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Rod Kierkegaard Jr

Auteur van Moon Bayou

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Werken van Rod Kierkegaard Jr

Moon Bayou (2015) 43 exemplaren
The Department of Magic (2011) 33 exemplaren
The God Particle (2012) 26 exemplaren
Family Cursemas (2011) 25 exemplaren
The Witch and the Huntsman (2015) 13 exemplaren
The Dead Detective 11 exemplaren
Shooting Stars (1987) 7 exemplaren
The Flight to Mecha (2016) 5 exemplaren
The Vampire Circus 5 exemplaren
Ghosts of Christmas Present (2014) 4 exemplaren
Adultery: The Scarlet Alphabet (2014) 2 exemplaren
Obama Jones & The Logic Bomb (2011) 1 exemplaar
Mirrorland (2012) 1 exemplaar
Wet Dream (2012) 1 exemplaar

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The Flight to Mecha (The Millenniad #1) by Rod Kierkegaard Jr and Kris Carey is a book that Curiosity Quills was kind enough to let me read. It was a strange book that had it's good and not so good points. I didn't find the characters developed at all and no emotional connection to any of them. I would just as soon blasted the whole planet and said to hell with it. Or at least the humans. The word association from the old world to new world was clever but that was about it. The plot was so-so and seemed to drag on. I gave this a 2 1/2 stars but rounded up to 3. It looked like a cool cover and got good reviews so I was really hoping for a great book but it just didn't do it for me.… (meer)
 
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MontzaleeW | Feb 3, 2017 |
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Vampire novels usually are not really my cup of tea. Time travel, however, definitely is, so I decided to give this novel a try.

Moon Bayou follows mother-of-two, vampire private detective Samantha Moon as she takes on a missing person case that will take her to New Orleans, and accidently also to the 19th century.

I've read nothing of the original Vampire for Hire series that this new series is a spin off to, but I didn't feel like that mattered much since I didn't get the idea there were a lot of things I was missing because of it. The story really has two parts, none of which were fully closed at the end of this book. I suppose the larger of the two, the one involving time travel will be taken to the next novel in this series, as the ending truly had a cliffhanger.

The vampires were quite nice, especially in their bat-like forms. There were also some werewolves, because those seem obligatory these days. Overall, the writing was very fast and easy, making this a light read. I'd liked to see some more closure though, especially on the real 'case file'. I'll have to read the next book to find out what will happen to Samantha.

Moon Bayou is the first book in the Samantha Moon Case Files, which is a spin off series from the Vampire for Hire series.

Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for providing me with a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!
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Floratina | 1 andere bespreking | May 26, 2016 |
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Originally, this was going to be a November blog tour, but in the end I was just asked to review it somewhere at the end of the month. Which in the end is a good thing, because I hate to write negative reviews during a blog tour.

Focussing on many different arcs and characters, this apparently is the story of some Parisian vampires, and a man who holds a (reasonable) grudge against them. Unfortunately though, this isn't the story that is told in this book.

The blurb claims that this man goes on revenge, but after an entire book he hasn't even made it to Europe, let alone gotten (even a little bit of) his revenge. Instead there has been a lot of scenes I thought weren't that interesting. Besides what I suppose is to be the main arc, only that one of the vampire hunter was kind of interesting. I for some reason expected it to be a young adult novel, but it certainly isn't. Another thing that bothered me was the ending. Or the lack of an ending. I'm aware this is a serial novel, but this is also a collected work, and since this is called Book 1 of the Vampires of Paris I expect some kind, any kind really, of ending. I'm left after this book feeling as if it was stopped right at the middle and nothing has happened yet.

I don't think I will continue reading this series.

The Vampire Circus is the first book of The Vampires of Paris.

Thanks to the publisher for proving me with a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!
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Floratina | May 26, 2016 |
I’ve been reading the series back-to-back and am surprised that this third book wasn’t nearly as enjoyable as the first two. There is just too much missing. This is a highly emotional story for Allison and yet as a reader I felt none of it. So how am I to be on board with the seriousness of what she’s feeling? That end just fell flat.

Too much was left unexplained when it came to the reveal of what they were facing and what exactly happened. Very rushed, and it feels like a cop out for us to be missing out on their explanation to the police without any evidence, especially since one of the dead is an officer. That’s huge!

Allison picks up a human as a familiar when the guy begs her to take him on. It doesn’t make sense that a response of “OK” would be enough to create the relationship.

The situations are definitely interesting but there is just too much lacking—more than I mentioned here—for even fiction to be believable.
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dearheart | Sep 12, 2015 |

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