Blurb Blitz Blog Tour: Stop #10

My blurb blitz blog tour for my vampire fantasy novel, Drasmyr, continues today. Every day until July 19th, I’ll be visiting a variety of blogs across the Internet where promotional material for my book will be posted consisting of a blurb and an excerpt, or so. At the end of the tour, one of the commenters on the tour (the tour sites, NOT AToastToDragons) will win a prize. Today we have: Loose the Hounds (http://www.courtneyfarrell.com/) Please check them out and show them your support.

 

And check out the sponsor of the tour: http://www.goddessfish.com/.

Confusion Regarding Today’s Tour Stop

Today was supposed to be stop 10 in my Blurb Blitz Blog Tour. As of yet, the post hasn’t been put up on the hosting site. I’m waiting to find out what the issue is. It will be posted the moment it becomes available.

Blurb Blitz Blog Tour: Stop #9

My blurb blitz blog tour for my vampire fantasy novel, Drasmyr, continues today. Every day until July 19th, I’ll be visiting a variety of blogs across the Internet where promotional material for my book will be posted consisting of a blurb and an excerpt, or so. At the end of the tour, one of the commenters on the tour (the tour sites, NOT AToastToDragons) will win a prize. Today we have: My Odd Little World (http://nancyg1950.blogspot.com/) Please check them out and show them your support.

 

And check out the sponsor of the tour: http://www.goddessfish.com/.

Movie Review: Star Trek: Into Darkness

I’ve been wanting to see this movie for quite some time, but I kept putting it off. I’m sorry I did. It was a great movie. It continues the reboot of the “Star Trek” series of movies. We have the original cast of characters being played by different actors. These include: Chris Pine (Captain James T. Kirk), Zachary Quinto (Science Officer Spock), Zoe Saldana (Communications Officer Uhura), Karl Urban (Dr. McCoy a.k.a. “Bones”), and Benedict Cumberbatch (Khan). It’s basically a reboot (in a very loose roundabout way) of either “Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan” or the original series episode “Space Seed.” Only because it involves Khan and the 72 other superhumans of the Botany Bay crew.

 

The story begins on a distant planet where Kirk steels a valuable artifact from a primitive culture in a ploy to get them away from an erupting volcano so Spock can set off a device to neutralize the volcano. Things get hairy, Kirk is forced to violate the Prime Directive a couple of times, and Spock files his own report detailing that. That sets up the tension between Kirk and Spock (and also Spock and Uhura) throughout the movie. From there, they return to Earth, whereupon they learn of a terrorist whose name escapes me (It is really Khan, but he’s going by another name). They determine that Khan has fled to the Klingon home world of Kronos. So, the Enterprise is sent in pursuit armed with special photon torpedoes. Their orders are to kill Khan from a distance. But Kirk leads a landing party to capture him. After single-handedly wiping out most of a Klingon patrol, Khan surrenders. And from there, things get really dicey.

 

Strengths: There were a lot. The acting was good. The special effects were good. The story was good. And the character conflicts and crises were believable. There was only one logical flaw that I can think of in the movie, and that was a pretty minor one. Weaknesses: well, I think the sexualization of Kirk was a little overdone—he was always kind of like that, but they were more discreet in earlier films and the series (of course, that’s some forty years ago or so—oh well). Also, there was that logical flaw where transporters worked while the shields were up in one scene, and then not in another (Or did they lower the shields? I don’t remember, now).

 

Anyway, I’ll give “Star Trek: Into Darkness” four and a half stars out of five).

Blurb Blitz Blog Tour: Stop #8

My blurb blitz blog tour for my vampire fantasy novel, Drasmyr, continues today. Every day until July 19th, I’ll be visiting a variety of blogs across the Internet where promotional material for my book will be posted consisting of a blurb and an excerpt, or so. At the end of the tour, one of the commenters on the tour (the tour sites, NOT AToastToDragons) will win a prize. Today we have: Danita Minnis (http://danitaminnis.danitaminnis.com/)Please check them out and show them your support.

 

And check out the sponsor of the tour: http://www.goddessfish.com/.