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Howling Legion Skinners 02
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Marcus Pelegrimas
speciesamused
, September 19, 2010
I am an avid reader and picky. I like to have something that is like no other. I get very tired of main stream authors pumping out book after book of lame fiction. Marcus Pelegrimas is an author that you never know what the next book will hold, but you can count on it being excellent and well worth your time. If you like a series that has realism mixed with other world do not miss this Skinners series. You will not be disappointed. Kim Harrison and Simon Green fans will be hooked. I do recommend you read the first in the series, Blood Blade (Skinners Book 1) so you can follow the story line. There are two main characters. Paige is a long time Skinner= (someone with the ability to see and deal with all the other world creatures). Cole is a man that specializes in creating video games, an expert in his field. Cole did not have much excitement in his life until he went on vacation and discovered that their where creatures on this planet that lived beside us, some in harmony, some meaning to harm us and some to rule the humans. Paige and Cole are people who get respect and are feared by the vamps, were's and humans (especially the police). People are being murdered in a way that Paige and Cole know the were's (werewolves)are responsible for. But why? They must travel to find the culprits. They must be prepared with their magic, potions made with blood of the beasts, we cannot see as humans. Cole is still in training as he is Paige's apprentice. He is coming along well. This will be a fight that is bloody, difficult, and at times almost impossible. It is hard to give all the details without spoilers. But this book is full of action and other world beings, I guarantee you will not want to set it down. Stray away from what you know. Teeth of Beasts (Skinners Book 3) is to be released on April 27th, 2010. I cannot wait. Marcus Pelegrimas is also an author who is a peoples author. Ask him a question and he will answer. Give him a chance, read his books. Let us give him the recognition he deserves. So hard to break through. Thank you and enjoy.
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Teeth of Beasts Skinners 03
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Marcus Pelegrimas
speciesamused
, September 19, 2010
Teeth of Beasts eats Twilight fans...So much more here I always hesitate at writing reviews because I am an avid reader not writer. That said, Marcus Pelegrimas is an excellent story teller. There is always something going on but not so much that you cannot keep the story in check and his words flow so you look forward to reading more. 400 pages!!! Yeah! This can be a stand alone story but I do recommend reading the other Skinners novels to make you feel like you know the characters better. Teeth of Beasts is the third novel in Mr Pelegrimas Skinners series. Skinners are an ancient small group of people all over the world. They have special abilities gained by studies of ancient magic and present day studies using parts and blood of creatures culled. Paige and Cole are the skinner/investigators, they have friends too. The Skinners are protectors in our world from beasts we do not know exist. Creatures like Full bloods, Half-breeds, Nymphs, (mind altering beauties), mongrels, shape shifters and Vampires. In Teeth of Beasts we have a pestilence that is effecting the human population turning them into Zombies with a viscus mud slimming out of them and it may be deadly, and who is kidnapping and murdering the Nymphs? Nymphs which have an essence that can be used in very powerful magic for those who practice it. If you are a Simon Green or Jim Butcher fan you will be hooked with Marcus Pelegrimas Skinners series. Enjoy.....
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Blood Blade Skinners 01
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Marcus Pelegrimas
speciesamused
, September 19, 2010
"Leave some alive" "the crazy man whispered. I am a long time reader on this earth. I started out with King and Koontz and have broadened my horizons with not so main stream as I find them much more of delightful change. Plus when you get my age you run out of books to read in the horror genre. We have some really great authors coming out lately and Mr Pelegrimas is one of them. This book is certainly not getting the praise it deserves. Blood Blade is packed with constant action and you will not want to put it down. It is not like anything else I have read. Unique in its excellence. There are creatures from other worlds thru out the story that live all around us.. But we cannot see them. But they see and abuse us. There is a small group of people called Skinners and they can see all these creatures and have different relationships some friend some foe. The Skinners are on a mission to keep this worlds people safe. They are few and the other world beings are many. The writing by Marcus Pelegrimas is excellent. There is so much to this story you must read Blood Blade (Skinners)
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Landslide
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Jayne A. Grant
speciesamused
, August 28, 2010
In the successful Silicon Valley, during the nineties right before the turn of the century when the worst was feared of the advent of the new millennium, the life of Jose Williams is chronicled. He is a working upper middle class man with a wife and a family. Everything seemed to be going good in his life until something from buried past begins to haunt him. Haunting his life in every aspect. In losing this job he ends up getting a promotion. A higher standing but more expectations. His only son, will he lose his life and from random incident? Will it break the family apart? His wife finds of his affairs and struggle through it. Temptation follows his every move even through death, then he alone has to face the final determining fate of the life of a once lucky man, though still some how he remains lucky, why and how does he do this. His luck returns to him or does it. Through gambling, affairs, trying his hardest at work in the struggle of both work and life he overcome even with his haunting returning past the now plays with his life and plays with his nerves, shaking his emotions, he alone faces the final judgment, yet he alone survives. But does he want to?
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