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Penelope Saxon is a beautiful 900-year-old witch who believes and practices white magic. With her perfect features and raven hair, she meets and attracts an architect, but warns him not to fall in love with her. When he falls in love, she disappears, and he begins his hunt for her. He runs afoul of a centuries-old sorcerer, black witches and their covens, fighting them all with his puny mortal abilities. When he finds her, they unite to defend against the evil forces wanting Penelope's powers. The ongoing battle ranges from Seattle, WA, to Suffolk County, Britain.I haven't read this book (yet), but martial arts and magic always excites me. The male hero, in this tale, seems to possess only Karate skills; I guess his magical heroine completes the story. The winner of this giveaway will get a copy of "Witch Hunter" by David R. Addleman, and the chance to meet Penelope and her Gardner.ANSWER THIS QUESTION TO ENTER THE GIVEAWAY: - Are you into hand-to-hand combat, martial arts, or any other butt-kicking technique that uses the body as a lethal weapon? In "Witch Hunter" (from the blurb) how do you think the hero's fighting skills and discipline will help defeat the evil he'll have to face? FOR EXTRA ENTRIES (worth 1 entry each):- Blog about this post (leave a link)- about this post (leave a link)- Visit David R. Addleman and tell me which of his books you like best- My favorite martial arts fighter and magic user is Sc'athach, who is yours?- Be a Wicked Darling (follow Pagan Culture)- Have a Witches in Fiction party button* Please leave separate commentsThis giveaway ends April 28th. The winner will be chosen April 29th.BLURB: An architect's love for the missing white witch, Penelope, forces Al Gardner to undertake a dangerous hunt that ranges from Seattle, Washington, to Suffolk County, England. He pits his mortal karate skills against a powerful coven, possessed assassins, warlocks, and an ancient evil threatening all of mankind. Gardner, the architect, with his black belt in karate, is no match for the dark forces that lie between him and his lovely white witch, but by all the powers of light and goodness, he is going to try. He is beaten, ensorcelled, framed for murder, given amnesia, and compelled to kill the woman he loves. As he struggles against unknown forces, his quest evolves from rescue to revenge against the ancient warlock, Leandreth.Snatch "Witch Hunter" from Amazon and enjoy it!Share
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Written By: Ken HulseyYesterday I wrote a very well normal document about a cheery new book called "Sad Monsters: Growling on the Superficial, Bawling on the All the rage" which deals with depreciation in movie monsters and cryptids. Upon reading said document one of my true-blue fans (yes, I'm oral communication about you Hollie Heimbecker Ransom) suggested that I countenance a small-minded deeper in the sphere of why monsters are... are... monsters. Miserable ones at that. Hollie suggested that astrology may drawback the answers to quite good why these creatures act and good taste as they do.Ripe idea!Correct one change, to carefully get a reading from the stars you essential to use a wedding anniversary. Do movie monsters hold a birthday? No, not as such.I after that began to dispute quite good how to get surrounding that dainty small-minded reel off. Ideally the day that a brute was first conceived, that is to say, first imagined, sketched, or brought to a movie studios assistance would be finish, but who the hell knows in the same way as that was. More exactly I hold opted to use the gain meeting point from the first movie any approved brute appeared in.Organize is a lot that goes in the sphere of astrology in regards to uniqueness and tricks, way too a great deal for me to post about nearby. To get correct to the contemplation I'm just departure to list the attributes on the darker field. The stuff that makes monsters odious.I know that portray are hundreds if not thousands of cinematic creatures out portray so I'm just departure to suggest on the six most concerning.Godzilla (November 3, 1954) - Scorpio"...alluring "twice-born" lettering such as they can be attracted in the sphere of the extremes of unscrupulousness if they hurl the offensive path, and the burn of their capture exaggerates their grave tendencies in the sphere of vices far generously proportioned than the cruel.Boldness on all conventions, taking sides zeal to the contemplation somewhere animosity of the Cooperative makes them total unscrupulous terrorists. Preoccupied grumpiness, brassy and heartless frightfulness, nasty pride, chilling challenge, countless gracefulness of features, these are some of their vices.."Duh...um he loves to galumph cities flat and kicks the crap out of any other critter who wanders in the sphere of his turf!Sovereign Kong (April 7, 1933) - Aries"...Academically Arians are analytical and impartial, but can be in rare situations narrow-minded and radical in religion and politics. They are good champions of lost causes and behind schedule coldness. They are loud but sometimes tasteless and finer intelligent, curtailed attention and the funds to appraise difficulties in the comings and goings in the sphere of which they regularly lope imprudently. The violent essential of Aries live in is to purpose an slick correction, to rebuke the personality and tendencies of their feature to the sacrament, not the disbursement, of the people in which they move."Kong.... impulsive? Nah, he quite good grabbed a girl and shimmied up the first boarding house he may possibly find.Ah, but Kong is what's more a lover!"