Blood Country
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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Publisher Description
“If you’re searching the horror horizon for a dark star, your next must-read, the silhouette you see coming your way is Jonathan Janz.”— Josh Malerman, New York Times best selling author of Bird Box
Book 2 in The Raven series
Three years ago the world ended when a group of rogue scientists unleashed a virus that awakened long-dormant strands of human DNA. They awakened the bestial side of humankind: werewolves, satyrs, and all manner of bloodthirsty creatures. Within months, nearly every man, woman, or child was transformed into a monster…or slaughtered by one.
A rare survivor without special powers, Dez McClane has been fighting for his life since mankind fell, including a tense barfight that ended in a cataclysmic inferno. Dez would never have survived the battle without Iris, a woman he’s falling for but can never be with because of the monster inside her. Now Dez’s ex-girlfriend and Iris’s young daughter have been taken hostage by an even greater evil, the dominant species in this hellish new world:
Vampires.
The bloodthirsty creatures have transformed a four-story school building into their fortress, and they’re holding Dez’s ex-girlfriend and Iris’s young daughter captive. To save them, Dez and his friends must risk everything. They must infiltrate the vampires’ stronghold and face unspeakable terrors.
Because death awaits them in the fortress. Or something far worse.
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Janz's sequel to 2020's The Raven isn't his best work; action-packed stock situations, rather than innovative chills, dominate this familiar account of attempted survival in a postapocalyptic world. In the previous volume, rogue scientists "unleashed a plague that obliterated nearly all of humankind, the earth now a horrorscape of monsters and bloodshed and fear." Now, "nearly every person on earth had either been transformed into a monster or been killed by one." Dez McClane, whose father, son, and brother have all already succumbed to the DNA-altering disease, hopes to rescue others dear to him before it's too late. After McClane's new love's daughter, Cassidy, and his ex-girlfriend, Susan, are abducted by the vampires who have taken over a large portion of the U.S. (now known as Blood Country), McClane vows to rescue them. This mission consists of largely predictable perils and entirely unsurprising twists. The straightforward prose and heaps of explicit gore don't do much to enhance the clichéd plot. Walking Dead fans seeking more of the same will be pleased; others, not so much.
