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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
An enjoyable read..., December 25, 2000
By A Customer
Don't listen to some of these naysayers. Blood of My Blood is actually a rather enjoyable and worthy read, and also a slight departure from the first three novels. As one reviewer put it, this seems like a transition into another, separate trilogy from the (excellent) first three books in the Vampire Legacy. The focus has shifted, somewhat, from Deirdre and Mitch to Lily, the stillborn daughter Deirdre thought long dead and buried. In the process, we are introduced to a veritable smorgasbord of interesting new characters, including the villainous Angelo and the benevolent Moon. About half of this novel is told from Lily's viewpoint, while the other half is told from Deirdre's. This sets up some rather interesting interpretations of characters' actions, especially when we get to see the same event from both perspectives. An excellent storytelling device, and somewhat hard to pull of convincingly. Ms. Taylor succeeds admirably. All in all, a quality read. I eagerly await the next one in the series.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best Book Of The Series, September 29, 2000
By A Customer
Deirdre Griffin is back after 4 years! This time she is battling the daughter she didn't know she had. All of the Deirdre books are written in the first person, but this is written from the perspective of Deirdre and of her daughter. The book takes the reader from the backwoods of Maine to New York to the streets of New Orleans, mixing in healthy doses of vampirism and Santeria (voodoo). Ms. Taylor has outdone herself in writing a horror novel where you really care about the characters. Defintely a "Couldn't put it down book".
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Tantalizing!, December 19, 2001
Deep dark forces drive the plot of this tantalizing novel with each and every page. We begin by learning about Lily Williams...beautiful and young yet completely consumed with anger and hatred. Abandoned at birth by her mother, left to dig her way out of a dark gloomy grave with no one to turn to and no where to go, Lily feels virtually no emotions aside from the loneliness, pain and betrayal that has built to raging heights over many long and grueling years. See, while Lily may look young on the outside and appear to those around her as one of the age of twenty-two, she is in truth over a century old. Part human and part vampire, she ages but not as a full-blooded human would. Discovered by a woman of dark religious beliefs name Philomena just after she clawed her way out of the grave, Lily is passed down from generation after generation to Philomena's children...each taking on the responsibility of watching over Lily and keeping her safe as she grew so slowly through the years. But there is no one to care for her now. Moon, Lily's last guardian has been murdered on the streets of New Orleans. Juggling the options of how to continue life and fearful of what the future may hold, Lily allows herself to become overrun by the anger and hatred she has strived on for over a century and sets out to find the woman who caused such horrible emotions in her so long ago.The story continues as we come to know Deirdre Griffin-Greer, vampire and wife of Mitch Greer. In a small cabin in the woods of Maine, Deirdre and Mitch have found peace from the darkness and blood retched lingering smell of New York City. At least, they had found peace for a while. Now suddenly Mitch is experiencing horrible nightmares...nightmares that are causing him to cry out in his sleep. "Kill her," are the words he cries. "She deserves to die." Deirdre made him what he is. She stripped him of the normal human life he knew and turned him to the darkness. She had done this not because of her urge to feed but because of her love for him and her need for companionship. Now he resented her for it and wanted her dead. These feelings she recognized all too well. After all, she to had killer her maker. Unsure if she should fear her husband, she leaves while he is sleeping only to return to find him and everything to the curtains ripped away from their happy little cabin. He's left her and taken everything with him...even her clothes! With no where else to go but back to New York, Deirdre sets out on her journey only to learn along the way that Mitch had not only left her but he had left with another woman. Pain and anger build more inside. The longing to kill instigated by the cat inside her scratching to get out, wanting to get even with the man who has hurt her so badly. It's in New York that she discovers the truth. The woman with whom Mitch fled with was not just any woman, she was Deirdre's daughter...a daughter whom she thought was still borne and had buried over a century ago. Consumed with anger and revenge her daughter had sought to destroy Deirdre in the one way that would hit straight to her heart...through the man she loved. BLOOD OF MY BLOOD is book four of the captivating VAMPIRE LEGACY series. Despite the darkness and gloom of the vampire world and all that it entails, this book brings you to a hopeful state...one in which you deeply feel for the characters and long for a happy conclusion. The division of the novel into six parts allows the opportunity to see the complete plot through both the eyes of Lily and Deirdre bringing you to a greater since of understanding for the actions and emotions of both. You feel the hatred and abandonment that Lily feels toward Deirdre yet, at the same time, your heart goes out to Deirdre in her time of sorrow. BLOOD OF MY BLOOD is, in a word, a "killer" book which I highly recommend.
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