Monday 20 October 2014

Kristal Reviews 6th Book of The Vampire Diaries

Hello Readers,

Here was my review on the 6th book of Vampire Diaries. Enjoy....

From the beginning I felt a strange awkwardness between Damen, Elena and Matt's characters. I often found myself hoping that the author wanted me (the reader) to feel this emotion. Sometimes the scenes dragged on and I wished for them to answer questions and to end. Not having Bonnie and Meredith as involved with interactions with Elena was also very off putting.

After experiencing the divide between Bonnie, Meredith and Elena's chapters really felt me feeling strange. The book I knew was meant to be running in synic with the other storyline she was developing sometimes felt strange, however I often found the scene jumps to be disjointed. From my experiences that's not a writing trick that is easily pulled off I do take my hat off for L. J Smith for trying.

The disappearance of Matt left me feeling awkwardly aware of his departure from the group for a long time. I wondered if she forgot about Matt for sometime. I even hoped he'd not been killed off or worse.. Yet he was to share half the story with Elena and her troop after the halfway point in the book.

Elena heads up her mission to free the love of her life Stefan while Matt wages war on the aftermath of the Kitsume in their home town. Cleaning up the messes left by the girls. Despite the half chapters, longer length of chapters and slight disjointedness I often found the sixth book in the Vampire Diaries an enjoyable read even the ending was a little fragile.

I love how the author liked in Japanese myths to the story as it makes for a nice change for me. I like how the shapeshifters were foxes also very refreshing.

Its straight easy 4 out of 5 for the disjointedness and divided chapters. Maybe something for the author to practice or avoid in the future.

Come back later for more reviews by me. 

Thursday 16 October 2014

Dan O Brien Back With Mobsters, Monsters and other things....

Dear Readers, 

Please welcome Dan who is here to tell us about his new comic book Mobsters, Monster and Nazis. He's a great writer and has a love for the independent readers like you and me. So please enjoy what he has to say below. 


Well, the time has come to announce Dan O’Brien’s latest project: Mobsters, Monsters & Nazis: a collaboration between Dan O’Brien and Steve Ferchaud, who illustrated Conspirators of the Lost Sock Army and the Loose Change Collection Agency

What I am revealing today is the sketches for some of the interior illustrations (which will be black and white) of the first issue. 

It will be released as six issues (eBooks) starting on Halloween. It is influenced by film noir, pulp comics, and an abiding love of Lovecraft. It is now available for pre-order and Dan will be promoting it heavily starting in the month of October. 

He would love to hear what you think of it so far! Visit him at: http://thedanobrienproject.blogspot.com/ or on Twitter, @AuthorDanOBrien




Thank you Dan for coming along and I'm sure my readers will check it out.

I hope you all enjoyed Dan's blog and I look forward to talking to you all again soon,

Kristal