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Title: Blood Games by Lee Killough, Kevin Murphy ISBN: 1-892065-41-X Publisher: Meisha Merlin Publishing Pub. Date: May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Disappointed
Comment: I waited 10 years for this book and must admitt that I was
disappointed. It's not as good and the first two. I found that
it dragged and really didn't make me want to finish it.
I do like her newest book Wilding Nights and hope she
will write more in that series.
Rating: 5
Summary: Vampire whose human family accepts him.
Comment: Garreth Mikaelian is a fascinatingly different vampire, and maybe the most exciting one of all.
He lives on bottled blood, like most of the vampires I like (Forever Knight etc) and write about (Those of My Blood, Dreamspy -- or even my fantasy vampire, Dorian St. James in the anthology Heaven and Hell from Speculation Press.) But what makes him realistic for me and thus different is the way his ex-partner and family accepts what he is.
It's Garreth who has trouble accepting his human friends' acceptance. His ex-partner's wife is especially interesting for her expertise with the I-Ching and Garreth's attitude toward her pronouncements.
Meanwhile Garreth is acquiring a new family - a vampire family.
This novel, Blood Games, takes us through a necessary transition phase in Garreth's existence, and it's a page turner with a complex multi-leveled plot and rich adult themes.
At the start, Garreth is settled into a stable, somewhat fulfilling and almost happy life. Nothing has happened for years now as he works in the Sheriff's dept. in a small town and becomes well known and trusted. Once again, Lee Killough paints us a picture of a normal person who happens to be a vampire. You can easily picture yourself in his position.
But by the nature of his condition, it can't last. And here in this book is the beginning of change.
The plot is all about chasing a serial killer or three who seem perhaps to be vampires (or think they are). You aren't really sure about what Garreth is chasing until the end -- and neither is he.
He shows us once again that despite being a vampire, he's a cop. It's what he's always been - it's what he wants to be.
And he's still able to use his original identity, but in this novel, he's facing the fact that he must soon move on. And that's the real conflict in this novel - the real developmental tension for these characters -- change. The resistance to change, the confrontation with necessity, the anguished acceptance of change, and the whole new situation that results at the end of the novel -- is all about change.
The new situation at the ending puts me in mind of Fred Saberhagen's FRIEND OF THE FAMILY - the vampire that watches over generations of a human family.
I'm hoping that Lee will carry on Garreth's tale and let us meet up with his family's descendents as he watches over them.
But this book leaves us with a twist. If you like vampire novels at all, you must have this book on your special shelf.
Live Long and Prosper,
Jacqueline Lichtenberg
Rating: 5
Summary: POLICE PROCEDURAL WITH A DIFFERENCE
Comment: Lee Killough's BLOOD GAMES grabs you from the first paragraph and never lets go. Killough masterfully intertwines fantasy, science fiction, psychology and solid police procedures in an excellent and excting story of a vampire detective. Garreth Mikaelian balances his detecting with one foot in this world and one in the vampire world. Yet, throughout the book, he he solves crimes with good detection, sometimes making use ot his unique abilities. I highly ecommend this book. Janet B. Fudala, Ph.D. CEO, Educational Solutions
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Title: Wilding Nights by Lee Killough ISBN: 1892065711 Publisher: Meisha Merlin Pub Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Blood Walk by Lee Killough, Kevin Murphy, Stephen Pagel ISBN: 0965834506 Publisher: Meisha Merlin Pub Pub. Date: 01 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Death Masks (The Dresden Files, Book 5) by Jim Butcher ISBN: 0451459407 Publisher: Roc Pub. Date: 05 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Blood Is Thicker Than Water by Wynette A. Hoffman ISBN: 0972109803 Publisher: Alien Perspective Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Undead and Unwed (Berkley Sensation) by Mary Janice Davidson ISBN: 042519485X Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 02 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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