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The Blood of the Covenant

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3 star:		(1)
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I agree with the other reviewers. This is every bit as good as its predecessor, The Book of Common Dread. That's rare for a sequel. A truly original take on the vampire tradition. The pace is excellent. Several nice twists don't hurt either. I'd love to see this become a movie.

This novel was extremely excellent. It is one of the most amazing vampire stories ever written. The dark humor and blazing real-ness make this book a very entertaining piece of art! It stimulates the senses with lust and death and extreme erotic evilness. The story is one of the battle between the dark and the light, the good and evil, and the human race and the vampire race that hopes to take over the world with it's blood hungry kind. I highly recommend this novel to ANY one who enjoys a great horror story!

The follow-up to "The Book Of Common Dread" is
even better than the original. Taking over where
the first book left off, it follows Simon Penn
and Frederika Vanderveen on their quest to unravel
the mystery of the Scrolls of Ahriman. We are
propelled from Princeton University to Europe in
their search for a scholar willing to translate the scrolls that prove that vampires exist. Can
they accomplish this in time or will the dark angels close in for the kill ? Well, you'll just have to buy the book and find out !!!! You won't be disappointed.

Once again, Monahan scores with this dark and wonderful novel. It picks up where the first left off, taking the reader on an action-filled ride to the finish. If you want to escape the dreadful, angsty clutches of Anne Rice and similar authors, pick these books up!

To understand this book, you'd first have to read The Book of Common Dread, and if that one doesn't get you to love it, then keep to your stereotypical vampire stories.

I'm hoping they'll make movies out of these two books! That would make for some entertaining cinema. ^^

This was an amazing and gripping story. it caught me up in it right from the start.

This sequel to The Book of Common Dread (1993) finds Monahan's protagonists, Simon Penn and Frederika Vanderveen, once again struggling to protect the scrolls of Ahriman from the vampires and the forces of evil which they serve. This time the intrepid pair get some assistance from a policeman turned Vatican priest and a local police officer. The whole thing builds to another showdown between good and evil within the halls of Princeton's Firestone Library.

Monahan has borrowed extensively from the vampiric traditions but has added enough of his own invention, including making them servants of Satan, to produce a new and exciting mythos. There is more lively fun in these books than in the entire gloom drenched, self-serious oeuvre of Anne Rice & her ilk. They make for diverting escapist fare.

GRADE: C+

While this book was interesting and kept me reading, it was not nearly as good as "The Book of Common Dread." I loved the characters, so I was kept interested, and we learn some new things about vampires and the scrolls. The main problem was that this book felt like it was building up to something (a third book perhaps) that never happens. Sure, there was a nice battle at the end where good triumphed over evil for the time being, but there is still so much left to tell in this story. I've read on Mr. Monahan's website that he won't be writing a third book anytime soon, but I hate that he left us hanging.

Brent Monahan's follow up to "Book of Common Dread" is as good as the original. Basically, its a tale between good and evil, human versus super human (Vampires) and the devil. Fast read, nothing too thought provoking though but occasionally, one starts to think, hey, yeah, that could happen! =