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Roses of Blood on Barbwire Vines [Kindle Edition]

Z.A. Recht
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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.

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 650 KB
  • Print Length: 257 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0978970713
  • Publisher: Permuted Press (1 Jun 2007)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B001QXDTW6
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #155,055 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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D. L. Snell
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Some people, I am sure, will find this a superbly written novel and perhaps even quasi-erotic. Snell has a very creative and poetic writing style which, although impressive, I found it over the top. Snell takes the use of metaphors to the extreme and sometimes the links to the words he has replaced are so obscure that it takes time to interpret the sentence which gets a bit tiresome.

The zombies aren't really zombies in the true sense. Snell refers to them as 'puppets' as they are driven by a parasite that mutates and grows large tentacles, yes I said tentacles! As I bought this book primarily for the zombie aspect, this did disappoint me as I find the idea of the living dead with tentacles just a step too far! Vampire fans will probably enjoy Snell's take on the genre: he delivers a dark, sadomasochistic story which is as far a cry from Twilight as you can get.

Despite my misgivings, this is still a good story with good characters, and in places will have you gripped...oh, why the tentacles :-(
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By Ursula K. Raphael TOP 500 REVIEWER
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Zombies overrun the world, and vampires are forced to gather human survivors like cattle for food. There is dissention within the vampire ranks. The idea of vampires suffering through an apocalypse & having to scavenge for a blood supply while dealing with internal conflicts sounded like a great idea at the time. Then I read the book.

Where do I begin? This is not a zombie story. Not even close. This is a vampire story with some infected undead thrown in for some extra drama...and the undead were more like alien body snatcher-types...and it wasn't even a good vampire story...although, Ann's POV (Ann being one of the human captives) was completely awesome, and the novel might have been better off if Ann had been the central character rather than the vampire Shade.

Shade. Frost. The names of the vampires alone made me think I was reading some Goth kid's wet dream, but I don't want to insult Goths by suggesting that they fantasize about melodramatic vampires and urine.

The bad parts: Snell appears to have a urine fetish, uses LOTS of adjectives and adverbs...the story is basically drowning in urine and flowery descriptions of everything...and the sexual content was the absolute worst I've ever read in a horror novel. The overabundance of descriptions does drop off when the action heats up, and the end of the story was a thousand times better than the beginning, but it was too little, too late.

The thing is, with Snell's character Ann, and her struggles throughout the book, you get an idea of Snell's future potential - and Snell's writing style has greatly improved since he wrote Roses. (My favorite story of his is Remains in Elements of the Apocalypse.)

My recommendation is that you read something else of Snell's first, and then give this a try, since it appears that the majority of readers enjoyed this story.
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A fairly good read 25 July 2010
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I liked the basic storyline of this book, vampires fighting zombies over the last few humans left alive, and the vampires were suitably nasty etc.(I won't give anything else away, the synopsis says enough). However I sometimes found the book itself a bit hard going. In places it was difficult to decide if something was happening in a character's mind or not, and I found the descriptive language a bit strange. Having said that, I did enjoy it but in my opinion it is definately not light reading!!
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