Hellren

An unofficial group of folks who follow the vampire warriors of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

Character Development

Intro 0:0 – 0:38
Podcast 0:39 – 36:37
Outro 36:38 – 38:10

Discussion of the major characters and what we have learned about them in the first 100 pages (and it’s a lot!).

Chapters 9 and 10

Discussion of several new books:

“Vampire Empire”, Susan and Clay Griffith’s upcoming Trilogy

“Elsewhere” by Gabrielle Zevin

“Before I Fall” by Lauren Oliver

“Pride, Prejudice and Zombies” and all the other books by Seth Grahame-Smith can be found here.

Wikipedia entry on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” TV Series

Mr. X begins to develop his strategy for attacking the Brotherhood. Wrath and Beth share tender moments.

Time 0:00 – 11:43

Thanks to listener Mayra from San Diego who poses the question under discussion: Should the Brotherhood books be in the “Romance” section at the bookstore? Or is there a better classification?

Brenda Joyce’s Deadly Series can be found here
Hush, Hush can be found here (and I think they should be nominated for best cover!)
Shiver can be found here (note: Shiver has been optioned for a movie)

Discussion of Chapters 7 and 8.

Time 0:00 – 35:54
We learn more about the Lessening Society and the evil Mr. X. Wrath and Beth have their second encounter which, happily, turns out much better than the first one! All part of Dark Lover, the first book in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series.

A short conversation concerning “Twi-Rock” and a trivia contest. The trivia question revolves around Rehvenge and a “personal detail” of his (G rated!). The first person to email the answer to email@hellren.com will win a paperback version of “Lover Avenged”. Good luck!

The Twi-rocker we mention is Bella Rocks! and their MySpace page can be found here. You will also find them on iTunes which is where I purchased “What’s up with These Forks Boys?”.

Sorry my voice is so deep introducing the triva quiz – it’s not my Katharine Hepburn imitation, like most of the people in New York this time of year, I have a cold.

Hellren Podcast Episode #4

Discussion of Chapters 5 and 6.
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Part One (Time 0:00 – 21:34)
For the first half of the podcast, we discuss our impressions of Chapters 5 and 6 of Dark Lover, the first book in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series.

Break Music (21:35 – 21:56)

Part Two (Time 21:57 – 40:09)

What are your Top Ten vampire movies? We discuss a list found recently in a Twilight Fan Mag.

Among others we talked about
Buffy
Lost Boys
Nosferatu
Underworld
Let the Right One In
Love at First Bite
Once Bitten
and
Blade

and let’s not forget
Van Helsing
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Twilight
30 Days of Nights
Lifeforce
Nick Knight
Interview with a Vampire

Any that we missed?

Hellren Podcast Episode #3
We are now on iTunes! Search in the podcast section for Hellren while we figure out how to add a feed button.

Part One (Time 0 – 18:05)
For the first half of the podcast, we discuss Chapter 4 of Dark Lover, the first book in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series.

Carolyn got a new toy! A “playaway” device of the entire novel. You can find these at Playaway. The narrator Jim Frangione is fabulous. You can get the audio book here

We discuss the characters of all the Brothers. You can read the Warden’s own descriptions here.

Break Music (time 32:25- 32:48)

Part Two (Time 18:29 to 48:54)
In the second half we delve into a discussion of some of the cultural icons of vampire lore. We took this slide show from the Chicago Tribune as a jumping off point.

Here’s the movie Rebecca mentions – From Dusk till Dawn by Quentin Tarantino

The Karen Moning website for the Fever series.

The Night Watch Series by Serei Lukyanenko.

Jim Butcher, the Dresden Files, can be found at Amazon.

The House of Night novelsby PC Cast and Kristin Cast.

Melissa De La Cruz, Blue Blood Series.

What’s your favorite vampire book? Email us!

Barnabas Collins arrives at Collingwood!

Found it YouTube so no copyright infringement intended, yada yada. From the 1970 movie “Dark Shadows”. Filmed at Lyndhurst which is practically in my backyard.

Hellren Podcast Episode #2
(Time 0 – 18:05)
Carolyn and Rebecca are once again your co-host for today’s discussion. For the first half of the podcast, we discuss Chapters 2 and 3 of Dark Lover, the first book in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series.

Break Music (time 18:05 – 18:29)

(Time 18:29 to 44:33)
In the second half we delve into some fan fun. Did you know there is a BDB singles Meetup group in Elyria, Ohio? And of course, there are the official fan sites at Yahoo and on the JR Ward website. One “unofficial” chat site is at The Phade.

How about some Youtube video eye candy? First, the Lover Avenged cover model Paul Marron has a fun video at Behind the Scenes: Undergear. I love the bit where the makeup artist is shading in the definition in his abs!!

Then BDB fans DarkSwan01 and HunterInShadow give us their take on their “ideal” BDB man. (Wentworth Miller as Z? YES!).

Find DarkSwan01 vid’s at Black Dagger Brotherhood Video and HunterinShadow at Black Dagger Brotherhood – Hellrens. OK, so we play a little good cop/bad cop but whether we agree or disagree we had so much fun with these and hope you will enjoy them as well!!

Please drop us a line on who YOU would cast as your perfect BDB man!

The Hellren Podcast Episode One!

(Time 0 – 15:30) Carolyn and Rebecca are your co-hosts for today’s discussion of JR Ward’s book, Dark Lover, Chapter 1. The first book of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. An in-depth chat about who we meet and our first impressions.

Break Music (Time 15:30 – 15:50)

(Time 15:50 – 27:40) What can we read while we wait for the next installment?  A chat of recent favorites: The Fever Series by Karen Marie Moning, The Witching Hour by Anne Rice, Wicked Lovely & Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr

Music by Mykle Anthony, Trifonic and Code. Links to their sites, CCMixter.org and JR Ward’s Amazon page are all at left.

Many thanks to Josh, Lynn and Eileen of The Bite Club, another Vampire podcast, for their help with the geek end of this podcast. Visit their site at The Bite Club.

Other Miscellany:
NY Times article about vampires here
True Blood Website here
Charlaine Harris and the Sookie Stackhouse novels here
Lover Avenged cover model Paul Marron’s website here