Review: Bloodtrail by David R Lewis
BLOODTRAIL by David R Lewis is smart written, thrilling. An easy to read but hard to get down because of the twists and plots you don’t expect. David R Lewis keeps surprising you. BLOODTRAIL is one of the most original vampire stories I have read, a real page turner till the end with lovable characters , realistic world-building and even some medical background info. You will love this one or hate it. I certainly loved it.
Tired of his life and weary of his sins, Joseph Casey places himself and his fate in the hands of medical researchers as an object of study. A four hundred-year-old Nosferati now in the power of mere humans, he asks for only one thing in return: help in finding his fourteen-year-old daughter, a young woman he has not seen in over one hundred fifty years, and who is the most bloodthirsty serial killer ever to walk the earth.
From a slave ship run aground in the Plymouth Colony during the hurricane of 1635 to the secret Kansas City laboratories of The Proteus Trust; from the sub-basement of Chicago’s Field Museum to the wilds of northern Arkansas; from the beauty of the Colorado high country to the legendary mountains of Austria, Bloodtrail is a novel of lost love, found redemption, surprising humor, and merciless brutality.
With so much in literature and film on the blood and gore of the vampire genre, Bloodtrail also deals with the humanity of the subject, combining history, science, myth, and legend with memorable characters and an inventive plot. Make no mistake. This remains a brutal story, but it is also funny, tragic, hopeful, loving and, most importantly, credible. More than just another vampire tale, it puts the genus under the microscope, explaining through medical science and DNA research how the Nosferati came to be, as it transports the vampire fable to a new level of realism and believability with solid characters and honest dialogue.
Ok I have to admit that during the medical research of Casey the facts and the overflow of witty comments from the characters where a little too much, that it for me disturbed the story. But never less during the complicated DNA explanations good to follow. What I don’t get is that there was no love/sex scene. Everything is described in detail the deeds, acts from the characters history to cruel to mention. But I missed the scene where the vampire Casey was showing his 400 years of experience where he was bragging about or a lovely scene about the birth of his twins.