Drawing Blood [Paperback]

Somewhere near the end of this book, I decided it was the best story I've ever read. I actually did like it to this extent and I highly recommend this book to all the young gays out there who wouldn't mind a little bit of gore and some exaggerated mentions of drug use, filthiness and death.

Although many of you would think of "Drawing Blood" as a horror book, I found the highlight of its plot being the love story between the two protagonists Trevor McGee and Zachary Bosch, the two cross paths in the town of Missing Mile, NC. Each with a different past and different reasons that, however, brought them to this same place. A place Trevor is no new-comer to. He is back in the hope of finding answers to what happened in that house on Violin Road twenty years ago when his father Robert McGee murdered his wife and younger son before he committed suicide leaving Trevor as the sole cast-off of the bloodily obliterated McGee family . Zach is a nineteen-year-old computer-hacking daredevil who had escaped from his abusive parents at age fourteen and ends up on the run from Secret Services agents for all the illegal hacking and on-line thievery he'd been pulling for years with impunity. Shortly after Trevor and Zach meet, they decide to stay in that very house on Violin Road where the murders had occurred. Eventually, the house turns out to be haunted and hazardous for both of them which hardly hinders Trevor from his questing for the truth.

Even though it's been written by a female author, Brite masters the art of depicting male-to-male sexuality with such grotesqueness, sensuality and innocence it'll make gay and bi male readers of this book get a hard-on every time a chapter drifts into a sex scene and will seldom make your eyes water at the tenderness those boys convey each other.

Brite's prose in "Drawing blood" is enjoyably fluent with vigorous character development and a suspenseful course of spooky events. Besides Zach and Trev, I grew specifically attached to one particular character; Kinsey Hummingbird, it seemed as though this character was all about portraying kindness and helping others without expecting much in return, I loved that about him. There's also a few recurring characters from Brite's previous vamp novel " LOST SOULS" which in my opinion is nowhere near as good as "DRAWING BLOOD".

A MUST-READ.

I recently read this book, not quite sure why I picked it up. This book has one huge strength: character development. Brite makes the reader feel like they know these characters, intimately.
Although the plot could have been better, it still is a great read. In my humble opinion, I think Brite has a true gift and talent!

Less vampiric than Lost Souls, Drawing Blood conveys a tale about a youngman with a dark past. Trevor is the survivor or a brutal familial murder/suicide committed by his father, Robert McGee. Trevor, like his father, is a writer of a comix called Birdland. When he gets to New Orleans, he meets Zachary Bosch, a computer hacker. They hang out in bars. Travor and Zachary have an unlikely monogamous sexual relationship (the author is female) that brings these two outcasts closer. At one point, they find their way into the cyberspace where they both face their pasts. Trevor meets his father and figures out that they share the same murdering impulses. Drawing Blood embraces all that was once very hip at one point with the body piercing set. She has obvious read William Gibson and John Shirley before setting out on this book. It is good. But this book shows that Poppy Brite is a better writer of vampire stories than just another cyberpunk follower.