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sanddanz's review
3.0
Up front I shall say that I am not a fan of short stories typically as I don't feel you can get to know the characters well enough to grow attached to them as I do with a novel. With the case of BIOLOGY OF BLOOD, it's not so much a short story as the beginning of a longer book. If I recall my conversation with Mark Parker correctly, this is the first of two short stories to be published with a third novella length book coming after that to complete the entire story.
In this short, the reader is given the chance to meet mainly three characters: Draymond, his roommate Trevor, and his biology professor Prete. Draymond is concerned about something he read in his biology textbook and is looking to question Prete about it since he was the author of the text. However, what he discovers is a bit more than what he bargained for.
Based on the cover art and title of this series you can pretty much figure out up front what he's going to discover so the story isn't really suspenseful at this point, however I think that as Parker expands upon this story there is great potential for things to get interesting. I'm looking forward to seeing where he goes from here as the first short seemed a bit bland for me, like the beginning of many novels out there. There just wasn't time to get to know any of the characters well enough nor to even see much vampire action. I'll definitely be picking up "book" 2 to see what happens next as it sounds like things are just beginning for Draymond.
In this short, the reader is given the chance to meet mainly three characters: Draymond, his roommate Trevor, and his biology professor Prete. Draymond is concerned about something he read in his biology textbook and is looking to question Prete about it since he was the author of the text. However, what he discovers is a bit more than what he bargained for.
Based on the cover art and title of this series you can pretty much figure out up front what he's going to discover so the story isn't really suspenseful at this point, however I think that as Parker expands upon this story there is great potential for things to get interesting. I'm looking forward to seeing where he goes from here as the first short seemed a bit bland for me, like the beginning of many novels out there. There just wasn't time to get to know any of the characters well enough nor to even see much vampire action. I'll definitely be picking up "book" 2 to see what happens next as it sounds like things are just beginning for Draymond.
miztrebor's review
4.0
Going into this book, you somewhat know the outcome, due to the title and name of the series. I won’t say that there was much in the way of suspense on the journey to the big reveal of this story, but I don’t feel it took too much away from the story.
This is set up to be a story told in serial form, so to be honest this wasn't a full short story, like I had thought might be the case before reading it. There was a feeling that this was only a section of the larger story and I was left wanting more. That’s both a good and bad thing for a reader.
There’s some development of the main character, Dray, and also his professor. There was also some minor details told to start building the story. As I said I had a good idea of where this story was going to go, but I still would like to see where it continues in the next installment. I hope it’s a little longer, as I feel this is a story I’d enjoy bundled all together in one novel. We’ll just have to see where Parker takes us next.
This is set up to be a story told in serial form, so to be honest this wasn't a full short story, like I had thought might be the case before reading it. There was a feeling that this was only a section of the larger story and I was left wanting more. That’s both a good and bad thing for a reader.
There’s some development of the main character, Dray, and also his professor. There was also some minor details told to start building the story. As I said I had a good idea of where this story was going to go, but I still would like to see where it continues in the next installment. I hope it’s a little longer, as I feel this is a story I’d enjoy bundled all together in one novel. We’ll just have to see where Parker takes us next.
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