By Carla Lee
I am tired of this rollercoaster ride of appreciation and exasperation toward The Vampire Diaries. It seems like every few episodes, just as I start to love the show, it kills off another supernatural powerful sexual woman and I am back to strongly disliking it, and then the process begins all over again, as it starts doing things which are slightly ridiculous but still pretty wonderful and my love begins to grow again. This episode, after one which infuriated me and one which…
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By Paula R. Stiles
Banks,
L.A. The Thirteenth. New York: St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 2010 (originally published in 2009). 309pp. $7.99 USD, $9.99 CDN. ISBN: 978-0-312-94916.
The Thirteenth is apocalyptic dark fantasy set in the End Times. The African-American and Hispanic heroes are the Neteru Guardian team, a strike force that works directly for Heaven. In this book, they’re on the run after their enemies in Hell successfully put the blame for a battle with demons in the previous book on their heads. The entire world is at stake when Lucifer…
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Glass, Seressia. Shadow Blade. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010. $7.99 USD, $9.99 CDN. ISBN: 978-1-4391-5679-7.
February is Black History Month and we’re also celebrating Valentine’s Day all week, starting today. So, we’re going to kick off with some African-American paranormal romance. Today, tomorrow and Tuesday, I’ll be reviewing two novels and a short story by three different authors, including some links to other authors. There isn’t a whole lot of African-American paranormal romance out there, but the subgenre is growing and it’s even being…
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by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Hunger is a bizarre anthology series which bears no resemblance to the cult vampire movie with the same title. It’s just a shameless attempt at profiting from association by name.
The series is not very good, but featured some great talent and several nifty ideas. For example, it was hosted by Terence Stamp and later, David Bowie. Isn’t that enough to pique your interest? It broadcasted adaptations of top-notch stories (Robert Aickman’s “The Swords” or Brian Lumley’s “Necros”), had a bizarre, interesting premise and…
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By Paula R. Stiles
Tagline: Anna goes back in time to kill Sam before his birth.
Recap: We start off with a recap taken exclusively from “Heaven and Hell” and “In the Beginning”. 
Dean is having a dream. It involves strippers dressed as a demon and an angel to the tune of Warrant’s “Cherry Pie”. Hehehe. Anna appears in the middle of it (fully-dressed, no more sex scenes between those two). Dean is embarrassed (no surprise). Anna tells him that she just broke out of heavenly prison: “all the…
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By Paula R. Stiles
Recap: Zoe’s dirty laundry comes out in the wake of the Maglev Bombing. Her avatar is imprisoned and subjected to tests. Her 
mother, Amanda, finds out some ugly truths about her daughter’s life and how much she didn’t know about it. Her father, Daniel, freezes out his erstwhile ally in grief, Joseph Adams, who is having a mental meltdown (but that’s okay, as gay Uncle Sam the Enforcer is there to help out young William). And her friend, Lacy, is groomed by…
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