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A review by jessthebookworm
A Love Like Blood by Marcus Sedgwick
2.0
I was undecided between 2 and 3 stars. So maybe it's more of a 2.5 star book.
Our narrator is in France at the end of World War 2, and he sees a man drinking the blood of a young woman, and in fear he runs away. The image haunts him for years, and then one day he sees the man again, with another woman. He decides that he has to follow this time to learn more about this man and what is going on.
This book is about obsessions, and more particularly obsessions with blood.
It reminded me of other books I've read similar to this, like the Historian by Elizabeth Kostova, just not as well-written. It didn't help that our main character was such a creep who just followed random women around all the time and objectified them completely.
I was hoping for a supernatural vampire story, but alas, that is not what I got.
Our narrator is in France at the end of World War 2, and he sees a man drinking the blood of a young woman, and in fear he runs away. The image haunts him for years, and then one day he sees the man again, with another woman. He decides that he has to follow this time to learn more about this man and what is going on.
This book is about obsessions, and more particularly obsessions with blood.
It reminded me of other books I've read similar to this, like the Historian by Elizabeth Kostova, just not as well-written. It didn't help that our main character was such a creep who just followed random women around all the time and objectified them completely.
I was hoping for a supernatural vampire story, but alas, that is not what I got.