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Full Moon
The blood reserves at Canada's Red Cross are at frighteningly low levels. Prime Minister Harper Collins recruits a pair of vampires from Transylvania to come suck the nation's blood!
240 pages, ebook
First published August 5, 2014
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David Belisle
19 books8 followersA scant 300 km from an America awash in authoritarianism, I can only watch. And write. “Remember Mar-a-Guano!” and my latest book “Put the Chairs in the Wagon” bring home the trials and tribulations of my birth country being thrown out with the bath water. I hang out my shingle in Calgary, where I live with my wife and our chihuahua princess, Maybelline.
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June 12, 2018
What a crazy book!
Full Moon is one of the craziest, cleverest, silliest, and funniest books about vampires out there. Not they don't sparkle but one is afraid of the sight of blood. One finds his soul mate in a misquote! It is filled with the most witty things! Totally worth the read! Love the crazy cover too!
Full Moon is one of the craziest, cleverest, silliest, and funniest books about vampires out there. Not they don't sparkle but one is afraid of the sight of blood. One finds his soul mate in a misquote! It is filled with the most witty things! Totally worth the read! Love the crazy cover too!
February 20, 2018
This was completely unexpected! Vampires, and mosquitoes and psychics, oh my!
I should have known from the blurb that the book would be packed with humor, and it was. One-liners, puns, and humorous turns of phrase abound… if I had to guess, at least one per paragraph!
The plot was completely unexpected – who could have guessed all the twists and turns two vampires would go through after the Canadian government enlists them to help increase blood availability in the woefully under-stocked Canadian blood banks. This book pokes a lot of fun at all kinds of topics: Canadians, politics, Native Indians, psychics, marriage, doctors, true love, the idea of swooning good looks, and so much more… and – of course – vampires.
If you are looking for a light read, full of goofy shenanigans and plot twists, this is the book for you.
True rating: 3.5 stars.
I should have known from the blurb that the book would be packed with humor, and it was. One-liners, puns, and humorous turns of phrase abound… if I had to guess, at least one per paragraph!
The plot was completely unexpected – who could have guessed all the twists and turns two vampires would go through after the Canadian government enlists them to help increase blood availability in the woefully under-stocked Canadian blood banks. This book pokes a lot of fun at all kinds of topics: Canadians, politics, Native Indians, psychics, marriage, doctors, true love, the idea of swooning good looks, and so much more… and – of course – vampires.
If you are looking for a light read, full of goofy shenanigans and plot twists, this is the book for you.
True rating: 3.5 stars.
July 24, 2019
A Fun Read
Actual Rating: 3.5 Stars
An inspired satire of culture, heritage and popular trends. In the introduction we meet two young vampires, Dragos and his adoptive brother, Bogdan. From that point, the differences in the two, both personality-wise and morally are made and carried through (most) of the story. It does initially come off as a little confusing wince it’s set up not in chapters, but in long acts. There are four of them altogether. The idea of Transylvanian vampires is an old concept, but it’s carried into a fresher view that pokes fun at common troupes.
The addition of a mosquito as a POV character was interesting. I found that I liked her quite a bit, and not just because we share a name. She had such a humanized story and her inclusion made an opening for many of the more important events in the book. She’s great. For a mosquito. I wasn’t a fan of Dragos, not even as a teenage boy, but Bogdan grows to be rather loveable.
What takes away from it is that sometimes the narrative tried too hard to be funny. I have a drier sense of humor, so that might be part of it. Constant silly acronyms and funny names (not the Romanian or French ones, which abound for obvious reasons) aren’t a necessity to make for a good comedy and I do feel that worked as a hit-and-miss distraction from the story overall. The occasional confusing of names (mainly Dragos and Bogdan) and descriptions being largely replaced by dropping names of popular actors instead of giving them their own faces is a little bit of a letdown.
That said, I did enjoy the story, especially when the first act began to wind down and shift into the second.
Actual Rating: 3.5 Stars
An inspired satire of culture, heritage and popular trends. In the introduction we meet two young vampires, Dragos and his adoptive brother, Bogdan. From that point, the differences in the two, both personality-wise and morally are made and carried through (most) of the story. It does initially come off as a little confusing wince it’s set up not in chapters, but in long acts. There are four of them altogether. The idea of Transylvanian vampires is an old concept, but it’s carried into a fresher view that pokes fun at common troupes.
The addition of a mosquito as a POV character was interesting. I found that I liked her quite a bit, and not just because we share a name. She had such a humanized story and her inclusion made an opening for many of the more important events in the book. She’s great. For a mosquito. I wasn’t a fan of Dragos, not even as a teenage boy, but Bogdan grows to be rather loveable.
What takes away from it is that sometimes the narrative tried too hard to be funny. I have a drier sense of humor, so that might be part of it. Constant silly acronyms and funny names (not the Romanian or French ones, which abound for obvious reasons) aren’t a necessity to make for a good comedy and I do feel that worked as a hit-and-miss distraction from the story overall. The occasional confusing of names (mainly Dragos and Bogdan) and descriptions being largely replaced by dropping names of popular actors instead of giving them their own faces is a little bit of a letdown.
That said, I did enjoy the story, especially when the first act began to wind down and shift into the second.
January 16, 2018
This was totally unexpected. There were a lot of very silly things that added a strange charm to the story. The banter between the brothers was really amusing and the obsession with warts of course had me rolling. I mean really, what’s Valerie to do when she is stuck between two vampires with such sexy warts. I think the brothers aside, my favorite character was Rostea. Her internal monologue was brilliant.
I enjoyed the fun nature of the writing and look forward to more from this author.
I enjoyed the fun nature of the writing and look forward to more from this author.
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March 13, 2018Good Read
Enjoyed reading this short story, a different type of vampire novel. Look forward to reading more titles from this author.
Enjoyed reading this short story, a different type of vampire novel. Look forward to reading more titles from this author.
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