Diary of a Vampire

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Summary: Finalist for Bram Stoker Award
Review: After five years in novel-writing hell, the book's finally in print. Not only that, but it's a Finalist for the Bram Stoker Award. Nonetheless, my advice for anyone comtemplating writing a novel is to go lie down until the feeling goes away.

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Summary: Blurb from back of book:
Review: The chilling, arousing, and ultimately moving memoirs of an undead-- but all too human--soul. Bowen's Rafael, a red-blooded male with an insatiable hunger for the same, is the perfect antidote to the effete malcontents haunting bookstores today. Diary of a Vampire marks the emergence of a bold and brilliant vision, firmly rooted in the past and present.

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Summary: This book definatly appeals to a very specific genre.
Review: This book began interestingly, and then jumped around a bit, finally settling on a decidedly effeminate protagonist. Although I am sure that this book appeals to a certain crowd, I found the "hotter" scenes to be more humorous than erotic. Perhaps it is my personal bias, but I find it hard to not smirk at the thought of a middle-aged man screaming "queen bitch!" at an ageless male vampire who is too shallow and flaky to retaliate. I would have been far more prepared for the nature of this story had the back-of-the-book-blurb been more descriptive.

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Summary: Not really my style
Review: This book seemed more to be a gay S&M fantasy novel that happened to have vampires in it rather than a vampire novel. I was rather disappointed by how unrealistically the characters seemed to respond to different things, and further disappointed by the inconsistency of the vampire's powers themselves.

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Summary: Not really my style
Review: This book seemed more to be a gay S&M fantasy novel that happened to have vampires in it rather than a vampire novel. I was rather disappointed by how unrealistically the characters seemed to respond to different things, and further disappointed by the inconsistency of the vampire's powers themselves.

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Summary: Not half bad...
Review: This was interesting. I usually think vampires are silly - after that dreadful Rice-woman's stuff - but Gary Bowen provides a more twisted tale. And it makes such a change to have a gay vampire - a really gay one, not one of the macho butch cliches which are becoming so popular these days. Raphael is a true queen - a kinky queen at that. The story drew me in - it's fairly un-pc, which was also refreshing - and kept me reading to the end. On top of all that, I got aroused: no mean feat at my age, Mr Bowen. Thanks for making an older man happy. I'd recommend this book to anyone, and urge the publishers to get it back in print pronto

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Summary: boring!
Review: Unrealistic characters,everybody in this book is an idiot. Wooden and superfluent plot and by far too much ado about sex. More rediculous than erotic. Boring!