Angela Spencer

Rise Reviews goes live!

Bart Leib emailed today to announce the launch of his new site, Rise Reviews, for which I am a contributor. He has a blog post linking to all 13 reviews that have gone live today. Or you can click straight through to my review of Rigor Amortis.

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Review of Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris

(Originally published at Associated Content. You can read it here or there.)

After loving the first Sookie Stackhouse novel, I had to delve deeper into Charlaine Harris’s marvelous vampire novels. The second installment in the series, Living Dead in Dallas, explores the secret world of the supernatural in greater detail. But while the writing is still engaging and the new revelations are compelling, the plot itself is not as tightly woven as the Dead Until Dark.

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Steampunk and Vampires and Werewolves, Oh My!

(Originally published at Associated Content. You can read it here or there.)

With steampunk and vampires at the forefront of hip, I imagine it was only a matter of time before I read a novel featuring both. Gail Carriger’s Soulless is the first book in her Parasol Protectorate series, which details an alternate Victorian world where the supernatural has been known to exist for several centuries and many historical events, particularly Henry VIII’s split from the Catholic Church, are now based around this knowledge (and acceptance) of vampires and werewolves in their midst.
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Sookie Stackhouse Takes on the Vampire World in This Wonderful Alternative to Leading Vampire Novels

(Originally published at Associated Content. You can read it here or there.)

Whether you are looking for a new fix after running out of Twilight books or want to read the inspiration for HBO’s True Blood series, you will find something worth enjoying in Charlaine Harris’s Dead Until Dark, the first of the Sookie Stackhouse series of novels.
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