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Nicholas Grabowsky Reviewed Conceiving Evil check it out

 

  

Conceiving Evil by Kathy Lynn Blaylock (2006 Publish America.) Read more about the author and the novel  here.


There seems to be many sides to author Kathy Blaylock, a plethora of writing styles and genre skipping.....I mean, take for example Mel's Journal: The Journey Home or Along Life's Winding Roads, and take in particular The Adventures of Buddy Fairy and Friends (where Buddy Fairy and Nay-Nay Rabbit embark on an adventure to catch the smallest fairy in Fairyland: the Purple Moonshine Butterfly) and you must ask yourself, "how can a writer possibly jump from penning a book about Nay-Nay Rabbit and into the sick and twisted realms of gut-bursting violence and explicit grisly and obscenely sexual depravity such as what is found in Conceiving Evil?"
Maybe a few swigs of Purple Moonshine are responsible.

Actually, I think there's more truth to the notion that versatility as a writer shows off talent. Besides, take a look at Roald Dahl, who did some damn good horror stuff as well as James & the Giant Peach and the two Willy Wonka books. I know as well as anyone, there are many facets and complications frolicking about between the lines of inspiration and imagination. There are many reasons why a writer is driven to write in one direction or another, but I can tell you, in the case of Kathy Lynn Blaylock, and with the work of supernatural horror I'm reviewing, none of them matter because it works, bottom line.

Conceiving Evil basically takes your average concept/sub genre of devil-impregnating-woman-for-a-birth-into-this-wor ld-with-the-intent-to-destroy-it Anti-Christ-esque/Demon Seed premise and brings flair and original concepts to the table, along with an avalanche of enough mayhem and gore to satisfy the sickest (literarily speaking) among us. The writing itself is unseasoned, but the tale itself along with its crisp characters and plot devices is more than enough to compensate for any shortcomings Blaylock has in any lack of poetic flow and vivid description where further practice promises to make more perfect her technique. She gets the job done, which is what matters. Venturing further down this road of darker fiction, this author, with Conceiving Evil, demands our attention and this gruesome and entertaining entry is a damn good start for a boisterous voice in horror fiction in works to come.
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Mel's Journal: The Journey Home

http://www.manicreaders.com/index.cfm?disp=bookDetail&bookid=2110

Review from Manic Readers

Title Mel's Journal: The Journey Home ISBN

Author Kathy Blaylock

Page Count 99

Publisher Forbidden Publications

Price

Category Contemporary

Rating 5 stars

Release Date December 1, 2006

Sensuality Rating sweet

Buy It www.forbiddenpublications.com

Review: 

Mel’s Journal: The Journey Home is an intense compelling read. You feel as if you get to know all the characters involved, crying with them as they try to cope with everything life has dealt them. Mel and Jenny were clearly meant for each other but they both had to realize that. A true romance from beginning to end, Mel’s Journal: The Journey Home is not to be missed. Kathy Blaylock has written of something we all want - love that is total and unconditional.

Teaser:

Upon the death of her parents, a young woman finds her father’s journal and decides to share it. Her father, Melvin Archer, was 12 years old when he met Jenny Perkins. They became fast friends and did everything together, including playing the games of spying and adventure, which Jenny thrived on. These games did cause some problems but despite Mel’s parents’ efforts, the two continued to be inseparable. As they grew older, their circle enlarged to include two more friends, Skylar Madison and Chad Carrington. When Skylar turns up pregnant, Chad and she decide to elope, but the night they planned to leave, Skylar is murdered and Chad arrested. Unable to allow their friend to take the fall for a crime he did not commit, Jenny and Mel did the necessary work to get him cleared but not without a price. This sad tragedy affected them both deeply, causing Jenny to leave town to study at college while Mel stayed behind. Their path to happiness continued to be fraught with tragedy and danger. Leading them both to believe that happiness may elude them for ever.

STAR RATINGS:

5 stars- very rare, extraordinary read

4 stars- a keeper

3 stars- good read

2 stars- has several problems

1 stars- very poor read

SENSUALITY RATINGS:

Sweet = pg romance without sexual scenes

Sensuous = romance with traditional non graphic sexual scenes

Sultry = romance with graphic sexual scenes

Sizzling = romance with graphic non-traditional sexual scenes i.e. bondage, ménage, m/m, f/f ect.