A review by kriscent
Dead Blood: Book One by Jay Bower

dark fast-paced

1.0

The premise is interesting but the execution is lacking. I found that for a vampire who's had thousands of years of practice he's really bad at being a vampire. He makes silly mistakes like talking out loud near a hoard of zombies and his "luring of prey" is cringe-worthy. Dorian also isn't likable. You need a MC you can root for,  an anti-heto, a lovable rouge and the MC is just brutal and nasty. It would have helped if the author explained why he was disemboweling people, like he knew they were rapists, etc. instead we get a half-assed attempt at explaining that he's hungry and needs blood and these guys just happen to be there. This is after sacrificing a young girl to zombies after handicapping her so she can't escape and killing a countless amount of animals along the way. The story also get progressively more confusing and less interesting. I think the author should rethink the storyline and rewrite it. 
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