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Roses of Blood on Barbwire Vines
By: D.L. Snell Publisher: Permuted Press Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: Permuted Press Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 256 Publication Date: June 01, 2007
Product Description: Zombies have devoured mankind. And the few survivors would be better off dead because a clan of vampires, bloodthirsty and vicious, have captured the remnants of humanity for livestock.
In an apartment building barricaded with wrecked cars, concrete rubble, and snarls of barbwire, the vampires breed lobotomized amputees. Ann, the secret blood slave of the maternity doctor, has evaded this fate, yet her sister Ellie has not. Though she longs to escape, Ann cannot abandon her sibling and unborn niece. But she may have to if she wants to survive.
The living dead have found a weak spot in the barricade and are quickly invading the building. Shade, the vampire monarch, defends her kingdom, while Frost, Shade's general, plans to migrate to an island where they can breed and hunt humans. In their path stands a legion of corpses, just now evolving into something far more lethal, something with tentacles---and that's just the beginning.
Beating Metaphors To Death! This has got to be one of the worst books I've ever read. I've never seen a author use so many mindless metaphors. The book is almost unreadable. It's short - but just getting through one chapter will take a massive effort.
50 pages is enough I tried. I really did.
I can't remember the last book I stopped reading before finishing it, but this one, I couldn't make past 50 pages. Actually, 48 pages. 8 Chapters.
I tried, but I just can't read it anymore.
First, I hate to give bad reviews, and will only do when a book or movie really deserves it. And this one does.
When I bought the book, I had high hopes. Zombies AND Vampires. What could be better? I love zombie fiction and have read a ton of zombie books over the past few years, some good, some great, some awesome, but this is the first stinker that I've read....or attempted to read.
My complaints are similiar to the other criticisms of this book. One, it's way too over descriptive, to the point I had to re-read a few things because I wasn't sure what the hell the author was talking about. Being descriptive is good, but being overly descriptive in every sentence of every paragraph on every page is not just annoying, but very distracting. Instead of adding to the story, it takes away, and makes it a hard read.
Second, instead of a horror story, the book comes off as a poor romance novel. There is very little in the way of action or zombies in the first 50 pages, but plenty of overly described sex and masturbation that adds zero to the story. It seems the only reason all the sex was in the book is it must've got the author all hot and bothered writing it.
Unfortunately, it doesn't have the same effect on the reader.
And, 50 pages in, all I know that's going on is one vampire wants to go someplace else, and some woman kinda would like to escape, but doesn't want to leave her pregnant sister. Not much of a story to keep you hooked, but a whole lot of meaningless filler.
I probably won't try reading this book again, since I won't have that 'I wonder how it ended' question lingering, since there really wasn't much of a plot in the first 8 chapters.
Maybe the book gets better, and I'm missing out. Somehow I doubt it though.
Limbless Bodies Swaying.... Wow!! This is a book written by D.L.Snell. I have never read anything by him as he is a new horror novel author on the block. Without a doubt this guy can write. If you love good Zombie Novels this one is a must read. I repeat if you love Good writing do not hesitate.
This story is about the last survivors of a zombie holocaust which happens to be a few mortals and a superior group of immortals, fighting the mutating hordes of the reincarnated dead. Their are limbless bodies swaying. The wording flows with poetry and disturbing realism. Barricades built with mountains of ATM machines, drink machines and of course barbwire. If you want to read something worth your time Please read Roses of Blood on Barbwire Vines. Enjoy this masterpiece. The title will all become clear.
Rich in word-play but stands out from the crowd... [...]
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'Roses Of Blood On Barbwire Vines is an excellent debut from a promising horror writer. Its mixing of genres will appeal to many, yet confuse others. Fans of character-driven horror may find the vamps a little two-dimensional (and brutal) to really root for, and, with a shortfall in humans to get your identifiable teeth into (GROAN!), Roses may lose a little of its potency. Yet, for lovers of hardcore horror, with writing as strikingly gorgeous as the book's lead vixen, DL Snell's your man.'
Dark story by a descriptive writer Well, I was approached by Snell over a year ago about this book. He saw that I was a zombie fan and thought I might like to read his writing.
I've since thanked him very much for making me aware of it's presence.
D.L.Snell is a very dark and descriptive writer, at least when it comes to horror. I don't know what other writing he may have participated in aside from horror books. But, with that said, Roses of Blood is a descriptive piece of work following a group of vampires that are trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic world filled with zombies. The city is in ruins and almost all of humanity is dead. The problem this poses for vampire kind is that their food source is almost gone, so the few human survivors that the vampires have left they use extremely strict and graphic methods to control. All the while two of the head vampires are vying for control over the rest of the vamps, one wishes to lead them to safety outside the city while the other wants to defend their stronghold to the end in the name of her father. Meanwhile the zombies are mutating, becoming stronger by the day, and constantly breaching further through the vampires defenses.
In all, I'm not a fan of vampires. The vampires in the story were typical, dark, moody, Gothic as well as soldiers. Each vampire that was written about had their own particular quirks, keeping them all interesting as characters. What I liked best about the story were the zombies. Dead humans were being re-animated by some sort of hive mind creature (sort of) that lived inside the corpses heads. The creatures were constantly developing and evolving throughout the story, granting the zombies stronger powers as the story progressed. The zombies really made the story for me, because they were a fresh and unique angle on the undead that few writers utilize.
Anyways, the story has some graphic torture, some graphic sex, and a lot of graphic violence. If you don't want to read about that stuff, pass on this one. If you want a dark and descriptive read, this is an excellent book for you.
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