BOOK REVIEW--Play Dead by Kody Boye

PLAY DEAD is a awesome collection of creepy short stories that will definitely hold your interest! This was also a free book provided by the author a while back, but in my opinion, he should officially have his work published with a publishing house! I love this guy--he's so straightforward and blunt and to-the-point with everything, including his life---which makes him so REAL in a world full of cookie cutter jerkoffs.

Now onto his book.

Lamia was eerie. very eerie. A guy who lost his wife meets a 'monster' on the beach one night, the lamia, and this man comes close to losing his life if not for the ghost of his dead wife!

Rage felt like a losing-all-hope-for-humanity type of situation when animals become infected with a plague that causes them to go fucking bonkers. A man and his son and a woman try to flee for their lives, and you REALLY feel for these folks and what they go through to survive.

Pig was a story that seems like it could have been a spin-off of Rage, but as a more isolated situation. A huge-ass pig in the Florida Everglades gets a taste of human flesh and becomes a man-eater, literally. For the people of the area, it becomes a case of "kill this sucker or be killed" and the pig won't give up without a fight!

Lastly we have a story of the same books title, Play Dead. A group of kids have developed some sort of sick twisted game in which they have to go out in the middle of the woods, and perform certain little 'ritualistic' acts in order to keep up their reputation of being cool, in a way, and some of the characters in this story made me want to slap the crap out of them for their typical highschoolish b.s.-- but hey, they're teens, and most teens do the typical stupid stuff. But the game starts to go pretty wrong when a demonic creature of sorts get involved and people start to die for their foolish acts.

Boye can weave tales that will pull you in and writes characters that are very believable, characters you can feel sympathy for, while wanting to absolutely kill the bad guys in the stories. I'll be looking forward to checking out more of his work. Absolutely 5 stars!

Find him at http://kodyboye.com/ or http://kody-boye.livejournal.com/ . Actually, he's scattered all over the net, facebook, twitter, myspace and youtube, so go check him out asap!

SNEAK PEEK OF NEW NOVEL BY CINSEARAE S.

Okay, go and run over to Ms. Cinsearae's website here and grab a free sneak peek of her upcoming novel, Boleyn--Tudor Vampire. I read the first 2 chapters and I'm totally hooked and cant WAIT to get this book when it comes out. Seeing Anne Boleyn as a vampire, I'd love to know what she does to everyone who betrayed her. And I liked the trailer she made for it as well, it fits the mood of the story perfectly! *Grin* The sneak peek has been getting some cool comments, besides my own, lol, so go get it! :) I just hope King Henry gets what he deserves.

MOVIE REVIEW: ALICE IN WONDERLAND

Is it me, or does anyone else feel like Tim Burton was latched to Disney's ball-and-chain when he did this movie??!?! Ugh. I felt like I was trapped in a weird CGI world, unable to escape. Nothing's wrong with a little bit of eyecandy, but I felt this movie was overkill. I did like some of the characters though, like the TweedleDee and Dum, the Cheshire Cat, and the March Hare. Helena as the red queen and her big-ass head had me chuckling with her monotonous "Off with her head!" line, and Jonny Depp was just freaky as all hell. I did like his take on The Mad Hatter though, although I could hear little snips of "Willy Wonka" and "Jack Sparrow" in his voice sometimes, lol. I liked his makeup, too. But his eyes turning red whenever he got pissed? That was a bit freaky too, lol.

I SWEAR if Tim was given total creative freedom, he could have made this look was darker than it was, but I guess Disney was telling him to keep it kid-friendly. *Sigh*

Sayit with me guys...'Disney is evil'!!! lol! I'll give this a B- *grin*.

Whoo-boy.Bad, bad me....

Here I am, sitting on a small pile of reviews I've done, and haven't found the time to POST them. Hey--college kid here, so you'll have to forgive me. I DO have schoolwork. I'm really not the kind to be tethered down to 'blogging'. It's fun, and I love reading books and reviewing them---so maybe I just need to get some sort of schedule together as to when I can actually COME here and post stuff. I'll get it together guys, promise. Even if it's just once or twice a week, I'll do it.

New Year's Slack

Okay, I've been slacking. bad. The holidays aren't a help, and by the time everything had gone away for another 365 days, there were times when I just didn't feel like sitting in front of a PC. Bleah. It's not like I want to slip away into blog oblivion (I'm practically there as it is) but I just don't have that extra 'zip' in my life that makes me want to sit here and type every single day, lol.
On a plus, I have a lot of reviews to post up, so I'll be doing that shortly. A Happy New YEar? We'll see.

Holiday BLAHS!!!

Ugh, is it me, or have the holidays gotten tired and trite? With the economy and everything else seeming to be rolling downhill, it's no wonder people look more and more like emotionless zombies to me. It makes me wonder what the heck happened to the good 'ol US of A. No, we've seen the progress of how we came to be (or should that read 'digress'?) but one thing's for sure, the holidays have lost their true meaning over time, and mankind has killed it's spirit!

BOOK REVIEW: ABRAXAS:THE HAYWIRE HALLOWEEN

OH MY GOD....if you're a Halloween freak, you are in for an ABSOLUTE treat with this novella! Like I mentioned in the review of the chapter sneak peek, Abraxas: The Haywire Halloween has Abraxas vampire clan member Jonathan, wanting to go out for Halloween. On their travels, he finds a skeleton key pendant that helps him unknowingly unleash his secret wish for everyday to be Halloween. That's when all hell breaks loose! Whatever people are dressed up as, they become it, and heaven help you if you're wearing a rubber mask! Everything from paper bats to rubber mice come alive, and even...you guessed it...the dead. (Which has the same affect for folks dressed up like zombies too!) And I liked the 'nod' to Michael Jackson's "Thriller"---thanks to Kurt, who can't stand zombies whatsoever, lol. I LOVE this guy!!With Kiera's help, they soon discover a creepy little demon with goat's eyes named Ock who is the mischief maker, so the clansters set off to make things right, by getting rid of him for good.

Despite all of the chaos, all the characters bounce off each other so well, you feel like youre right there with them, witnessing the mayhem. The vivid descriptions of everything happening is just awesome, and the action is nonstop. Jonathan quickly learns to be careful of what he wants, because Ock looks for 'loopholes' in his wishes, making the wishes more wosre than what he wants--and Jonathan uses his last and final wish to end themadness, along with a banishing ritual that they all join in to get rid of him--which sounded really, really disgusting, lol.

Halloween lovers, this book is so kick ass, it's OFF my 5-star scale, lol. This is a crazy as hell horror-comedy romp you won't be disappointed with.