A Drop of Red (Vampire Babylon) [Mass Market Paperback]

Chris Marie Green (Author)

Book Description

Series: Vampire Babylon | Publication Date: March 3, 2009

If you run out of vampires to destroy at home, there's always work overseas...

Hollywood stuntwoman-turned-vampire-hunter Dawn Madison, along with her comrades, managed to wipe out the Los Angeles Vampire Underground-and uncovered not only her own dark family heritage but also a terrible truth about the man she loves. Now she's determined to find the next vampire lair, hoping it will help her to make more sense out of her life.

When a new Underground is found in England, Dawn and a vampire-fighting team are dispatched to carry the fight to the enemy in London. Dawn knows by now how deceiving appearances can be-and she is about to find out that it's not only the beautiful people of Hollywood who are willing to bargain with evil...

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About the Author

Chris Marie Green, former school teacher turned full-time writer, gets out of the office by taking long trips to places such as Japan, Italy, and New Orleans. When she’s not causing international incidents, she enjoys practicing yoga, taking part in fangirl movie and TV program analysis, and writing romance novels under the name Crystal Green.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Ace Trade; Original edition (March 3, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0441016812
• ISBN-13: 978-0441016815
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,198,395 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Chris Marie Green's Vampire Babylon Series is gutsy!, April 4, 2011

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This review is from: A Drop of Red (Vampire Babylon) (Paperback)

Chris Marie Green's Vampire Babylon Series is gutsy! Dilemmas faced by the characters are an interesting mix of the supernatural and reality, keeping the story line grounded despite some very odd situations and/or encounters. Readers will be able to relate to seeing a friend struggling with addiction, or a family coping with the emotions and fallout resulting from a failed marriage. Chris Marie Green does a phenomenal job at incorporating such real world issues into the context of a world where vampires and other supernatural phenomenon can and do exist.

A Drop of Red is the first installment of a new story arc within the Vampire Babylon series. While a new reader to the series will miss out on a portion of the character developments, evolutions, and the history behind various relationships, the overall story line is new and it is not necessary to read the first arc to understand the second. Those who have read the first arc will find a radically different direction in this new story line as the power is shifting and changing among characters. New readers beware, as the first installment in the second arc of the series, there will be questions left unanswered at the conclusion of A Drop of Red.

4.0 out of 5 stars LATES ENTRY IN A GREAT SERIES, October 12, 2010

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Tim Janson (Michigan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Drop of Red (Vampire Babylon) (Mass Market Paperback)

A Drop of Red is the fourth book in the Vampire Babylon series but the first in the start of a new trilogy so if you haven't been on board previously, this makes a good jumping on point. The first trilogy, referred to as "The Hollywood Trilogy" introduced us to Dawn Madison, stuntwoman-turned-vampire hunter and her team. This next trilogy is called "The London Trilogy" and while it might be ideal to read the first trilogy to understand Dawn's back story and the other characters, Green does a good job of providing an overview so you don't feel like you're coming in completely blind.

Madison and her team have moved to London to hunt down a new Vampire underground. This includes Costin adding a new member to the team, largely against Dawn's intuition. Natalia Petri is a gifted psychic but Dawn, and Kiko (the team's resident psychic), feel she may pose a great threat to the team. Petri's senses lead the team to the decapitated corpse and the discovery that someone is watching them, leading to an even stranger body with its heart on the wrong side of the body. They'll soon discover this new underground being trained by a vampire master. With all this going on, Dawn also has to deal with her father now becoming a vampire, and the dual existence of Costin inhabiting the body of Jonah, and their battle for control of the body.

While it gets labeled with the Paranormal Romance tag, the Vampire Babylon series doesn't overly emphasize the romance part. There's enough suspense and grisly scenes to satisfy horror fans of all types. The characters are full fleshed out and you embrace them more with each book. There's also a lot of rousing action that keeps the story on a brisk pace throughout.

5.0 out of 5 stars Story line, June 6, 2010

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This review is from: A Drop of Red (Vampire Babylon) (Paperback)

This is a great book. You have to read these books in order. It was fanastic read. That are trilogies...and worth reading...Start out with Night Rising...

You will not be sorry...I was not. I really like to way Chris Marie Green writes.