Added by: michael5276122 | Karma: 0 | Fiction literature | 23 August 2012
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14 Novels for your Pleasure. Peter Clement - Mortal Remains. / John Connolly - The Black Angel. / Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange. / Barry Eisler - The Last Assassin. / Nicci French - Beneath the Skin. / Thomas Harris - Black Sunday. / Thomas Harris - Red Dragon. / Thomas Harris - Hannibal Rising. / Thomas Harris - The Silence of the Lambs. / Moreton Casey - The Greater Good. / Preston Richard - The Cobra Event. / Robert McCammon - They Thirst. / Samuel Shem - The house of god. / Sidny Sheldon - Are You Afraid Of The Dark.
A year or so before the beginning of World War I, a young woman named Lisa la Giuffria is seduced by a white magician, Cyril Grey, and persuaded into helping him in a magical battle with a black magician and his black lodge. Grey is attempting to raise the level of his force by impregnating the girl with the soul of an ethereal being — the moonchild. To achieve this, she will have to be kept in a secluded environment, and many preparatory magical rituals will be…
The characters here are well developed and engaging. Durango is quite the hero. He struggles with moral dilemmas, knows his own fallibility and still manages to be one tough dude. Vienne is excellent as his second, and the supporting characters of miners and bad guys are all memorable. I truly hope this becomes a series. Durango and Vienne make quite a duo and I am eager to learn what kind of trouble they get into next and also where their relationship might be headed. This is a solid recommend for teens grade 8 and up. There's quite a bit of violence and death. Fans of the Hunger Games will find much to like here, although this one is a bit more hard core sci-fi. Very well written.
In the middle of the Indian Ocean, a NUMA research vessel is taking water samples at sunset when a crew member spots a sheen of black oil ahead of them. But it is not oil. Like a horde of army ants, a swarm of black particles suddenly attacks the ship, killing everyone aboard, while the ship itself goes up in flames.
