With the diligence of a headless horseman searching for his lost skull, Konstantinos discussed so many vampire variations -- the author even described Renfield’s Syndrome, a blood-sucking condition that becomes evident during childhood. It’s a disorder you’ll never read about on the web site for the Centers for Disease Control but it also conjures up a mental picture you’ll not soon forget – that of small children happily lapping blood from either their friend’s or their own natural wounds.


If you are interested in learning the truth about vampires . . . this is the book for you. If you are eager to feel frightened, you could choose to read Vampires The Occult Truth while in a graveyard, at night, with only a flashlight for company. Either that, or you could forgo the cold damp ground and experience all of those goose bumps just by reading the book (in the comfort of your home)! In the final chapters, the author gives credible evidence to prove that psychic vampires do exist to drain energy from the most unsuspecting human victims. Fortunately, Konstantinos does not leave you feeling so vulnerable. The author also provides helpful hints for shielding oneself -- with explicit directions for guarding oneself against such evil doers.http://www.llewellyn.com/product.php?ean=9781567183801

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