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Librarian, book lover, avid reader

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Roman Blood
Steven Saylor
Progress: 171/401 pages
Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child
Bob Spitz
Progress: 208/557 pages
Avant-gardes du XXe siècle: arts & littérature, 1905-1930
Serge Fauchereau
Caesar's Commentaries: On the Gallic War and On the Civil War
Julius Caesar
Les bûchers de Bocanegra
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
The Songs of the Kings
Barry Unsworth
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories: Volumes I and II
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien, Alan Lee

If Angels Burn: A Novel of the Darkyn

If Angels Burn - Lynn Viehl This took quite a bit of time for me to read. I did like the vampire "Darkyn" lore Viehl is setting up. I will read the next books because I have them in my library. I'm curious to see if Viehl improves writing wise. Because my major problem with this book is the writing. Cold, dry, aseptic. I did not care for any of the lead characters. Not Alex despite the fact that she is a strong, capable woman, definitely not Micheal whom I find is a pale carbon copy of some other writer French stereotype vampire. I did like Philippe and Thierry's family (he's the focus of book 2). Viehl did manage to surprise me at the end with two plot twists. One I should have seen coming and another that was a pretty good surprise.