- Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: Meisha Merlin Publishing, Inc. (Nov 23 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 189206541X
- ISBN-13: 978-1892065414
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 431 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,888,035 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
If you're a vampire, please pay close attention. Do you find your immortal life increasingly burdened with the effort of keeping up false appearances? If so, you're not alone. Garreth Mikaelian, a sleuthing vampire, knows how you feel in his third (and tedious) mystery (after Blood Hunt and Bloodlines). He's only been a vampire for 15 years and already it's evident he's unlike his fellow humans. They grow older, while he stays young. His own son looks more like a twin brother every day. The time is coming, his vampire-friendly advisers warn, when he'll have to abandon his old life. Meanwhile, he's still a Kansas cop and on the trail of an albino psycho whose victims include Garreth's partner and sometime lover. Complicating the chase is the possibility that the vicious killer may be a vampire. An indiscreet vampire is a threat to all vampires. Garreth must determine whether to kill him if he is or jail him if he is not. So begins an interminable manhunt. But then just about everything in this novel is interminable. As the popularity of Anne Rice's novels (or on the cult level of such films as Near Dark and Innocent Blood) shows, there's always room for another original take on the vampire theme. Unfortunately, Killough has nothing new or imaginative to offer. Her vampires are a boring lot without a good scare in any of them. (June)paperback, BloodWalk.
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
The Midwest Book Review, May 2001
"This police procedural with a supernatural twist is one surprise after another; expect that readers will enjoy the tale."
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointed,
By A Customer
This review is from: Blood Games (Paperback)
I waited 10 years for this book and must admitt that I wasdisappointed. 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.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Vampire whose human family accepts him.,
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This review is from: Blood Games (Paperback)
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,
5.0 out of 5 stars
POLICE PROCEDURAL WITH A DIFFERENCE,
By Janet Fudala, Ph.D. (Silverdale, WA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Blood Games (Paperback)
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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