Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Robert Carnegie Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: "Bless your Heart" by Lindy Ryan Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 04:20:28 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 05:20:28 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="0c91c4f43310fffde6e5d11dd5e24580"; logging-data="1977060"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19x2hfQuU2qVw1tZ90VRJinaitIe0nPHDI=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:eMO9hGnKES111bTbk9ETIDXpq9A= Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2247 On 20/10/2024 05:02, Bobbie Sellers wrote: >  "Bless your Heart" by Lindy Ryan is the book. > >     From, here on i am speaking of the Universe of the book > which is a prize winner. > >     Vampires, Zombies, and Ghouls are the myths but Strigoi are > the reality behind the myths.  In a small town there is a funeral > home run by the Evans Women. Among the normal dead they put > down the restless dead, invariably hungry for life and they > tear it from the bodies of the still living and spread the curse. > >     This is the tale of the latest outbreak in a small West Texas > town and the latest of the Evans women Luna, who is very special.. > We also have the tangled loves of the Evans women and the > men who fruitlessly love them. > >      Nothing better to read and would make a great manga, > movie or anime. >     A fast read in a slim hardcover, $28.00 USA from Minotaur > books. >     bliss Thank you. To be clear, is "Nothing better to read" an endorsement, or is it a complaint? The English language is so confusing. I hear that the expression "Bless your heart" itself is liable to mean "Drop dead". Fittingly so, in this case.