The Stress of Her Regard

this will be my goodreads reading challenge goal-meeting book!! unless i change my goal again. but i don't have much time left... real review: 'twas the week before christmas and all through the apartment, not a creature was stirring except for this varmint. he jumped onto the bed and slapped me in the......more

Odd book this. It's very interesting and very well written. I go only three stars on it because the interest (at least my interest) wains badly at places in the book. This is in "a way" a vampire story. As is so often the case today the author rewrites the vampire myth tying it in with or more correc......more

If you have yet to discover Powers, what a treat awaits you! For those of you who have read his earlier work, such as The Anubis Gates and On Stranger Tides, I know I'll be preaching to the converted when I say that Powers is one of the most exciting authors writing fantasy today. He is one of the p......more

Weighty, sloppy, thought-provoking, ill-disciplined, moving, incredibly-researched, boring, electrifying, intelligent fantasy. This one very nearly became the first book on my abandoned pile a great many times, it is a novel that demands work from you in exchange for the most meagre of rewards for ro......more

The one where a hapless doctor accidentally gets himself involved with a race of strange vampirish creatures, which gets him involved with Byron and Shelley. I liked what this book did with the creatures, combining all different strands of folklore and of science. But I didn't like the book, chiefly......more