A review by dementomstie
Blood Groove by Alex Bledsoe

3.0

I don't know how to feel about this one really. It was a pretty good Vampire novel, but there was also a fair amount of rape in it. I understand that this is normal for Vampire Novels, but it's usually not handled so graphically as it is in this.

It's a fairly straight forward horror novel, but with a twist of drug addiction thrown in. It's strange to have scenes of bodies being torn apart and then have a scene with sex or drugs, and the scene that is more disturbing isn't the one with the bloody corpses.

I don't think I'd read more by this author, but only because I don't really like "real" Horror novels. I like things that are lighter and which aren't as socially heavy. It's probably fine for other people, but I just didn't like it too much. I think one of the harder things to accept from this book was that basically everyone is a terrible person that deserves to die. If they're not a vampire they're otherwise reprehensible. There's a bit of mystery and it ends pretty well, but the nearly constant sexual assault that occurs in sections of this book is really off putting and just not my cup of tea.