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Apocalypse Pretty Soon!

The portents are lining up for the biggest supernatural showdown of all time and—as if the Big Easy didn't have enough problems with another hurricane on the way—New Orleans is due to be the epicenter. Or, more precisely, the storm is vectoring in on half-vampire (but fresh-blood-eschewing) Chris Cs�jthe and his rag-tag coterie of outcast monsters. It seems Cs�jthe's epic mating with a werewolf lover has produced a child who holds the destiny of several worlds in the balance. And everyone who is anyone—vampire lord, were-pack leader, and the odd sea monster god and immortal elven princess—wants to twist this fabled progeny to his or her own power-hungry purposes.

The latest thrill-packed, wisecracking entry in the popular "Halflife Chronicles" by witty (and nitty-gritty) goth master, Wm. Mark Simmons!

"[O]ne of those rare novels that combine levity and the supernatural in just the right balance."
—Chronicle on Wm. Mark Simmons' Habeas Corpses.

Published 6/1/2007

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1. Rodney on 6/3/2010, said:

interesting story!
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2. Robert on 1/29/2009, said:

For the most part I have enjoyed this series, but I get irritated with when an author seems to write himself into a corner and then magic happens and the plot jumps back 4 steps. This kind of discontinuity comes across as a cheap get out of jail free card.
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3. Mike on 2/13/2008, said:

A bit too much angst with too little humor. I enjoyed the prose and understand that this series has always been a bit dark, but this was darker than I expected or cared for.
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4. Nikhil on 10/27/2007, said:

Like a lot of others, I'm not a big fan of the ending. Seemed to pat. Seemed to deus ex machina. I can understand why. As Simmons himself said on his website, the unfortunate timing of Katrina coming when it did kind of changed things for him. I understand and respect that. But it took away from the story. I can only wish that he'd written it the way it was meant to. It's still not a bad book and certainly hasn't turned me off from reading any additional installments. But whereas every other book enriched the universe, the plots, and the characters he was building, this seems to take away from it. His coverage of various hindu subjects was kinda 'umm'. Not wrong, but lacking in depth. But that's a quibble I figure 99.9% of his readers won't have.
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5. Marcus on 9/7/2007, said:

Whilst the first two thirds of the book was very good, I found the last third lacking. It felt like the author had run out of time or enthusiasm at the end. The mumbo jumbo psycho babble solution is very dissapointing. It is such a pity as the rest of the series is consistently of a much higher quality.
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6. Robert on 7/15/2007, said:

While I can see why people have said that the end is less than stellar, I disagree. It is self-consistent, as well as consistent with the character of the protagonist. The fact that the author managed to salvage most of the promise of this story after being mugged by reality is quite impressive. Had Katrina not happened with all the mental baggage it brought, this would have been a stunning story. I look forward to the next one... assuming it doesn't manage to fortell any additional disasters.
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7. Stephen on 6/8/2007, said:

A bit weaker than the others in the series and the author seems to be suffering a bit from the urge to one up himself. That being said, it's still enjoyable, though I found that the most implausible thing in the whole book was that the hero, American and English lit freak that he is, was somehow totally unfamiliar with H.P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu mythos.
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8. Bjorn on 5/28/2007, said:

I really enjoyed the first parts of this series, but the author now seems to be looking for more and more absurd and convoluted plots. Yes I know that vampires etc are absurd in themselves 8-), but the idea must be to have a kind of alternative internal logic, which unfortunately is more missing here than in the other in the series
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9. Greg on 5/25/2007, said:

I think that the end pretty much killed the book. I was having fun reading it then all the sudden it seemed to get really depressing. The end felt tacked on like he was heading toward a epic story then stopped got bored and threw the ending togather. Katrina sucked on a level most people will never get. But the south is about life. We take the storms as they come sometimes they take away alot but we get up clean up what we can and rebuild what we can and get back to living. Hopefully the next book will bring our hero back to that reality and on with the work of cleaning up the mess he left at the end of this one. Greg
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10. robert on 5/20/2007, said:

**1st half**This book is a little more long winded than the others, but so far it seems like a really good book.**1st half** That was what I posted after the first half of the book was released. Now after I finished the complete book, I am forced to give it a very bad review. It does not live up to the previous titles in the series. This book is funny and engaging in the first half, but sad and depressing in the second. The ending was anticlimactic and an all around let down. While some books and movies can be good with a bad ending, this is nor one of those. Sorry William Mark Simmons, you ruined the book by trying to please people about Katrina.
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