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Tamara Thorne is a lifelong student of the paranormal, folklore, and shameless humor. She is the author of such supernatural thrillers as The Forgotten, Bad Things, Eternity, and next year's Thunder Road. She has also written horror novels, based in research but often slightly tongue-in-cheek, including Haunted, Moonfall, and The Sorority Trilogy. Thorne and her husband, Damien, spend their spare time hoping not to sleep in haunted hotel rooms and prowling other anomalous sites, hoping to be accosted by poltergeists, falls of frogs, or phantom jackalopes. Currently, she is working on a new novel about a southwest haunting and putting together a nonfiction book about ghosts, including stories from her own adventures. Her official website is www.tamarathorne.com.
The Sorority: Eve
At exclusive, isolated Greenbriar University, within the elite Gamma Eta Pi sorority, is a secret society known as the Fata Morgana. Its members are the most powerful women on campus—and the deadliest. For this is a sisterhood of evil, a centuries-old coven, and every girl who pledges herself to their wicked decadence does so for life…or death… An Initiation Into Terror Eve has no idea why she's drawn to the rambling, run-down sorority house at Greenbriar University. There's something compelling about the sultry president, Malory Thomas, and when Malory invites Eve to join the exclusive Fata Morgana, the blond, All-American beauty jumps at the chance to be part of this powerful circle. But behind the façade of female bonding lies something far more sinister—a dangerously secret world of dark magic, unimaginable sin, sexual depravity, and murder…a place where evil not only exists, it thrives…and the cost of membership may be Eve's very soul...
Tamara Thorne's Summer Reading List
Good Omens
by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
A second reading of Good Omens still yields tongue-in-cheek apocalyptic mayhem as the forces of Heaven and Hell get confused by morals and the child of Satan gets mixed up by evil nuns. An absolute delight, certainly a literary sibling of Kevin Smith's later-made saint and sinner-fest, film, Dogma.
American Gods
by Neil Gaiman
An outstanding thoughtful and witty romp through America. A Hero's Journey of a book that tells us how all the gods came to America with all the immigrants over the millenia, and how they're faring today. A real keeper. Intelligent, entertaining, deep and light, all at once, with prose to die for.
Up Country
by Nelson DeMille
DeMille is such a good writer that I don't care what topic he chooses, I'll read the book. So I haven't even read the back cover yet. With DeMille, you always get a read of epic proportions, intelligent and full of snappy dialogue. DeMille teaches you about things you never knew you were interested in, and you don't even realize you're learning --- the mark of a great author.
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
by Christopher Moore
Continuing my current interest in books that have fun with dieties, I picked up Lamb. The book opens with the child christ sitting on a stood with a lizard hanging out of his mouth. He's bringing it back to life. This is the story of the messiah's missing years, told by an apostle left out of today's bible. Quick and light yet very well researched and etched into accepted histories and/or myths of Jesus, the book is pure unadulterated Moore, which is always a very fine thing.
By the Light of the Moon
by Dean Koontz
Dean Koontz takes on mind-control conspiracies and the the relationship of two brothers. My November release, The Forgotten, was also about mind control conspiracies and the relationship of two brothers --- but I was half-way through Koontz's version before I even recognized it, it's told so differently. Koontz uses very real mind control techniques that are the flip-side of the techniques I wrote about, (she says, very relieved). Koontz is a brilliant writer who takes on shadowy government conspiracies with intense glee. Given a choice, I'll always choose Stephen King first because his characters are so riveting, but Koontz shines in the plot department.
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