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Blood Lust

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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.

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.

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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.

Rhys's Blood Lust definitely gets the vampress.net stamp of approval for vampy goodness!

Witty, intelligent and action packed! This novel is anything but the boring played out vampire stereotypes found in most vampire based novels. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll laugh some more and you'll hope someone beats the bad guys with their own body parts (and someone does!).

I personally enjoyed the numerous references and mockery of popular vampire culture. How can you NOT love a novel with lines like this: "Perhaps she did not know that she was supposed to bay at the moo, or perform some sort of necromantic rite. Maybe you were supposed to get a manual or something; 'Lestat's Complete Guide to Immortality and Jugular Rending'."

Buy this book! And bug his publishers to get moving on the second installment, hell and why not the third and fourth.

A brave and well-executed first novel that is both engaging and very funny. Wilcox has succeeded in `turning' the vampire formula on its unsuspecting head -- by rattling around with the innards and releasing a new breed of vampire and fiction.
A careful blend of humour, cliché and an all-star ensemble of have-a-go students ensure an enjoyable read from start to finish.

There are echoes of Pratchett-esque frivolity and irony; but Wilcox adds an extra dimension of sarcasm and innocent stupidity in his characters that have been absent from the Discworld since Sorcery. If Wilcox can pull off the series that he plans, it will be a fine feat indeed that should keep readers laughing for years.

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.

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.