Blood Red is Ravenous with vampires and none of the bite. Kealan Patrick Burke described Blood Red as “Brutal and scary”. I read all three hundred and ninety-six pages of this damn novel, and I’m still looking for the brutal and scary parts. I would have quit reading it at three or four different points, but Moore would get me hooked again and again, only to let me down again and again.
 
The new guy in Black Stone Bay, Jason Soulis, is a vampire. A powerful, evil, vampire. He hires a prostitute to seduce some priests. He turns many, many, citizens to bloodthirsty creatures of the night. Other people are killed, and I’m already bored describing it.
It all pretty much goes nowhere.The bright spot are two wise cracking detectives, who are only funny in the sense that they are embarrassments to wise cracking detectives and all their jokes fall flat. Stupendously unfunny. To say that they are out of place is an understatement of enormous proportions.
 
Blood Red is a build up to nothing. Nothing. Let me stress that- NOTHING.

A major disappointment. Skip it.

1 out of 5
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