The newsletter will land in your inbox on a Friday and bring you the highlights of everything we've written about Weatherfield that week. It will include the latest action both on and off the cobbles, what you thought about the soap's top storylines and what the stars are up to away from the set. Plus much more! I was super surprised when almost immediately I fell in love with this book. Maybe my favourite "vampire " novel since buehlman's the lesser dead. Speaking about this once in a life time experience, Head of Continuing Drama John Whiston said: 'What fan of Coronation Street hasn't had a dream where you find yourself transported into the show itself, wandering around the houses of your best loved characters.' The brothers depicted, lone vamps called Jesse and Edgar, were my favorites/ Edgar is mentally handicapped, never chose to be a vamp, and has a really hard time with the "nomad in the dark" lifestyle they live by necessity. When Jesse meets a woman he falls in...not love, but nostalgia with, my sympathy for him grew and grew. Life that feels unbearable can be lived because it won't always be this way. For vamps, it will. Always. For hundreds of years.

The tale is told in alternating chapters between the two brothers, Jesse and Edgar, with other chapters devoted to the bikers and one who hunts them because they took his son. Light and dark have to hold hands to show their true natures. Same goes for people. These characters wrestle with the little devil in all our souls. Come see if anyone survives to live—truly live--another day or night. For me, vampire tales teach the break out of the self-imposed boxes we tend to put ourselves in lesson oh-so perfectly. We’re not dead yet. Or are we? When Jesse and Johona inadvertently interrupt the Fiends’ job, they find themselves running for their lives. As the Bicentennial—July 4th, 1976—approaches, these three groups will converge in Las Vegas for a violent and bloody showdown.The collaboration with Corrie bosses will see guests live like locals on 2 October, as booking for the Airbnb opens on 26 May at 1pm, with all money raised going to charity. There's a lot to like about this book. Despite being a vampire tale, it's told in a very literary voice. There are three narratives, one of which belongs to a human hunting the vamps, which is relayed in epistolary fashion, much like Stoker's. It's set in 1976. The vamps portrayed in Lang's version are human in every way except their inability to die by ordinary means, sunlight aversion and, oh yes, the need to feed on human blood. These vamps need feed only once a month, with the exception of infant blood, which will sustain them for a year. I have to admit, that's something I found silly. Fans of the ITV soap will have seen the large 'For Sale' attached to the iconic pub during Wednesday night's episode. A horror book with a different take on vampires. Of Mice and Men with vampires and a biker gang. Alternating POVs with a diverse cast and two different audiobook narrators.

I breezed though this and really enjoyed it, not just because of the characters and the fast-paced plot—this would make a great movie—but also because of the entertaining and well done audiobook narration. This was my first Richard Lange read, but it most certainly won’t be my last. From the cover to the words to the ending! It all added up to one badass read.

I love how Lange describes this book as Of Mice and Men with vampires. BOOM! I think that says it all. He gives us four points of view that slowly weave together to form one big, bad, bloody showdown in 1970s Vegas. I mean come on…what better place for the big bad to go down than Vegas, baby. A patch of sunlight lay on the empty bed like a brilliant quilt. Another spilled off the table onto the floor. The bright spots only made the rest of the room darker. I had to squint to penetrate the gloom.” stars. Vampires, just as bloody and ruthless as you might expect. But for Jesse, traveling with and eternally taking care of his brother Edgar, humanity lingers painfully. This portrayal of existence as a rover, always on the outside of everything, is stark and dangerous. And lonely. But as viewers know, the Rovers has been put on the market after Johnny Connor decided to sell up - after Jenny confessed to a one night stand with B&B lodger Ronnie Bailey.

There’s plenty of violence, and fear and sorrow, with betrayals and death coming fast and suddenly. We’re looking forward to getting it ‘sold’ like we do for thousands of homes across the country every year."Lange has a neat and visually descriptive writing style, which for me made this feel quite cinematic. Rovers reads like a Tarantino film looks and unfolds. Stylishly gritty, populated by archetype characters simultaneously larger than life and accurately reflective of reality, punctuated and ultimately defined by outrageous yet deftly framed violence. The final showdown takes place in Las Vegas, and setting it there in 1976, was a stroke of genius. In 1976 Sin City hadn't begun to cater to families yet. It was dark and seedy, Dirty and scary. Exactly the setting where a vampire showdown should take place! It was ironic that these vamps chose to travel throughout the parts of America with the longest days, harshest sunlight and grimiest underbelly. Fans of Coronation Street will be delighted to hear that the opportunity of a lifetime has come up, as they can now stay a night at the soaps favourite pub The Rovers Return. In 2018, ITV unveiled its biggest PP on British TV with a Costa Coffee and Co-op storefronts as part of the new extended Weatherfield set. ROVERS is a bleak, gritty, violent, and mostly tender portrayal of life as an outsider that happens to be about vampires. The writing is equal to the story. Inspiring and devastating.