Tainted Blood (Marquis de Sade) [Mass Market Paperback]

Mary Ann Mitchell (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 334 pages
• Publisher: Leisure Books (July 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0843950919
• ISBN-13: 978-0843950915
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #577,429 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Biography

Mary Ann Mitchell has published 11 books. Her first book, Drawn to the Grave, was a final nomination for the Bram Stoker Award and won the International Horror Guild Award. She held officer positions with the Horror Writers Association and with the Northern California Sisters in Crime organization. She is now making her books available as e-books.

As a child, Mary Ann Mitchell wrote short stories, essays, and poetry. When she was twelve she sent her short stories to the night editor of The Journal American, who encouraged her to send more. Her mother intercepted the letters and forbade her from writing. Seems some of the family's dark secrets were oozing onto Mary Ann's written pages. Her writing became secret and sporadic. Once she completed graduate school, she became a civil servant. Years later her husband asked her what her dream career would be. She quickly answered that she always wanted to be a novelist.

She began her writing career by taking writing classes at The University of California, Los Angeles and writing several short stories, which her husband encouraged her to submit for publication. Mary Ann Mitchell's short stories have been published in a number of magazines. The short story The Hyacinth Girl appeared in the anthology The Year's Best Horror Stories: XXI, edited by Karl Edward Wagner.

Before writing the Marquis de Sade series Mary Ann read many of Sade's works and a number of Sade biographies. She also read Marquis de Sade, Letters from Prison translated by Richard Seaver. This helped to form in her mind an image of the historical Sade.

She has always enjoyed crime novels and thrillers, especially the noir writers such as Jim Thompson and the brutal street novels of David Goines. Mary Ann has written a crime fiction novel of female vengeance titled Siren's Call.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars You can't judge a book by it's cover, February 4, 2005

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Bruma (TN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tainted Blood (Marquis de Sade) (Mass Market Paperback)

On the back of the book, there is a short synopsis of what this book is about. It waxes on about Marquis de Sade and his life. It mentions in two sentences about Sade's "journey leads him back to America, to a seemingly normal suburban house. But the family who lives there is far from normal." Guess what, 75% of the book is about this American family of vampires. What a collection of co-dependant, undead creatures !! The Sade character just peeks in and out of the story and we are left with the family of vampires who just can't get it together. I eventually got tired of the tedious storyline. I was dissapointed that the description wasn't really what the story was about. Other reviewers mentioned the short chapters were a nuisance. I agree.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars What A Calamity!, March 14, 2005

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Kelly Houser (United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tainted Blood (Marquis de Sade) (Mass Market Paperback)

I read Mitchell's "The Vampire de Sade" about a month ago. I wasn't blown away by the novel, but I decided that I would try one of the other books in the Marquis de Sade series. I wish I had not. Mitchell's work is an absolute train wreck. This novel was supposed to be about de Sade and a big battle with another vampire named Marie. Instead, 80% of the novel was about a family of vampires that Marie and de Sade pay a visit too. The characters were completely flat, there was basically no plot, the dialogue was atrocious, and it was once sad and tired cliche after another. I will not be reading anymore of Mitchell's work. I am a huge fan of vampire fiction, but I will not be reading this garbage just because it is part of that genre. I am really surprised that "Tainted Blood" received such a high rating. I am horribly disappointed and I would not recommend Mitchell's works to anyone.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ONE OF MITCHELL'S BEST- IF NOT T.H.E. BEST!!!, September 8, 2003

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Joana Madrid (King City, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tainted Blood (Marquis de Sade) (Mass Market Paperback)

I love 'Tainted Blood' by Mary Ann Mitchell! It's has a good stoy, & a great ending! I think the only partial downside in the book is the French that Sade adds in now & then b/c he doesn't remember how to say it in English... *bah!* All-in-All the story has all the good elements - Vampires, Blood, Comedy, Action & Sex. All that get combined in yet another blood~sucking Sade lifestyle & keeps the pages turning until you reach the end - & still leave you thirsty for more!