Blood Pact (BLOOD SERIES)
by Tanya Huff
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Author: Tanya HuffEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-09-25
ISBN: 0756405041
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: DAW
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Book Review: A Bloody Mess
Summary: 1 Stars
I am just fed up with this series! It isn't even about vampires - it's more about demons, werewolves, mummies and zombies and a woman with a violent, immature temper. The only vampire we see throughout is Henry Fitzroy, "Bastard son of Henry VIII of a not-so-tall height and a scattering of red-gold hairs on his arms glinting in the light" - that's the description we get of Henry ALL the time. Ms. Huff, we get the point!
Basically, the most exciting part was the first book, Blood Price, when Vicki finds out about Henry. Otherwise, we just have a woman with a degenerative eye disease who had to leave the police force, she pushes her glasses up the bridge of her nose all the time, throws things, has a vampire and a human lover whom she yells at a lot, and she chases around supernatural creatures but really relies on her own personal vampire to do the real detective work.
In this novel, Vicki's mother dies then disappears, amid descriptions of Dr. Burke and the grad students she has in a secret lab doing experiments with bacteria that bring the dead back to life. This was the most interesting part, learning about the process that goes along with the bacteria and what's going on behind the decaying eyes of the zombies they have created. Otherwise, Vicki pretty much has a lot of breakdowns and Henry and Mike Celluci have dominance contests at every turn.
My preference is MORE VAMPIRES! If you're going to have a series with Blood in every title, you'd think you would see more than one vampire who isn't described much beyond how I described him at the beginning of this review - oh, and he writes cheesy romance novels as "Elizabeth Fitzroy" ugh. And I like my heroes sexy and female-oriented. Reading descriptions of Henry's exploits with the street-rat Tony and some other random men just doesn't do it for me. The most we see of him and Vicki is Henry licking her wrist or kissing her or rubbing a thumb down her wrist. There isn't much interaction beyond that besides them arguing or working on a case. There's nothing in between shivers going up and down her spine and then her sleeping soundly in bed. So, Vicki knows that Henry goes other places to feed and "find pleasure" - eww! Nothing romantic.
I get tired of brass-bound-b****es who run around having temper tantrums and throwing things. A strong female lead, one whom I can relate to, isn't such a mental case! The only real reason I've read this far into the series is I was given 4 of the 5 books in a box of used books and I'm curious as to how it ends. But, I've never been enthralled and if any of the characters had died at any time, it wouldn't have bothered me at all.
This is not a vampire series, it's an unbalanced detectives series where the detective keeps running into supernatural cases and has a vampire sidekick. *YAWN*
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