Blood Groove
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4.3 • 7 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
When centuries-old vampire Baron Rudolfo Zginski was staked in Wales in 1915, the last thing he expected was to reawaken in Memphis, Tennessee, sixty years later. Reborn into a new world of simmering racial tensions, the cunning nosferatu realizes he must adapt quickly if he is to survive.
Finding willing victims is easy, as Zginski possesses all the powers of the undead, including the ability to sexually enslave anyone he chooses. Hoping to learn how his kind copes with this bizarre new era, Zginski tracks down a nest of teenage vampires. But these young vampires have little knowledge of their true nature, having learned most of what they know from movies like Blacula.
Forming an uneasy alliance with the young vampires, Zginski begins to teach them the truth about their powers. They must learn quickly, for there's a new drug on the street—a drug created to specifically target and destroy vampires. As Zginski and his allies track the drug to its source, they may unwittingly be stepping into a fifty-year-old trap that can destroy them all . . .
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
First published by Night Shade in 2006, this dark tale of vampires in 1970s Memphis is marred by racial stereotypes and grim perversions. Baron Rudolfo Vladimir Zginski, stabbed with a crucifix in 1915, reanimates 60 years later when pathologist Patricia Johnson withdraws the cross from his mummified corpse. The racist and self-absorbed Zginski kills his African-American resurrector and heads out into the world. He joins up with a gaggle of young vampires, including lecherous black teens Olive and Leonardo, who speak almost entirely in clich d blaxploitation patois ("Don't be a jive turkey, sweetheart") and use telepathy to seduce and kill unsuspecting humans. Coroner Danielle Roseberry almost becomes the pair's latest prey until Zginski realizes they all need her help to trace the origin of a mysterious vampire-killing dust. Bledsoe (The Sword-Edged Blonde) employs a suave, creepy style that suits the story but can't mitigate his appalling treatment of female and minority characters.
Customer Reviews
Boners and Unsympathetic Characters abound
If the author had spent half the time he did describing people's sexual arousal on developing characters and some semblance of a plot, this would be a vastly better book. He didn't and it's not.
I'm all for characters of moral ambiguity, but it's difficult to root for a group of amoral killers represented shallowly as a kiddie pool while the author takes every chance he gets to degrade and demean the one character of potential dimension he created.
Frankly, it's embarrassingly bad. The prose is childish, the attempt at any analysis of race relations is laughable, and the semblance of a plot is something that almost seems like the author forgot about it for about a hundred pages.
I can't even say this is a book of poor taste- it's just legitimately bad writing.