I’m thrilled to be taking part in the blog tour for Land Of The Dead by Steven Hopstaken and Melissa Prusi. Thanks to Random Things Tours and Flame Tree Press for the copy of the book to take part.
Bram Stoker and Oscar Wilde have returned to their lives in London after their adventures in the American West. Bram is managing a theatre and Oscar is rising to fame and planning his upcoming wedding when they are once again called upon to battle supernatural evil.
Victor Mueller needs Bram’s unusual blood for his mad quest to bring his dead wife back to life, and he’ll resort to kidnapping to get it. Meanwhile, a young medium named Lorna Bow runs fake séances in London under the thumb of an abusive uncle. When her mother Endora returns, Lorna learns the truth: they come from a long line of witches, and soon Endora has awakened Lorna’s dormant powers.
When the scientist and the witches combine forces, all Hell breaks loose. Long-dead souls find themselves back in the land of the living, and some of them have scores to settle with our heroes.
Bram and Oscar must team up with Cora Chase to protect all they hold dear. Only a mission into the Land of the Dead can stop Mueller and Endora from bringing back more souls.In an adventure that spans continents – and even other worlds – they confront old enemies and unknown dangers. Teaming up with old friends Teddy Roosevelt and Richard Burton and new allies like Arthur Conan Doyle and Nicola Tesla, they too must harness both science and magic to protect our world from intruders from the Land of the Dead.
This is the third book in this series but I had no problems reading it without having read the others. A book that has Bram Stoker and Oscar Wilde together sounds like my kind of read. In order to defeat the forces of evil they have to join forces, interesting? Well I thought so.
Again, a Flame Tree Press published book, I have loved every book I have had the pleasure to read from them. An Urban historical Fantasy with vampires, magic, tons of action and we even have a bit of Frankenstein stuff going on! If there was ever a book that was going to capture my imagination, this is one of them.
The story is told from multiple points of view throughout. The two authors have used letters and journal entries to tell the story. I thought this made it even more interesting and worked really well with the various characters and the multiple plot threads running throughout.
I loved how well developed the characters of Bram Stoker and Oscar Wilde are, in fact all of the characters just felt like they could have been flesh and blood in front of me. I almost felt starstruck as Stoker and Wilde team up with people such as Richard Burton, Tesla and even Arthur Conan Doyle. They need them to help close the spirit gates to the Land of the Dead.
They don’t just need the icons from the past, they also need magic and that comes from a young witch, Lorna. She has only just found out she is a witch with magic. Her mother, a woman Lorna thought was dead, returned to her and unleashed the power of Lorna’s magic. Lorna tugged on my heartstrings with her emotional story, I felt for her, that’s the maternal side of me coming out. The mission is not an easy one for her and its all new too.
A historical urban fantasy that,for me blends the genres together in such an expert way that this book became an enthralling read for me. Any reader who loves historical fiction or even urban fantasies with a bit of everything should enjoy this well written book
Author Bio
Steven Hopstaken and Melissa Prusi were both born and raised in Michigan and met in a screenwriting class in college, where they bonded overa mutual love of
science fiction. They live in St. Louis Park, Minnesota,and have sold two screenplays. This is their first novel.
They met in a college screenwriting class and married three years later. They spenta brief time in Los Angeles, where they both worked for Warner Bros. television,and sold two screenplays. They eventually ended up in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where they love the arts scene but dread the winters.
They’ve indulged their fascination with Bram Stokerand Oscar Wilde through trips to Dublin and London to research their lives and visit sites mentioned in Stoker’s Wilde.
They live in St. Louis Park, Minnesota with their two cats. If they’re not writing, you can usually find them ata movie, local theater production, improv show or pub quiz.
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