Blood Lust is a high energy comedy that takes every cliché in the vampire chronicle and gives it new life to produce a tongue-in-cheek, schlock horror, action adventure that just doesn’t know when to stop.
Until it does.
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A must for all Vampire fans who have a dark sense of humour. -- Booklore.co.uk, November 2002
Blood Lust is heading up a new genre of writing. It's not what you expect but certainly everything you want. -- 4review.com, September 2002
Grasps you by the throat from go and doesn't let go. Brutal, hysterically snigger inducing, graphic and to the point. -- Bite Me Magazine, September 2002
Wilcox uses old and new clichés to good effect. Superbly visual, this cries out for a big budget film treatment. -- Sfcrowsnest.com, April 2003
Blood Lust is heading up a new genre of writing. It's not what you expect but certainly everything you want. -- 4review.com, September 2002
Grasps you by the throat from go and doesn't let go. Brutal, hysterically snigger inducing, graphic and to the point. -- Bite Me Magazine, September 2002
Wilcox uses old and new clichés to good effect. Superbly visual, this cries out for a big budget film treatment. -- Sfcrowsnest.com, April 2003
From the Author
Cameron Mortice is just trying to get on with his life as best he can. His mother is dead; he’s estranged from his family; he’s unemployed and now he’s been evicted from his Edinburgh flat with nothing to his name other than the underwear and t-shirt he slept in last night. It’s time to make amends.
Before he can get ‘home’ he needs to visit his girlfriend, Gillian, in Leeds to recuperate. There he meets her flatmates; Penny, Danny and Cassandra; and Nutter – an age-old vampire hunter who becomes their mentor.
That night, both he and Gillian die and then things start going from bad to worse.
Not only are vampires using the local populace to rapidly swell their insatiable ranks but their lord and master, Zorga, is leading the attack.
Penny gets abducted, Danny goes blind, Gillian turns bad, and Nutter and Cameron suffer crises of conscience and confidence.
The protagonists have to prevent themselves being turned into the undead as well as try to get close enough to Zorga to cease the spread of his evil any further than Yorkshire.
Q: How can you fight against an army of super-strength, immortal beings with no morals and no compunction about ripping your head off and sucking on the open wound?
A: High calibre, automatic weapons.
Well, if you think about it, a bullet is just a very small metal stake.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Blood Lust is a must!,
By MR M. M. DEWAR (Plymouth UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Blood Lust (Paperback)
Okay, corny review header, but it really is a good book. Answers all the questions anyone would really think upon meeting a vampire, including that pesky regeneration thing. This is the way Blade would be if it was a British film. I understand someone's making a Red Dwarf film. This should be their next development.I demand more people buy it, 'cause I'm fed up waiting for the next one. You can get it from amazon.co.uk.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Buy this book,
By Matthew Baillie (London,UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Blood Lust (Paperback)
A very smart, very knowing and very amusing slant on the Vampire myth. Wilcox obviously has his tongue pressed firmly into his cheek. The book has no pretence of horror but is simply innovative and hugely entertaining. One of the least frightening books you are likely to read this year but without doubt one of the funniest! A great comic talent. Buy this book - it is available on Amazon.co.uk.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Gory giggles,
By MR M J THORPE (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Blood Lust (Paperback)
... This book is a wonderful mixture of the insanely manic (student vampires in modern day England), cut-your-pinky off sharp wit and moments of shocking hilarity. Influences of Pratchett-esque silliness and fantasy throughout, but written in a very original and effective style that kept me from putting this gem down until I had thoroughly embarassed myself in public by laughing out loud so much. Weird, wacky, colorful, creative and comical. Salty and sanguine fun. Do read this book.
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