A review by anbar
Blood Groove by Alex Bledsoe

2.0

Showed some promise early on--Fauvette was an interesting character, the 1970's is a potentially refreshingly unusual choice of setting, especially for a Victorian-age vampire to suddenly have to adapt to--but lost major points for lame blacksploitation (want to make a situation creepy or scary? "Lots of black people showed up"! Black people are so exotic and dangerous and scary!)--granted 'things were different back then', but race issues in the story were overplayed, and not in a real-feeling way; it often felt stilted and fake--and for gratuitous sex/rape (because the first thing any decent person does when they get in a position of power is molest/rape people, including their best friends! Sex is the first consideration in *every* person's mind! Unless you're a virgin, which means you have no sexual urges! [Dude, if that was true, humans would be *extremely* rare]).
I'm going to finish just to see what happens, but 3/4 of the way through I'm not enthusiastic.