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A review by sanddanz
Biology of Blood by Mark Parker
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.