Reviewed by Colette
TITLE: Creature Feature 2
SERIES: Creature Feature
AUTHOR: Poppy Dennison & Rhys Ford
PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press
LENGTH: 214 pages
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Two Men. One Apocalypse.
Rise of the Revenants by Poppy Dennison
Vampyres are on the loose in Detroit, and novice hunter Taz Cohen is on the job. The mission seems simple: stop the vamps. But Taz knows nothing about the mythical creatures, so he’s in for the fight of his life. Then he meets insanely attractive construction worker Darren Foster, who jumps into the battle with both feet. Sparks and bullets fly as they struggle against the vampyre horde and their attraction to each other. Avoiding gruesome death from the undead might be easier than shielding their hearts from each other.
Legacy of Blood and Death by Rhys Ford
For Javi Navarro, Detroit will become another blood-splattered city in his rearview mirror after he puts its dead back into the ground. Expecting an easy hunting job, Javi instead finds a kiss of ancient vampyres on the hunt for a descendent of their long-dead creator.
Reclusive Ciarnan Mac Gerailt abandoned his family legacy of blood and death magic after it nearly destroyed him. Unfortunately, the Motor City can only be saved if Ciarnan resumes his dark arts and joins forces with Javi Navarro, the hunter who brought the vampyre apocalypse—and hope for the future—straight to Ciarnan’s front door
REVIEW:
TV ain’t got nothing on these two! Sure those 2 guys are hot and drive a cool looking car, but they don’t know anything when it comes to dealing with the real Supernatural; at least, in the opinion of Taz and Javi, the 2 real life hunters in this installment of Creature Feature.
About 100 years ago, during Prohibition, a death Mage by the name of Mac Gerailt set up shop in Detroit, kidnapping people and turning them into vampyres. Pierce Chapman, a life mage, went to Detroit to stop him. A battle ensued, Mac Gerailt was defeated, but neither Chapman nor Mac Gerailt were ever seen or heard from again. That is until some construction workers broke down a wall on an old speakeasy and unleashed hell.
In the first story, Rise of the Revenants by Poppy Dennison, Taz Cohen rolls into Detroit in his 2014 black Challenger to take on the vampyres that escaped from the speakeasy, he meets up with Javi Navarro another hunter sent deal with the creatures. Javi, an older hunter more experienced with vampyres explains the history of Chapman and Mac Gerailt and they figure out the vampyres split up and are looking for the descendants of the two mages, drawn to their blood. Taz takes on finding the life mage Chapman’s family.
Running a search on the family, who settled in Detroit after the mage disappeared, Taz finds John Chapman, a man who owns over 30 properties in the city. Armed with a list of addresses, Taz sets out to track him down and finds Darren….and a vampyre.
This was a really fun, scary, action packed story. I loved the humor and the chills and the heat between Taz and Darren was scorching!
In Legacy of Blood and Death by Rhys Ford, Javi sets out to find Mac Gerailt ’s descendants, following a lead from an informant he finds Ciarnan Mac Gerailt . Ciarnan, his dark faerie familiar Shaddock and Elric, his wolf-dog were not want Javi expected. Ciarnan turned his back on death magic after a summoning that went very very wrong, and secluded himself in an old theatre in the heart of Detroit.
Javi shows up as a vampyre is attacking a neighborhood child in Ciarnan’s garden – Ciarnan takes out the vamp and knocks Javi out in the process. When he comes to, he explains what happened with Ciarnan’s great grandfather and Pierce Chapman and why the vampyres are searching for him. After much debate, Ciarnan – who has very good reasons for not wanting to use magic to call the vampyres – agrees to help. Javi is intrigued and attracted to the mage, there is a strong pull between the two men, both lonely and hurting and desperately needing warmth and human contact.
This is the darker of the two stories, not surprising given it is about a death mage, but there are still flashes of humor and fun interspersed in the horror and gore: “I am a death mage specializing in demon summoning and flesh shaping, and you think I’m cute?”
Together both stories provide enough chills, thrills and hot romance to satisfy just about everybody!
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