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Roses of Blood on Barbwire Vines
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780978970710
ISBN: 0978970713
Label: Permuted Press
Manufacturer: Permuted Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: June 01, 2007
Publisher: Permuted Press
Studio: Permuted Press
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Editorial Review:
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.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - 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 ... Read More
Rating: - 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 ... Read More
Rating:  - Great idea, but....
.... the writer got lost somewhwere. I expected an original story about Vampires and Zombies... and for the first 25 pages all I got was Vampire porn. Not even good porn at that... LOL.... needless to say, I didn't get to far into this book before deciding it wasn't worth my time.
Rating:  - Metaphors and an overused vernacular make for a difficult read
I'm on a zombie book kick right now and want to read what people rate as the best. DL Snell tried to be a literary genius by making each descriptive sentence into some metaphor or simile. I'm an educated person and I can grasp and understand these, but it does require one to think, thus making it a slower read.
Another complaint is that each chapter is about 3-4 pages long. It would seem that instead of trying to link each scene change with some words, he'd rather just end the chapter.
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Rating: - The best kind of vampire story - a new one
Vampires tend to be subdivided into leather-clad Matrix ripoffs and brooding, oversexualized social castoffs. While Snell's vampires are very erotic and pack a lot of firepower, the author gives us an original and engaging take on vampires as they struggle to eke out an existence in a world plagued by the undead. Herding humans like cattle while watching over their shoulders for the advancing zombie hordes, it's a welcome breath of fresh air to see bloodsuckers in this type of scenario.
And the zombies ... Read More
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