The Birds and the Bees [Mass Market Paperback]

Sephera Giron (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Leisure Books (November 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0843950854
• ISBN-13: 978-0843950854
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,724,883 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Sèphera Girón has over fifteen published books under various names. Her main love is horror and most of her work embraces themes of occult,metaphysical, erotica, and suspense. She has also penned several erotic astrology romance novels for Ravenous Romance loosely based on her experiences as a tarot reader/astrologist/paranormal investigator, and witch.

Sèphera is professional tarot counsellor and you can have accurate readings with her by visiting one of her websites and clicking the "call me" button.

You may also enjoy watching her YOUTUBE videos where she reads from her own work.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Is This A Joke?, January 20, 2004

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William M Miller (Bronxville, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Birds and the Bees (Mass Market Paperback)

I think this might be my first 1-star review. It's probably 1 and a half, but I can't give it that. Okay, where do I begin? The back of the book makes it seem like an epic battle between birds and bees and the entire existence of mankind. Well, in this 340 page book, the first scene of violence only starts on page 175 and the real danger starts on page 250. So what happened for most of the book? A bunch of tedious character studies and random sexual encounters that make this book seem like a romance novel with a few dangerous moments thrown in for good measure. No atmosphere. No scares. Spelling and grammar errors aside, the writing was simple and flowed rather nicely, but Ms. Giron simply forgot to add in a plot. Characters doing nothing for 75% of the book isn't a story! Leisure Books usually has the cream of the crop in the horror literary world (Simon Clark, Tom Piccirilli, Richard Laymon, T.M. Wright, Jack Ketchum, etc.), so how in the world did Don D'Auria choose Ms. Giron to become a member? If you want a good laugh, pick up the book at the store and read pages 239 and 240. It is unbearably bad.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A bit off the target, February 18, 2004

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Jonathan Burgoine "bookseller" (Ottawa, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Birds and the Bees (Mass Market Paperback)

Okay, I really wanted to like this book a lot more than I did. I met the author, and she was one fabulous lady, and she signed this for me and everything. She was interesting, and more importantly, she was witty. I had high hopes.

Now, perhaps that's the problem - this is a Leisure Books Horror line novel, and methinks that the emphasis for this series is more of a gorey horror/suspense feel, sort of like watching an episode of 'the Twilight Zone,' but bloodier. But, and this is doubly unfortunate as I no longer have a long bus ride to work in the morning and evening, I nibbled at this book for almost two full weeks and beyond the heroine's name (Gabrielle), I don't remember much about her, apart from her ludicrous taste in men.

Basically, there are random bee attacks. Then bird attacks. And between these, you jump, hap-hazardly, between various characters and get snippits of their lives, pasts, remembrances, and current stresses. All in all, it gets very jumpy and confused, and you're not sure it'll wrap itself up into a single plot conclusion.

Well, it does all end in one place and event, but it made me blink a little in confusion and disbelief.

Still, the ideas behind the plot of this book were really quite interesting, it's just that the implementation seemed a bit... off. It's unfortunate, but I imagine if you like (for lack of a better term) schlock horror that this might be your thing. It wasn't mine.

'Nathan

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not just Nature amok, April 28, 2003

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Joshua Koppel (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Birds and the Bees (Mass Market Paperback)

There have been many tales of Nature striking back at man. This is and is not one of them. It uses some of the ideas from the genre but in ways that are totally new.

As we delve into the lives of various characters (in a Stephen King or Ray Bradbury fashion) we see occasional attacks and menacings by bees and birds. Eventually the plot lines tie together as we find out who is on what side in the battle of good and evil.

This is sort of a cross between a nature goes wild story and Stephen King's The Stand. Not a story for everyone as it does get a little weird, but a good and unpredictable tale.