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GRRRRRRREAT!!!!, 15 July 2010

I bought this book at Heathrow Airport and it kept me completely engrossed all the way from London to Montreal. Although I'm not really what you'd call a fan of the Horror genre I'd read Queen Victoria Demon Hunter and had really enjoyed it and this is by the same author.

I suppose you'd call it a "Historical Horror" and as you might expect it focuses on the life of Henry VIII with Demons and Werewolves as a backdrop and explores the battle between "good" and "evil" and the blurry (or should that be `furry') bits in between.
It's exciting, horrific and very funny rollicking along at a terrific pace. Peppered with "hat-tips" to real historical events, it cleverly… Read more

Not great, 16 May 2010

Handy for getting to red wine stains areas in unreachable areas of decanters but will still leave you with water marks, disappointing.

Fantastic page turner, 13 Oct 2009

I bought this book on the day it came out simply because I liked the cover, started reading it and couldn't put it down - I guess you'd call it a "mash-up" of the zombie / horror and historical genres. It's set in the reign of Queen Victoria and Demons and Zombies are secretly calling the political shots in the upper echelons of Victorian society - who's gonna stop `em - you guessed it, only the Monarch herself? This sounds a bit bonkers but it works brilliantly, Moorat manages to combine extreme tension with laugh out loud humour and completely nails the sense of period without ever sounding stuffy, in fact if anything the humour has many modern resonances. It's peppered throughout with… Read more