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Title: Internet Message
Review: I've always hated knowing that the good guys are going to prevail, and that the bad guys always get what's coming. I rooted for the machines in the Terminator movies. So I was pleasantly surprised to find a twist on that old formula when I read Internet Message. Our heroine is not saved, as we suspect she will be. Lilly is the token innocent, virgin, reluctant victim, and we are sure she will transform into reluctant hero. Instead, to my surprise and delight, she transformed into a nasty blood sucking mistress, as powerful in her badness as she was shimmering in her goodness. These characters are fun to read, but what makes Internet Message stay with you is the unique spin Woods puts on it; the nice guy does NOT get the girl, the ultimate heroes are not who we think they will be, and there is no sentimentality sparing the lives and undeaths of our main characters. In vampire transformations, Woods left barely a soldier standing, and it was good, unclean fun.
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