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| Moonlight, Wine & Stakes | 
 enlarge | Author: Lynn Warren
Publisher: Triskelion Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $10.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 857109
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 312
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4 x 0.7
ISBN: 1933471654
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9781933471655
ASIN: 1933471654
Publication Date: September 8, 2006
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 Eden the Vampire Slayer February 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This story is about a Slayer and her Watcher Guardian (think Watcher). They are connected together through a prophecy and also have to deal with a Master Vampire who is attempting to bind Eden the Slayer to him. The book is reminiscent of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eden was orphaned by a vampire in an attempt to get her out of the way and her guardian Elliot reads like a poorly written Giles (right down to being a `Stuffy Brit'). Eden does not have a spidey sense but she does have the ability to smell evil which had a couple of amusing scenes when she came across some good vampires. Some of the descriptions of the sexual encounters were similar to LK Hamilton's in the fact that they were ludicrous ie `it raged through her like a lioness during a hunt.' I kind of found the fact that vampire blood + Absinthe = zombie like slave (aka a Reinfield) amusing.
 HORRID & BADLY WRITTEN TRITE January 22, 2008
I bought this book after reading the first 2-3 pages and thought it would be pretty good romance. I was incredibly wrong. I finished the book out of pure perversity but I couldn't enjoy it. It was a basic rip-off of the Buffy universe -- only a pathetic attempt at creating such an interesting world. There was little tension: romantic or other wise. The characters were basically flat. AND there were so many misspelled words and poorly written sentences that I found myself re-reading passages slowly to be sure I knew who was speaking and what was going on. I hate writing bad reviews, but this one merited it. Save your money for a good urban fantasy.
Skip it!! October 31, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
All I can say about this book is mix Buffy with Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake series (or at least the first six books before those turned to porn as well!!) and you've got this. Is the author even trying???
Not bad, but.. September 12, 2006
...it could be a lot better. The characters are of some interest, but the premise and plot are highly derivative.
Reading the book was made fairly unpleasant for me by the incredibly bad proofreading, which I suspect was done with a spellchecker. If an actual human being did the proofreading, he or she does not have English as a first language.
While I did not count the actual number of proofreading errors, it exceeded one per page. In a 306 page book, that's a hell of a lot of errors. Another annoying aspect of reading the book was the amateurish use of the justification option in what looks like an MS Word document. It results in very uneven letter spacing and in the completely unsatisfactory result of several chapters which end with only one or two words on a page.
I would be embarassed to be associated with the production of this book.
Leaves a Lot to Be Desired August 21, 2006
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is one of the most poorly edited books I have come across in a long time. While I understand that it's almost impossible to eliminate every single typo, the myriad of spelling, punctuation and grammatical errors on virtually every page distracts from what may be an otherwise entertaining, if rather predictable, story.
The sex scenes are extremely disappointing, relying on foul language and little else to set the mood. While I am not a big advocate of using phrases like "his throbbing manhood", and agree that a few well-placed naughty words here and there can titillate the reader, the author goes way too far and just leaves you feeling crass.
Overall, I was extremely disappointed in the book. It seemed like a very rough first draft of what could have been a decent novel.
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