by Nancy Mathews In the original Tanya Huff novels Henry Fitzroy was a writer of romance novels. In the television series he’s a graphic novel artist. In the kingdom of geek the graphic novel artist is a god. It’s also far, far sexier than a romance novelist. This also lends itself far better to the [...]

by Nancy Mathews This episode of Blood Ties sort of epitomizes everything I love and loathe about the show. On the one hand we saw the growing bond between Vicki and Henry. Their care and concern for each other has grown since the first episode. On the other hand the plot was so cobbled together [...]

By Nancy Mathews At some point in a vampire’s life they must reflect on the one who made them. Typically these days our hot boy vamps have been sired by equally hot girl vamps in days gone by. Sadly, the boys seem to hold onto their humanity better than the girls, so inevitably they are [...]

By Nancy Mathews ‘Tis the season to have bugs in supernatural shows it would seem. A couple of weeks ago we saw bugs as killers on Reaper. This week they’ve infested our favorite vampire detective show (it’s still amazing to me that there are actually two vampire detective shows on this season). Related Stuff:

By Nancy Matthews I’ve seen the Groundhog Day plot done so many times I sometimes feel I’m reliving the same day over and over. In today’s version it’s Vicki who’s reliving her day, over and over again. Related Stuff:

By Nancy Mathews I’ve read the first two books in the Vicki Nelson series by Tanya Huff and enjoyed them a great deal. I’m particularly happy when the characters in the television show behave more like the characters in the books. The writer of this episode most definitely read at least one of the books; [...]