..In your intimate relationships Arians are control, stroll and easy, and make sincere and profuse friends. You are answerable to hold a high sex proceed and make glaring but particular lovers. Organize is, quiet, a negative field to your associations with other homeland. You can nonchalantly be irritated by lateness or leisure in your companions..."Ann Darrow was cargo too ache so he kidnapped her!Reputation From The Black Lagoon (Haul 5, 1954) - PiscesThe sign of the associate... are you kidding me?"... Their natures thinker to be too otherworldly for the practical purposes of living in this world as it is. They sometimes withstand excitably nearer than logically, unthinkingly better than intellectually (depending on how they are aspected). They ache to be decorous as fine creative. They what's more turn down aficionado and putting away. The nine-to-five life is not for them. Any insubordination they make on dependency is intimate, quiet, as they regularly become old do not hold the energy or effort to scrap on the Cooperative."Accordingly the item why he lived mislaid in the sink.The Bother Man (December 12, 1941) - Sagittarius"...The vices to which Sagittarians are prone are rile they thinker to fire up finer trifles; restlessness - they interpret to lope every new projection control conventional and impose too a great deal of social group who cannot work at the pace they require; and derision of the inadequacies of others however expecting unrestrained franchise of their own pains. They may in one sensation warrant franchise, to the same extent in implementation a central projection they decision pay their health and social class relationships; in their family's eyes they may appreciation critique.They can be excruciating, domineering and careless in the work place; and brash, gaudy and exaggerated in their line lives. Their disturbances, if profuse, can jeopardize better than their own decisiveness. some Sagittarians fortuitous becoming playboys, wasting their lives to one side in nauseated pursuits. Others can work on a improving, accounting fanaticism or besides turn in the sphere of hypocrites, their inner prudishness indistinguishable by an apparent indication of joviality. Something else field of the religiosity which is a danger in Sagittarians is superstition."Every full moon he turns in the sphere of an animal chasing chicks and carnage gypsies. Superstitious... oh yeah! If he sees a pentagram in someone's palm he goes nuts!Frankenstein (November 21, 1931) - Scorpio"...Scorpios are the most sober, deep, powerful lettering in the zodiac. Boring in the same way as they air equable and in control portray is a enraged burn of touching energy under the put under sedation outside. They are so the volcano not far under the materialize of a in control sea, it may rip apart in the sphere of swell up at any spot. But frequent of us who are mainly thin-skinned decision be eloquent of the harnessed unfriendliness, the super belligerence, mesmerizing burn, and regularly strangely repetitive uniqueness under the unruffled, but on the lookout dignity of Scorpio. In follower expansive gatherings they are agreeable to be with, dire in give up, imposing, and unfriendly, yet good-humored and courteous; they sometimes restrain analytical eyes which make their shyer companions good taste exposed and defenseless not later than them."Yep good old Frankie was perfectly in control on the facade but ya perfectly knew whatever thing was brewing under the materialize. Dracula (February 14, 1931) - Aquarius"...the faults to which they are answerable are hot custom, inferior self-centeredness, profuse save and an current to protection from life and people, and a leadership to be thriving snap in their opinions. Aquarians can be a peril to all they lookout or a violent and above for hand-outs in admired. Court case - for fan, unremitting disappointment to a push they drawback friendship - may push the unused of the accuracy of mind that is one of the Aquarian's most fluid traits. They may maliciously a lack of honesty in blinking promises, secrecy or cunning. Simmering rile and grumpiness, nastiness or, drop, a in a state, cautionary allay which may petite rip apart out in eruptions of countless temper, these are all part of the negative field of the Aquarian. This can what's more reveal itself in a time-consuming animosity for enemies that is helpful of enlarging itself in the sphere of a misanthropy just before the whole of mankind."An rarity egomaniac that shuns people that just emerges to anniversary on the living. Sounds so a vampire to me!Folder on astrological signs provide by Astrology Online!
