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This second installment by PN Elrod continues the story of an Ace Reporter turned Vampire. When his girlfriend is held hostage, watch out.But enough about the plot, which is pulp in the finest sense. The real reason to buy and savor this book is because it is a classic. PN Elrod's easy noir narration and stunning though sparce imagery set it apart from lesser novels. But more importantly this novel, though set in an earlier, gangster era, came out in the early nineties about the time when fantasy started modernizing from medieval to contemporary times, making this one of the series that spawned the birth of what we now call the urban fantasy genre.
It's also a fun read.
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Lifeblood Playaway Adult Fiction P N Elrod Barrett Whitener 9781441702708 Books Reviews
Book Review by C. Douglas Baker
I described Elrod's BLOODLIST, Book One of The Vampire Files as "comic book quality action/adventure with a bit of the supernatural thrown in". LIFEBLOOD, Book Two of The Vampire Files, is more of the same. LIFEBLOOD continues the saga of Jack Fleming, former reporter, part-time private detective, full-time vampire.
LIFEBLOOD brings back all the key characters from the previous novel and the story pretty much picks up where BLOODLIST left off. We find Fleming still searching for the elusive Maureen, his lost love. We also discover more of Maureen's past and why she fled from Fleming in New York. Jack meets Maureen's sister, now a gnarled and bitter old woman, after she responds to his advertisement in the personal column. This meeting marks the beginning of a life and death struggle for Jack. He is chased by two comical and inept vampire hunters who Fleming, not always so swift himself, easily dupes. But he also runs into a more diabolical and intelligent foe who nearly kills him.
LIFEBLOOD is actually better than the first novel because it is much funnier and the plot is less thin. Escott plays a key role in his investigation of Maureen's past and once again has to save Fleming's vampiric hide (which I guess is kind of a spoiler but you knew he would pull through, right?). Elrod again does a nice job of providing humor and creating entertaining characters. And Fleming continues to have an unfortunate proclivity for getting shot in the head or otherwise severely mangled. It all makes for good if not clean (blood stains) fun.
P. N. Elrod's series "The Vampire Files" kicks into high gear in Book Two, "Lifeblood." Nice guy vampire Jack Fleming is still getting used to being one of the undead, helping his friend Charles Escott with a few investigations and trying to build some sort of happy live with Bobbi Smythe. However, his "life" is suddenly facing a couple of major complications. First, a pair of fairly incompetent but nonetheless deadly vampire hunters are on his trail. They do not know that crosses and silver do not bother our hero, but there is no reason for Jack to tell them that. Second, he has finally had a response from the ads he has been placing for Maureen in newspapers around the country and meets Gaylen Dumont, an old woman who claims to be his beloved Maureen's younger sister. Yes, it seems that Maureen is the vampire who sired Jack, and now Gaylen wants a small favor from our hero.
"Lifeblood" ups the ante a bit from the first book in "The Vampire Files." Elrod has a much better feel for the bad guys (and gals) this time around that she did with the gangsters. The practical side of being a vampire has been pretty much worked out in terms of what parts of what everybody knows about vampires, courtesy of Bram Stoker's "Dracula," are actually true. But what I like is that the practical realities of being a vampire are central to the story Elrod is telling. There is also a harder edge to this story, with the more gruesome elements balancing the comic confrontations a bit more than in the previous volume. It is clear that we are in the beginning of a lengthy tale to be told and I appreciate a writer who wants to take their time in telling their tale well.
The second story, "Lifeblood", takes place just a few weeks after the first story finishes. Jack and Bobbi have settled into some kind of a relationship and Jack also spends some of his time helping Escott with his private investigations. However they soon decide that it would be wise for Jack to have some more of his home earth stored at Escott's place in case he has a problem with returning to his hotel room so Jack drives 'home' to Ohio to collect it. On the way he realises he is being followed and eventually has a showdown with the two people in the car - vampire hunters. They're obviously both rather loony and have read far too many vampire novels, thinking that they are safe from Jack with their garlic and crosses. He gives them a flat tyre and then continues on his way.
Once he's collected the earth he passes his parents' house to find the vampire hunters are there. He chases them off, then returns to Chicago but worried about his parents. Unfortunately he hasn't completely escaped the vampire hunters and they start to plague him in Chicago; he's worried about Bobbi and whether they will go after her. His attention is also taken by an old woman, Gaylen Dumont, who has responded to his adverts in the papers asking for Maureen to contact him (Maureen is his lost love and the vampire who made him). Gaylen is Maureen's sister, now 74 years old, and she gives Escott some information which might help him to find Maureen. However there's more to Gaylen than Jack initially realises and more danger to Bobbi than just from the vampire hunters. Jack is faced with an impossible situation, one that he realises Maureen found herself in, and it's only with the help of Escott his friend that he can survive at all.
This story is more gritty perhaps than the first as we have more emotional engagement from Jack. Being a vampire makes him mostly bombproof but it doesn't mean that he isn't extremely vulnerable because of the friendships he has made and because of his family. The story is always interesting with some great humorous touches and Jack as a character is always very appealing. I found that as a reader I really cared about what happened to him and wanted things to work out well for him. It's a great second book in the series and possibly could be read as a standalone book although it might seem rather complex. The ending leaves the question of Maureen still unresolved and this is dealt with more fully in the third book.
This second installment by PN Elrod continues the story of an Ace Reporter turned Vampire. When his girlfriend is held hostage, watch out.
But enough about the plot, which is pulp in the finest sense. The real reason to buy and savor this book is because it is a classic. PN Elrod's easy noir narration and stunning though sparce imagery set it apart from lesser novels. But more importantly this novel, though set in an earlier, gangster era, came out in the early nineties about the time when fantasy started modernizing from medieval to contemporary times, making this one of the series that spawned the birth of what we now call the urban fantasy genre.
It's also a fun read.
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