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i can't find blood bound in iBooks.
Here you go! Hope that helps.
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Love the Vampire Hunter D hat on the cover. Might just give this one a whirl on my next flight.Kane, D, Alucard. Everyone knows a hat is a vampire hunter's most important equipment!
Of course. Its impossible for people to know how cool, evil, or important you are unless you have a hat that conveys it for you.
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Of course. Its impossible for people to know how cool, evil, or important you are unless you have a hat that conveys it for you.Love the Vampire Hunter D hat on the cover. Might just give this one a whirl on my next flight.Kane, D, Alucard. Everyone knows a hat is a vampire hunter's most important equipment!
#truth.
Just finished this. Awesome book, Wes. I really liked:
The rest was great too. You managed to make me like both the main characters, whilst also finding them both annoying at times. They really seemed like real people.
I concur with Steve Geddess! Wes did a wonderful job on this.I very much enjoyed the characters and their situations, and I do hope we get to read more of their continuing adventures.
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Just finished this. Awesome book, Wes. I really liked:
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The rest was great too. You managed to make me like both the main characters, whilst also finding them both annoying at times. They really seemed like real people.
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I'll get out the ol' bullwhip and see what I can do.
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I'm into the third chapter and this has some horribly tortured prose.
It is too vernacular and inelegant to be considered gothic. I like gothic.
Instead it is simply confused. Characterisation is inconsistent, descriptions contradictory...
The description of Havenguard as batlike (massive, hundreds of eyes, veined tongue, you know, like a bat) as 'palace-like'. 'Imposition' used to clumsily transfer 'imposing'. A building which thrums with hundreds of breaths (just not how breathing carries).
At the top of the same page a faint haze of moonlight somehow illuminates acres...
And then a coach designed to carry mourners in stately passage, in no way described as speeding 'ground to a halt'.
Very poor.
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Very poor.
Wait till they get to the end when they fight the tarrasque! They totally kill it with a magic missile.
That's some buuuuuullcrap.
This guy does NOT know what's up. :P
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Oooh! Though, on a serious note about the "batlike" description, that's deliberately chosen as Havenguard Asylum is a small Kirkbride Institution. Maps of Caliphas show the asylum's architectural similarity to famous institutions like Danvers, Weston State, Buffalo State, and, my personal favorite (and childhood backyard) Spring Grove. So that's where that came from!
Thanks for the chance to point it out and for reading! :D
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Oooh! Though, on a serious note about the "batlike" description, that's deliberately chosen as Havenguard Asylum is a small Kirkbride Institution. Maps of Caliphas show the asylum's architectural similarity to famous institutions like Danvers, Weston State, Buffalo State, and, my personal favorite (and childhood backyard) Spring Grove. So that's where that came from!
Thanks for the chance to point it out and for reading! :D
Now that is cooler.
Can you re-print with footnotes?
Also, taking criticism with such good grace shows way more character than I'd probably manage.
I've tried again and I think a simpler conclusion is that your style is not my style. And that's fine.
So, I think I was being a picky-picky moaner because I wanted this to be like the classic gothic stuff I like, but set in Ustalav. And that's unfair, to complain that I book wasn't what I had demanded. Damnit, did nobody get my psychic commands?! Again!
Although, now I want the 'What happens to Ustalavian politics when the tarrasque turns up' novel, or maybe AP. Maybe my psychic commands will work this time. Psychic Command!
May Pharasma and Iomedae forgive this humble soul for committing an act of necromancy. I just got this book and so far it is fantastic, but I have to ask, does anyone else think that a young Ailson Kindler looks just like Larsa and vis versa? If this has any actual meaning to it and is not an unorthodox coincidence, just reply "Spoiler", please and thank you.
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May Pharasma and Iomedae forgive this humble soul for committing an act of necromancy. I just got this book and so far it is fantastic, but I have to ask, does anyone else think that a young Ailson Kindler looks just like Larsa and vis versa? If this has any actual meaning to it and is not an unorthodox coincidence, just reply "Spoiler", please and thank you.
Just keep reading.