Book Review: Noise by Darin Bradley

'In the aftermath of the switch from analog to digital TV, an anarchic movement known as Salvage hijacks the unused airwaves. Mixed in with the static's random noise are dire warnings of the imminent economis , political and social collapse of civilization - and cold-blooded lessons on how to survive the fall and prosper in the harsh new order that will inevitably arise from the ashes of the old.

Hiram and Levi are two young men, former Scouts and veterans of countless Dungeons & Dragons campaigns. Now, on the blood-drenched battlefields of university campuses, shopping malls and gated communities, they will find themselves taking on new identities and new moralities as they lead a ragtag band of hackers and misfits to an all-but-mythical place called Amaranth, where a fragile future waits to be born.'


That is what you read when you pick up Noise by Darin Bradley the first time, trying to get a feel for the book. But its nothing compared to what you find inside nor does it prepare you for just what your about to pick up. The story follows Hiram, and Levi by fault as his best friend, through the preparations for the Collapse, for the Event and as they execute their Event Exit Strategy. As they move from First Place to Second Place and finally to the Place, Amaranth. As they pick up Outsiders as Secondaries. And it pulls into question everything you've ever thought was 'right'!

One of the big things in this story is the Book. They all live by this book but the different groups within Salvage have different books. Its all about what they picked up from airwaves and what they wrote down. This book outlines that when the collapse happens you are to get to your Place with your Group and do whatever is necessary to do so. Nothing but your Place and your Group matter. But not before the Event because then you start with criminal acts and you don't go into this clean. So they wait untill the Event and they take what they need not steal and so forth. They use force to get what they need because laws don't matter anymore......

Its a really hard book to talk about because at times things are explained in such detail that you know everything thats going on down to the last detail and six sentences later everything you thought you knew has been torn to shreds. People are dead and you don't know how or they're out saving people that aren't part of their group. And next thing you know there is a flashback to his past, sometimes just middle of the sentence is from the past but the rest is present. Either way once you get use to the style its easy to read, you just end up reading small sections a couple times to make sure you got it. I would say its kinda like reading Chuck Palahniuk's stuff.

What really shook me about this book was its relevance though. It put me into the mind that if the Occupy Wall Street had been an underground operation as well as quite a bit less peaceful then this could be the world that we  would be living in. Or even still a world that we're heading towards now. That the collapse of things as we know them could lead to this very world. Where in order to survive your gonna need to find people and a place and just whole yourself up there and hope for the best. Where there will be people more willing then I to kill someone just to keep their place or their stuff. Or to kill to get more stuff. What struck me about this book is that this could really happen and its not just some fantasy.......a story.

Those are my thoughts on the book!! Hope you liked them!!

Thanks as always for reading <3

Book Review: Halloween by Silver Ravenwolf

So this book was on my reading list because I thought it might help me with my research.......and in a way it does.....it helps me get into the minds of those I'm trying to but to tell you the truth I don't ever much like her 

books. This one takes you through a quick history of Halloween which works well into my research and will be something that I have to work on more later......but she does it in such as way as to pretend she speaks only to children. Or its just rather silly and not at all to my taste.

Once out of that she works her way through superstitions and different ghouls and ghosties......but its still all rather silly. And then all her spells are geared towards Halloween so expect certain themes in them.

The part I liked most about this book I have to say is the end. Where she does a little to speak to people of not fearing the dead and ways to speak to those loved ones you lost. Which I feel is something more people should do in these times........and the guest section. Which gave a nice it of information about the lifestyles of modern woman who practice.........

Now on a whole there is good information in this book......but if your one that wants their information in a serious tone then I recommend that you don't read this book as much of it is spent in rather silly ideas (Broomstick Flights......like they have an in flight movie).

As always thanks for reading ^.^

Book Review: The Science of Vampires

For those of you that are into vampires but not into more then their fictional stories this is not the book for you. For those of you that have questions about the possibility of vampires and such then you might like this book.

I read this book mainly for research purposes but must say I enjoy it. It covers every aspect of vampires starting with how the myths might of began through purely scientific explanations (like did you know that some bodies may look like they were buried yesterday but be over 100 years in the ground?). It goes through the changes that happen in the body to become a vampire and once again scientific ways in which those changes might occur. It delves into the psyche of the vampire and those who believe themselves to be vampires (including many well known serial killers). And concludes itself in the many different magical aspects of a vampire that does have human counterparts........such as necromancy.


