May 29, 2007
What I'm Reading: 13 Bullets by David Wellington
I was more interested in David Wellington's zombie stories, serialized on his blog, brokentype.org. But this twist on the vampire tale is a gem! The blurb below says it all. It's a fast-paced read, yet not dumbed down. I like a tweaks to the vampire mythos, which makes the story more suspensful and exciting. I'm half way through the serialized blog version, but it just dropped today in book form on Amazon.com, so I'm ordering my copy this week!
From Publishers Weekly Minimally plotted and driven by nonstop action, this gory vampire tale is of a piece with Wellington's zombie novels (Monster Island; Monster Nation). Special deputy Jameson Arkeley stopped a vampire rampage 20 years earlier, during which he whittled down all known bloodsuckers to a single survivor, Justinia Malvern. Kept alive at a sanitarium in rural Pennsylvania by minimal life support and bizarre laws preventing her extermination, wispy Justinia seems a threat to no one—until a series of vampire killings in the area suggest that she has found a secret way to spread her taint. Convinced that Justinia's minions plan to spring her and revive her to full power, Arkeley commandeers state trooper Laura Caxton to help him find their lair and wipe them out before they can get their vampire queen the blood she needs. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Posted by toddkelley at May 29, 2007 11:49 AM
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