Vampires bloody everywhere.
Or bloody vampires everywhere. After Kell gets done with them, anyway.
In the second book of this Gemmellesque homage trilogy Kell is still looking to rescue his granddaughter. Saark is still attempting to be able to just have a good time – with the problem that almost anyone he runs into wants to kill or eat him. Including the evil vampire sisters on the cover. They are happy to do this to Kell, too, though – happy to share the evil slaying around.
The things (and people) they have done in the past continue to come back to haunt them. One of whom of course has his granddaughter.
There’s a wild card force with the addition of another ancient race, or at least one member of.
Once you get some way into this you can see where the obvious trilogitis it has will leave it. However, it doesn’t hide this fact, with Book 2 stamped on it.
Apart from that, it is as good as the first book.
3.5 out of 5
