Vampire Vocab


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Vampire Vocab # 8

Today’s word is… Adamantly! The definition is: Ad-a mant  Adjective Unyielding in attitude or opinion despite all urgings. Today’s excerpt is from Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead, in a conversation between Rose and Lissa on page 187, “They Know.” “Know what?’ “About us. About how you…youknow, how I fed you when we were gone.” She [...]

June 30th, 2009
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The Tree Shepherd’s Daughter

Hmmm…perhaps this is an indication that the direction of my blog is starting to lean towards faeries and elves more than vampires. Well, anyway, the Tree Shepherds Daughter by Gillian Summers is really a teen reading book. It’s nowhere near as intense as Tithe. If you have a teenager in your house, or even someone [...]

June 19th, 2009
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Tithe: a book review that doesn’t even begin to do it justice

Tithe by Holly Black. How to explain it in terms that will somehow show just what an awesome book it is? I could write a love song; no, I can’t rhyme. Perhaps a poem then, after I’ve explained the basic elements. The protagonist is a teenage girl named Kaye who lives with her mother and [...]

June 18th, 2009
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Ahoy, Vampire romance on the horizon!

All right! As promised, here’s a book review, but all ye who read here, be thou warned: it’s sooo vamp romance. Bit the Jackpot by Erin McCarthy is my first book review, because I like that she doesn’t assume that vampires always live in cold, remote areas, and that all they want is blood, blood, [...]

June 16th, 2009
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