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Out for Blood

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What we have here is a quick easy vampire novel featuring a gay main character and gay or bi side ones.

Mr Cooke makes makes two attempts at originality: first most of the vampires are comparatively young and therefore depicted more as fun starved teens than as thirsty fiends; second the vampires are here depicted as a different race, not really evil.

The plot is sometimes slow, made of paragraphs full of details, sometimes it is so rushed that some logical connections are missing: all in all it is nice and pleasant. Truth to be told, Chris, the main character, is the only one who has any depth, while the others look quite pale and ill rounded.

Moral issues - the need to kill, the missing soul - are treated inconsistently: sometimes they are given much thought, sometimes they are discarded as useless which of course is annoying.

If all you need is a read for a rainy afternoon, Out for Blood is great; if you think that even mass fiction should show an author's care you will find a nice enough novel which could have been much better hat it been fleshed out and thouroughly revised: just take the happy ending (I will not spoil your fun and will not tell you what it is): we are given it in the last five pages with no preparation whatsoever.

Of course we are glad that Chris is going to be happy in his new eternal life but all this happiness seems to have fallen off the sky.

nothing to add to the review given already. This was one of the best vampire books I had read until recent years gay, straight or otherwise, when it first came out. Fun read and love the ideal of HIV being defeated by vampirism!