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Autumn Adventures

My retreat from the post-Amazon-apocalypse-GoodReads. My shelves and my reviews, I hope, will find a safe haven here.

 

I like to read epic fantasy (the bigger, thicker and longer, the better) and science fiction (perfer space operas).  I also enjoy the occasional biography or history non-fiction.

 

Out in the real world, I'm an IT professional in the Legal industry.  Tech doesn't scare me or phase me.

Currently reading

Hammered (Iron Druid Chronicles, #3)
Luke Daniels, Kevin Hearne
Progress: 94 %
Lifeblood - Werner A. Lind What a wonderful book to wrap up the Halloween season! Ana is a 17th century vampire from Transylvania, transplanted to eastern Iowa by the strangest and saddest of circumstances. She is hunted by a zealous priest who paralyzes her with his crucifix and drives a wooden stake through her heart. Fast forward 300+ years to an automobile accident involving an armored car that was transporting her remains to a museum exhibit. The accident dislodges the stake and Ana find herself restored to a fiery confusion, which she escapes in her bat form. Joshua is a volunteer firefighter in Merriweather, Iowa who finds Ana residing in an abandoned derelict farm house a mile or so outside town. He is concerned with her palid and thin appearance and offers her shelter at his home which he shares with his mother and sister. She declines his offer but does agree to do some sewing and mending for a small bit of income. Over the next week, Joshua and Ana grow closer. But strange events are occurring in the area and the media is overplaying the vampire element from the armored car accident (the exhibit was of Eastern European artifacts and remains of the supposed Undead). It doesn't help things that stray animals are being found dead, completely bloodless and sporting bite marks on their necks. Itchy is the local bad boy small-time drug dealer who runs afoul of Ana the night of her first forray into town. Since she got the better of him, he's bound and determined to do her in and everyone else in town who laughs at him or thinks him stupid. Itcy is dangerous and smarter than he lets on, although not by much. I really enjoyed this short novel. It was a quick read and I really connected with the two main characters - Ana and Joshua. For all the strange stories I could have read this Halloween season, this one warmed my heart and restored my faith in great story telling.