This week the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is doing a tour for Never Ceese by Sue Dent. It is notable that Sue is one of our CFBA members!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sue Dent was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi and currently resides in Ridgeland. When not writing, Sue designs websites and works with digital photograpy.
Sue loves to hear from her fans through her Website in fact, the push from eager readers has already set the ball rolling, and she's hard at work on Forever Richard, the sequel.
In Never Ceese, Sue sets out to prove that faith and fun can live happily in the same story, and that vampire/werewolf fantasy can have a spiritual message too.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Never Ceese takes religious fantasy to a new level, bringing an entirely new Light to a very dark side of fiction, doing a very admirable job to prove that vampire/werewolf fantasy does not have to be evil to be enjoyed.
The story starts with the classic tale of an English manor owned by Richard, the vampire who righteously is the bain of his neighbor's existence, what with the missing goats and all!
Then enters Cecelia, better known as Ceese, the young werewolf maiden who's arrived via invitation by Richard's aging companion, Penelope.
Ceese and Richard would prefer to tear each other apart, literally, but they are drawn together by their mutual love for Penelope. She is dying and has one request...that the two of them love one another.
This is the overall theme throughout Dent's interesting tale of two who were wronged but learn to work together. Meanwhile they are threatened by an evil stem cell researcher who wants the immortality and power that he thinks their blood will bring him!
Dent's characters do differ from the stock one's we're all accustomed to in a very important way. They are not mindless, brutal killers. Bloodthirsty, yes, but they are constantly resisting the urge to kill, and, thus, curse another human. Feeding on rodents, goats, virtually any warm-blooded animal helps to satiate the never ending thirst for blood, but how long will they be able to resist that most delicious morsel man?
There is a chance that their curses can actually be lifted if they can find the strength within to resist their selfish natures and act selflessly toward another. Will they succeed? That same basic choice lies before us all every day...
A vampire and a werewolf, one determined to, once again, be able to acknowledge what will get her to heaven, the other no so sure he can. A spiritual fantasy designed to spark the imagination, to speak to the heart as well as entertain.
The Never Ceese book link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1599580179
Sue Den't website: http://www.neverceese.com/
33 comments:
Yikes... me first? Great book!
http://dameigs.blogspot.com/2006/12/never-ceese-by-sue-dent.html
I'm linking here on my Wednesday post:
http://camys-loft.blogspot.com/
Camy
Up down under! Hanging out for a copy to review for these posts!!!
mine's up
I'm up!
Just posted on www.writer-lee.blogspot.com
:)Marci
Posted review and interview on the blog and myspace, posted CFBA and Dave's review on myspace last night, and we've posted on The Compendium, but check back, because Lauren will be posting hers soon, as well.
Couldn't bulletin from myspace this morning, because my computer crashed! Luckily, nothing important was lost.
Mines up at www.ProjectingA.blogspot.com
I'm up: http://invalslittleworld.blogspot.com/
Mine's up.
I've posted to Straitjacket Chiller's today. I'm also going to provide a link to my blog post on my profile at MySpace.
I've linked. And I'm a little bummed I haven't read it. My interview will post tomorrow.
Posted.
Done. Finally. LOL. I hate html.
Mine's Up! Bless you again for the code in the newsletter!!!
YAY! Lauren posted her review on The Compendium!. Come see what we three...er...see...? Say? What the hey!
Can anyone tell I'm teaching the poetry unit in school right now?
Mine's posted.
I'm up!
Here are some of my students' reviews. I'll be posting one more.
Another post here: http://invalslittleworld.blogspot.com/2006/12/blog-tour-never-ceese-day-2-and.html along with a book giveaway and some answers to specific questions I asked Sue.
Please promote my giveaway! Thanks :)
Mine are up.
Yep, yep, yep...I've posted on The Compendium, as well as my own blog, Wren Reviews. Come see!
Mine's up. www.danieliweaver.com/blog
Didn't get this one, so I just have the CFBA version. http://spoiledfortheordinary.blogspot.com/2006/12/blog-tour-never-ceese.html
My post is up!
Posted.
I posted one!
http://michellesgreatblogs.blogspot.com/
I posted one!
http://michellesgreatblogs.blogspot.com/
I posted one!
http://michellesgreatblogs.blogspot.com/
I posted one!
http://michellesgreatblogs.blogspot.com/
I'm up. I confess I copied your review verbatim(I'm soooooo ashamed!) I modified the links to Amazon and Sue's site, making them open in new windows or tabs with a handy bit of code I found that works in both Firefox and IE. Now I just have to figure out how to make the graphic work correctly in both.
Better late than never...it's up....argh.
Better late than never...it's up....argh.
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