Now would I say that everyone read this book......no. But if you like scientific things or just knowledge or if your very much into vampires and would like to know more about them in a modern sense then by all means dive right in. It a short book of about 255 pages and a relatively light/easy read.

This is book/movie review number 3 (basically research #3) for me and I have to say things are fitting together a little better then I thought. Any idea as to what I might be reaserching? Or to what means?

As always thanx for reading.........

Book Review: The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice

So I thought I'd start doing reviews on books I read (which are many) and the movies I watch (this number is quite larger)......just as a means of showing y'all what I'm up to when I'm not doing exciting things.......and to see if y'all can maybe pick up a pattern in my reading habits right now.......

So to start it off I just finished the Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice. And it looks rather a lot like this book here. As in all three come in one book. So I can review them together.

The first being Interview with a Vampire. Now reading this was very interesting because I've watched the movie as many of you have, I'm sure. Now while reading it I notice the small (and not so small changes) made in plot between the two.......for those of you that have neither read the book nor watched the move I'll give a quick over view......This novel follows Louis de Point du Lac as he tells his story to David, a reporter. Now early on in the story Louis is changed into a vampire by Lestat and they continue to live a normal life (all be it a tortured one for the novels main character as he still seems to live under the rule of morality and to all intents has a soul). Until sometime when Louis wants to leave Lestat. Enter Claudia, Lestat's way of keeping Louis around until the fateful day that Louis and Claudia escape together in search of other like themselves. Finally settling in Paris they are to find their first sign of other vampires at the Theatre de Vampires. And this story starts to unwind as Claudia is put to death with her new fledgling mother (made for her by Louis). Louis takes his revenge on the theater and leaves with Armand (the man who ran the theater) to travel for years before returning to New Orleans where it all started to see Lestat. And that leads up to his story being told to the reporter. A story that falls on dead ears............

The second book is The Vampire Lestat, now a rock star it is his self titled autobiography. It follows a younger Lestat de Lioncourt from being the son of a lower nobility to him running away to live in Paris with a childhood friend to be an actor. Where a vampire seeks him out to be made into what he is. To make a child to follow him before throwing himself onto the fire. Lestat finds he has inherited the tower as well as a large sum of money which he uses to make life comfortable for those he loves. I'm gonna rather shorten the amount of information that was in that book down but here is what is important......he makes his mother and friend into vampires to keep him company. And once they are gone he wanders alone until the day his friend dies. He buries himself in the earth at the time till one of the old ones comes to get him. Marius comes to get him and introduces him to The Ones Who Must Be Kept. And tell him all his secrets making him swear never to tell anyone and telling him to live a normal life with his dad in New Orleans. Where him, Louis and Claudia live for well over 70 years. Then the tragedies happen and he goes into the earth again to rise in the 80's. He becomes a rock star and author to tell all the stories of vampires to human kind. To cause a war. And it all ends right after his rock show.......

The last book in this series is The Queen of the Damned. This one is a lot harder to explain. Akasha one of Those Who Must Be Kept wakes finally to the world. The first part is a bunch of stories from different vampires and humans about vampires being burnt to death without being touched and all the coven houses going down. Once you get to it not being a bunch of different points of view there are really only two. When you are with Lestat as he and Akasha demolish all the men in small cities for Akasha's dream. Or with the group of those vampires that Lestat loves or that are too strong to be easily destroyed where you learn the beginnings of Akasha and the story of the twins. It all ends in them being well alive and Akasha being very much dead. But its an interesting journey.

Now while I know that in itself was a lot to read I have a little more to say about this series. Anne Rice gives us many new ideas to think of about the vampire when it comes to the differences between them and Dracula, or the average vampire. Many new powers and ideas.......and while the first book is an easy read the second two are rather longer and a little harder to read. Might just of been the type on mine but I felt like we were trying to crunch two books in one with each.......But I would recommend that anyone that is interested should read them given that they have read her stuff before and know what they are getting themselves into.....

Well as always lovelies thanx for reading.....

PS as a side note....in her recent relapse into religion Anne Rice now states that she did not write these books lol