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Ramses the Great (or Ramses the Damned) is discovered in The Valley of the Kings. He has risen from the his immortal sleep to fall in love with Julie. But when people start turning up dead Ramses raises the seductive Cleopatra from her grave. Um... Ok. So I read this in October as a good monster read. Unfortunately I didn't really get that. I have a few problems with this book. First off (and foremost I think) this is not a horror book by any means. I hate to compare this book to her others but unfortunately here I must do so. This is more of a paranormal romance which I was not expecting at all. Although I did like the romance between Ramses and Julie, I have to say the sex scenes were completely rushed and having a very wham bam thank you ma'am sort of feel to them. Which is not usual for Anne Rice who definitely knows how to write a good sex scene. The characters don't seem to be fleshed out enough. They just seemed very one-dimensional to me with not a lot of background to them at all. It also made it very difficult for me to connect with the characters or two relate to the main character Julie at all. The main storylines were okay but there are so many little story lines and subplots that are going on that really have no sway on the main storylines and it seems they are almost there just to confuse you, of which they do a very good job in that respect. Everything considered, not her best work at all. Sadness. I am hoping that her wolf series will be better. Can't say I'd really recommend this one.
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I read this book twice in one sitting and by the time I was done tears were streaming down my face!
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is one of the strongest women I have ever read about. And through it all she is still remembered and will be forever immortalized through her masterpiece. For all the hurt that she felt, for everything she had lost, for all the pain she had to endure... her work, her Adonis, her magnum opus is still being rewritten, televised, immortalized on the silver screen, and celebrated over 200 years later. Her story is not only a cautionary tale for society but is also debated in classrooms and even science labs to this very day. While this book doesn't go truly into depth of her life, it paints such a clear picture of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley that by the end of the book your heart seems to be bleeding for the character that you have just read about and for the monster that she had created which was, indeed, herself incarnate. The illustrations give you a clear and precise picture of both Mary and her monster as well as the world that Mary struggles to live in. The artwork is beautiful and the fact that it is black and white yet looks like watercolor paintings give the book a Gothic yet classic feel. They complement the book in such a way that I don't think any other artwork or photographs could possibly have done. This book made me feel things that I haven't felt in over a decade. This book made me feel alive as if I were a young aspiring writer again. Back when I believed that love was the only thing worth living for and that poetry could change the world. And here I see that Mary made that all true. Lita Judge's writing of Mary paints such a true and deep portrait of her that I connected to Mary in a way that is unprecedented. I felt it so deep in my soul that I feel that I need to pick up a pen and start writing again and that more needs to come out or else I will simply burst. I feel as if I want to use this book as a teddy bear to hug at night when I go to sleep I love it so much. To put it bluntly, this book has inspired me! I would go on but I think I've said enough. This book is more than worth a read. I highly recommend this book. |
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