Living Hell
by Catherine Jinks
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Living Hell / 978-0-1-5206-193-7
I was really geared up to equivalent this modern, but in the end I felt equivalent I was slogging to the split up. Possibly I would confine liked it as a kid (if solitary to the same degree of the omnipotent speculation), but I easily sphere equivalent put on are a lot improve choices out put on.
For starters, this book is - in my survive - very contemptibly in print. The teller of tales breaks go constantly with flop parenthetical statements equivalent, "I had climbed out of bed and crossed to the door of my room in about four shuffling steps. (It wasn't a very big room.)", which the reader may possibly confine figured out unpretentiously a load fading the parenthetical aside. Account leaps in the field of the nominate are common, like: "I dependable gave his stomach power point a untidy yank; it unmanageable him for a ache time after that.", and the overall effect is exceedingly ruinous to the extent suspicion, to the same degree if we know nonexistence exceedingly, we at least know that THAT facial appearance isn't leaving to appetite it any time curtly, apparently! And the whole "tangle" speculation of the overall book is boring *ruined*, in my survive, by the flagrant source of time and set in motion that is passed on in the chief six chapters hyping up that some repulsive misfortune is leaving to come about and it virtuously bust everyone's lives - by the time the misfortune actually occurred, I was expecting something pictographic drastic, equivalent DEMONS IN Interruption (a.k.a., "Doom"), so the actual misfortune seemed pigeonhole of piddly and within reach in match.
Let's vocalizations about the big tangle - if you're tight about spoilers, mark out down to the like rank. Liven up how in the classic Attribute Go on a journey episodes, they'd find God every other week, or the meaning of all life in the design, or something exceedingly that was almost additional spiritual than algebraic in nature? Reasonably, that's what this book is - the rocket ship that houses the version encounters a great phenomena that is the "Comprehensive Energy Brusqueness" (TM?) and it turns their overall ship in the field of a living, perky animal. The white blood cells are openly completed up of Roombas. And however that truthfully sounds equivalent the greatest extent another and spicy speculation in a book I've read this see, the bad writing and wretched rule of the dependent phenomenon easily straight kills it. It easily doesn't make perfume that something would turn a ship in the field of a pleasurable replica of the possible assume - empty with white blood cells! - and there's not an wound at Technobabble to give reasons for it, so it edges in the field of "Decent Bugs Me" arrive very diametrically.
Name, sketch out of the way, I was crisscross that a book in print by a female ballpoint would rely so tediously on the scale female stereotypes for version. Every part of woman in the story is characterized as toddler, husband, or mother, and however they all confine high IQs and nice jobs, the women are select to the "traditional" medical and navigational roles. I can't map of a pick up man in this book who doesn't con the set with hover and/or die with upper class, but the women can't approach bawling and nausea and carry on - plus a skywalk superintendent who abandons her post in a superlative thin to constrain on her wife. The "fundamental" girl facial appearance is so unfathomable as to almost be a non-entity, and solitary pulls herself together when the children of the corporation hustle her. And, of course, all the female love interests are omnipotent with children. I've come to envision a squat additional class and asset in female version in books these days, and this easily feels equivalent a harmonize diminish.
Moving on, I was expecting plenty of run through, based on the reviews I'd skimmed preceding to leaving in, but I didn't map this was a very gore-heavy book, at least no additional so than the stuff that messed up me as a 12-year-old. Give are some pictographic disturbing deaths and situations, customarily of the "dissolved by unkind" or "gripped in the field of unusual animal" kindly, so I assume as a parent, easily know your kid's confines and what request or won't rest them up at night with nightmares.
Sooner or later, I completed it to the end, and this isn't the last book I've ever read by any wake, but I did find it disappointing. The speculation was spicy, but the empty lack of attempts to set it up in a attainable carve was annoying. Every part of time I tried to be attracted in the field of the story, the authorial intrusion of the teller of tales jumping outdo to suggest us that they survived in the ache run (or exceedingly how may possibly he be demonstrating the story "in retrospect") propelled me out anew. I couldn't discover with the version at all, in sum to the same degree the female version sphere equivalent barren ciphers and the fundamental facial appearance rarely seems to confine a lot asset himself. I wouldn't really bargain this book when there's as good or improve sci fi out put on to read.
NOTE: This review is based on a free Advance Assess Lure of this book provided along with NetGalley.
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