Necroscope Fever

Its Robert Ludlum meets Anne Rice, or Micheal Crichton meets Laurell Hamilton. But really, Brian Lumley wrote his Necroscope series back in the 80s. Hell, I wasn't even born yet when he wrote his first Necroscope series.

Here is book two of his Necroscope series. It tells about the origin of Thibor Ferency, the vampire who lured Boris Dragosani in book 1. If we have read the 1st book we know that both has died and that our hero, Harry Keogh (whats with the name Harry anyway? There is Harry Potter, Harry Dresdan o.0).

In this book, we also found out that aside from Dragosani, Thibor manage to place a part of his self to a certain baby. It goes like this, one night a couple came tumbling down his hills. Man died for Thibor has drank his blood through his wounds. The girl survive but Thibor grope her with his vampire tentacles.(talk about tentacle hentai lol) But this book ain't one of those porny paranormal books i usually read.

Anyway, while the 1st book is like Russian E-branch vs. British E-branch, this time the two heads of both organization works together in able to annihilate the vampire horde. Well at least what remains of it. In Lumley's Necroscope series, his vampires are not like Rice nor Hamilton's vampires. His vampires has tentacles and parasitic. The way his vampires pro-create is to plant a part of themselves into their victim and slowly that part will grow inside them and become one of the human. The human is called the host. The vampire part will consume the human mind thus creating one mind. But for Wampyre, they can only make a true wampyre once in their life time. They produce a seed that they plant into their chosen human host to be their son or daughter. Also, they are like starfishes that when you cut them up, the pieces will grow into something else until they can find a host. (talk about go forth and mulitply).

But all well that ends well, they manage to destroy both Thibor's remains in his graveyard by blasting the crucified hills. That is how the wampyre could be killed. A stake through the heart, Cut of its head and burn everything down to crisp.

Chains

Three girls have a dark past left behind just before they went for college. 15 years later, these girls still have the nightmare of the night that scared them for life.

Renee, prom queen, the perfect girl, a family which is more concern about there society preserve them. Lacey, the tall blond girl who is no closer then a bimbo became a professional photographer. Then there's the famous Sheera, who is a bestseller author.

Although the book is divided into three books focusing on each women but  the book only tells one story in the perspective of these 3 female character.

I have to admit, the story line is a cliche. How many books and movies are out there with stories that started when they were in senior high and had an unfortunate event and then coming after a couple of years back to the very place the event took place. There was king's It novel, and there was Valentine movie.

Honestly, i bought the book coz i miss reading porny books. The story about Reene was quite interesting... coz she was into bdsm but not entirely into the lifestyle. That is about the more interesting sex scene of the book. The other scene is just normal sex.

I talk to dead people

I have came across this book 2yrs ago when i was searching for good paranormal books. Now i could say, aside from Anne Rice's pretty vampires and Laurel K Hamilton's gorgeous sexy vampires, Brian Lumley's vampires are a different kind of breed. Now, we all heard about what necromancer can do, they control dead people, raise dead people and ask them of thier secrets. With Lumley's book, necromancers are a disgusting lot. They literally dissect people, learn their secrets through their guts and brain. The Necroscope is more humane. They simply talk to dead people and the dead talk to him. They teach him things that they have learned through their dead life.

No on to the book. The book started when the British E-branch head dead of a heart attack which later on we know that it was not a natural cause of heart attack. You might be asking what E-branch means. The Russians call it ESPionage, with the emphasis of ESP. Its a government branch of the British, Russian, American and Chinese branch that trains people with pyschic abilities. Its like the X-men, but with more closer to truth abilities based on paranormal powers. Along the way, an age old vampire is caught between the "war" or rivalry of the British and Russian E-branches.

Somehow the book doesn't appeal to me much but I do want to buy its series though. Necroscope is like Robert Ludlum meets Laurel Hamilton meets Neil Gaiman. Also as i was reading along the way, i could not help but think that the plot of the book is somewhat more like the t.v. series HEROES. Secret organization who has supernatural powers. A person with an ability to see the future and a person who could travel time. But instead of save the cheerleader save the world, its kill the ambitious right hand russian of E-branch and save the world.

FYI: Necroscope was written and published in the 1980s. And i'm sure i would be expecting another "twilight" fever on this. People in hollywood is planning to make a movie with Necroscope. If they play there cards well and would emphasize with the love story of Harry and Brenda, choose the right actors (oh i hope they won't get that annoying sparkling vampire) they could make it a blockbuster hit. C'mon guys we all know that unknown books get to be famous if they are turned into movies.