A Dozen Black Roses

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Summary: She's Back!
Review: Sonya Blue, Nancy Collins's unforgettable vampire slaying heroine returns in this very violent and gripping adventure.This time Sonya who is only known as The Stranger enters the sinister
city of Deadtown.Deadtown is the bloody battleground of two competing vampire lords, Sinjon who has ruled the city for almost two centuries and Esher the utterly ruthless younger vampire who wants the city for himself.They both traffic in drugs and use psychotic gangbangers as their armies.Sonya befriends Cloudy, a aging hippy and Ryan a young boy who's mother is controlled by Esher. Sonya decides to detroy both vampires, who are called Kindred in the novel.This short novel is filled with scenes of very graphic violence and visceral action sequences.The characters like the brave boy, Ryan are also very well drawn and the villians such as Esher and his sadistic vampire henchwoman, Decima also are memorable.My own complain of this book is that is really is a dark fantasy remake of two films: Yojimbo and Clint Eastwood's spaghatti western fistful of dollars.Once I knew the similarities between the book and those movies I guessed what would happen next in the plot and I was right all of the time.If u seen these movies you will remember what does happen in the novel as well.But other than that be prepared as Sonya Blue puts you under her spell as she puts the vampires dead under for good!

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Summary: The Modern Vampire / The Modern Woman
Review: This book kicked some serious ass!! Loved it from cover to cover, and didn't want it to end. Very graphic which makes it all the better. Had kind of a dark "The Crow" kind of aura about it. Would highly recomend it to anyone interested in the macabre, vampires, or just a goth chick killing vampires and doing a damn good job of it!

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Summary: The Modern Vampire / The Modern Woman
Review: This book kicked some serious ass!! Loved it from cover to cover, and didn't want it to end. Very graphic which makes it all the better. Had kind of a dark "The Crow" kind of aura about it. Would highly recomend it to anyone interested in the macabre, vampires, or just a goth chick killing vampires and doing a damn good job of it!

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Summary: Brief commentary concerning A DOZEN BLACK ROSES
Review: When I was asked to write a "cross-over" novel between White Wolf's World of Darkness Vampire: The Masquerade RPG and my punk vampire/vampire-slayer character Sonja Blue, I tried my best to blend the two as seamlessly as possible.( And, if it is any help to my fans, the events chronicled in ROSES are "out of continuity"--like those old comic stories where Superman's robot double married a mermaid in a wheelchair.) In any case, I did my best to make it easy for those readers unfamiliar with my work or the Vampire RPG to pick up the book and (hopefully) get a good read out of it.

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Summary: Good, but has continuity problems with the earlier SB story.
Review: While fans of the Masquerade universe will find SB a welcome addition, the SB story loses its edge. The game playing framework hangs rather awkwardly on an elemental force like Sonya Blue.