Borrowed Flesh [Mass Market Paperback]

Sephera Giron (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 340 pages
• Publisher: Leisure Books (March 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0843952571
• ISBN-13: 978-0843952575
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,010,027 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.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Lacks focus and connection., March 14, 2004

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Chadwick H. Saxelid "Bookworm" (Concord, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Borrowed Flesh (Mass Market Paperback)

Vanessa is a witch with eternal life. Her battle scars, however, necessitate regular virgin sacrifices to keep her skin fresh and healthy. If she doesn't do this she starts to breakdown, literally. All is well, considering, until her quiet life as a tarot card reader/psychic counselor is disrupted by a rash of missing husbands. A friend of her latest sacrifice starts sniffing around as well. All this sounds like good thriller material, but it is wasted in a haze of poorly sketched characters and fuzzy narrative. I had a hard telling telling the wives apart - they all seemed alike, perhaps it was intentional on some artistic level, for Ashley (the sacrifice's on-the-prowl-and-searching-for-clues best friend) is fully developed. The story unfolds with dream logic, but this hampers any emotional connection with the events and don't get me started on the pages wasted focusing on one wife's dabbling with a New Age group and mulling over whether or not to drink her own urine (a meaningless subplot that goes nowhere). Events proceeding those in the novel are mentioned, making me think that this is a sequel or continuing 'series'. If it is, I have little interest in reading any others. A real disappointment.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Another piece of fiction, July 2, 2005

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Dan "Longsword" (USA, Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Borrowed Flesh (Mass Market Paperback)

The recipe for retaining a youthful appearance includes a steaming bath of virgin blood, bone, hair, and flesh with a dash of herbs, spices, and an animal sacrifice. The cost is nominal, your soul.

The premise of Borrowed Flesh is interesting and the plot is intricate. However, Giron fails to follow the various plots to a satisfying conclusion. Her prose is rich and multi-layered, but her characters' motivations are weak and sketchy, leaving too many questions unanswered. The climactic scene is rushed and leaves the reader unsatisfied. The idea that there is insufficient energy in the universe to support more than one immortal is ludicrous.

Borrowed Flesh takes an interesting and promising premise and turns it into a hurried mélange of impressions more like a fever dream, than a full-bodied horror classic. The bones are intact, but Giron needs to borrow more than flesh to make this story immortal.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A dissapointing novel, February 27, 2005

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ThePaperbackStash.com (FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Borrowed Flesh (Mass Market Paperback)

My first gripe is that the back cover blurb does NOT accurately describe what the books really about. The murdering of young girls, as said on the blurb, is actually not the focal point of the story. This in itself isn't a sin, though, and I usually never hold this against a book. The authors don't write them anyway, marketing does.

The plot is different in some ways, and I applaud the writer for this, but it just didn't hold any pizzazz. It was a bit formulaic, unexciting, and when the two 'baddies' came face to face, it was a weak battle without much spirit behind it.

The book read like a light read, instead of anything deep, and I had trouble taking much of it seriously. The character of Vanessa was stale and cardboardish, Ashleys' didn't make sense - inconsistencies were made on the personalities of the characters involved just to suit the plot and keep it moving in a convenient direction. A good thing the author DID do with Vanessa was give her multiple personalities, making an interesting internal conflict to read about.

The writing style is direct and to the point, although I felt some of the emphasis was overdone. For example, when Vanessa is always haunted by being alone, the point can be gotten and felt without it repeated every chapter. I give brownie points to the author for granting her characters with emotion, but it just didn’t seem leveled out to me.

While this book holds many flaws, it did keep me reading. I didn't want to quit out of boredom, so it didn't fail on all levels. Not a book I would recommend to most.