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Summary: sexy, funny, violent sword and sorcery
Review: This thing is a trip---you've never read anything like it before. Huges doses of fighting, magic, and sex. Good characters---the bad guys are very deranged. Read it!
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Summary: Great art and good story.
Review: This was a good read. I couldn't call it great but worth my time. The setting is well done and he has created characters who are compatible. It's worth the money.
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Summary: Perfect
Review: What more could you need or ask for in a book? This book has it all. It's sexy its violent but not just for sex and violence's sake. Blood + Pearls has great characters, great description, great illustrations and a great story. I can't wait for book 2: Jagutai and Lilitu.
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Summary: I'll Never View Pearls in Quite the Same Way Again
Review: Why did I like this book? Because the author respects his audience. "Blood and Pearls" is well-written, funny, clever and action-packed. As one reads the book, the novel's images, from the burning Firedrake to the spider-covered Dessicatorius, burn through the brain in full Technicolor, complete with sound effects and even a hint of the stench of the Warren. The plot races along so quickly that one isn't immediately aware of the excellence of the writing. The sentences flow easily, but the author chooses words that convey nuances of meaning just through their sounds, as in the following examples: "a broad shouldered brute lumbered," "a perverse delight discomfiting her" and "eyes black and slanted, hardly more than obsidian slits." I loved reading a book in which it was quite clear that the author hadn't run his prose through a computer program designed to catch any writing or vocabulary above an eighth-grade reading level. I found myself pausing at intervals to read passages out loud because the words just plain sounded great! Possibly because the book is hilarious, one also does not immediately notice that it's cleverly thought-provoking. Do humans move toward goodness because it is ultimately more efficient? Does true evil gradually wear itself out of existence because it has no inherent creative wellspring? The truly evil creatures in the novel head toward dry dust and death, while the "good" characters slowly turn toward redemption and life. Of course, except for Jagutai who stands as a beacon of goodness in the novel, they all have a ways to go before that redemption is complete. The journey promises to be a compelling one. Oh, are you wondering about the reference to the pearls in the title? You'll have to read the book for that explanation ...
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Summary: Graphically violent, sexually explicit Sword & Sorcery
Review: With 15 other reviews of the book on this website ALL of which give it five stars, there is nothing left for me to say that hasn't already been said except that I was sufficiently enthusiastic after having read it that I tracked down the other six book in the Zancharthus universe currently available online and ordered them all!
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