Blood of our children [Paperback]

Matt Wartell (Author), Matthew L. Wartell (Author), Steven Peiker (Author)

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In the Lidz, Poland ghetto of 1790, Nosferatu has breeched the Jewish community by attacking Jewish boys on the day before their Bar Mitzvah, the day before their thirteenth birthday. With the Jewish leaders rejecting the possibility of Vampyra, their protector, Count Vronski, enjoins the worldly Rebbe Zi to confront the issue. Typical Christian symbols have no power, and the two must determine how best to stop the blood-letting. The sudden twist at the conclusion leaves the door open to wide interpretations. Illustrated with 20 black and white drawings by Steven Peiker, Blood Of Our Children is an original take on a great horror fantasy genre! Great reading for teens and young adults. -- Midwest Book Review

Product Details

• Paperback: 212 pages
• Publisher: Web Pub. Co; 1 edition (1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0963901478
• ISBN-13: 978-0963901477
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,498,643 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Fun, unusual, sometimes scary story, September 30, 1997

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[e-mail] (Chris Leppek, Denver) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blood of our children (Paperback)

Author Wartell, with an intelligent style that occasionally veers toward brilliance, manages the difficult task of combining several vastly different cultures who shared the stage of the book's time and place -- the poverty-stricken and ultra-religious Polish Jewish community of the late 18th century; the highly politicized and powerful world of the Polish Catholic nobility; and the mysterious and mystical life of the ever-wandering Eastern European Gypsies.

As deadly vampires enter this polyglot picture, specifically by preying upon Jewish youths on the eve of their Bar Mitzvahs, Wartell personalizes the story with a handful of well-drawn characters.

Conversations and interaction between these characters provide fascinating discourses on politics, religion, philosophy and spirituality. But when two of them -- a Polish rabbi and Catholic nobleman -- find themselves in a tomb populated by a small host of newly-made and ravenous vampires, their talk abruptly ceases. The ensuing scene is bloody eno