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Blood Oath
by Christopher Farnsworth
This wasn't bad, but it wasn't anything new and inspiring either. I liked that Cade is so demonstrably inhuman. I thought Zach was funny. I liked the idea of the secret, crime-fighting vampire. All in all I enjoyed the book.
My only real complaint, beyond there being nothing particularly new here, is that (as is SO OFTEN the case, especially with male authors) there are exactly 3 women in the book. They all play minor roles. Two are the lovers of more important male characters and one uses sex as a weapon and currency to get what she wants. And what she wants is to not age. (Can we say cliched female motivation?)
Is it truly not possible to have a female character who isn't characterized by who she has sex with or why? This book wasn't really any worse than other books in the regard, but as always, it's an irritant that you can't unnoticed once you do. And once you start noticing, you realize how painfully frequent it is.
Bronson Pinchot did all right with the narration. I thought he played Cade too dryly. He sounded board for most of the book, instead of intense. But it wasn't unpleasant to listen to, on the whole.
My only real complaint, beyond there being nothing particularly new here, is that (as is SO OFTEN the case, especially with male authors) there are exactly 3 women in the book. They all play minor roles. Two are the lovers of more important male characters and one uses sex as a weapon and currency to get what she wants. And what she wants is to not age. (Can we say cliched female motivation?)
Is it truly not possible to have a female character who isn't characterized by who she has sex with or why? This book wasn't really any worse than other books in the regard, but as always, it's an irritant that you can't unnoticed once you do. And once you start noticing, you realize how painfully frequent it is.
Bronson Pinchot did all right with the narration. I thought he played Cade too dryly. He sounded board for most of the book, instead of intense. But it wasn't unpleasant to listen to, on the whole.