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    Near Death: Book II in the Power of the Blood World

    By Nancy Kilpatrick

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    Near Death is the second book in the Power of the Blood world.

    David Lyle Hardwick was a poet who lived well over a century ago. Now, he is an undead poet, residing in Manchester, England, surviving during the day in the basement of his ancestors’ stately home. He sleeps in a coffin, acting out the role of vampire. This sensitive yet unholy creature would continue his tormented existence but one night a beautiful girl named Zero appears with a stake in hand aimed at his heart. Fortunately for David, the drug-addled New Yorker fails. But now he’s left with a complex puzzle: who sent her to murder him, and why?

    Zero can’t help him much—she’s addicted to heroin and has even bigger problems. Still, she falls for his seductive vampire power and together they set out in search of his enemies, who are not necessarily what they seem.
    Both David and Zero are changing, but maybe not for the better. When a vampire’s craving for blood mixes with passion and a lust for revenge, he becomes Nosferatu. And once that fury is unleashed, Zero quickly realizes that no one is safe, not mortal, not immortal, and especially not her!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCrossroad Press
    Release dateJul 10, 2011
    ISBN9781466019492
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    Near Death: Book II in the Power of the Blood World
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    Nancy Kilpatrick

    Bestselling author Nancy Kilpatrick has published 14 novels, over 125 short stories, and has edited 8 anthologies. Her series include The Darker Passions, the Power of the Blood and As One Dead. Winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for best mystery story, her work of horror has also been a Bram Stoker Aurora Award finalist many times. For over 25 years, Nancy has been involved with the goth scene. She and her black cat Bella make their home in Montreal.

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    • 3/5
      Starts out slow, with a human drug-addicted American prostitute trekking to England to stake a vampire she's never met named David Hardwick. He's an effete, suffering, byronic, poet-spouting wimp who has retreated from life for the last 40 years while he nurses a broken heart from a lost love. He thwarts her half-hearted attempt, and the two begin a troubled relationship based on mutual needs for blood, security, and the knowledge the girl has about who is trying to kill David.Eventually he grows a spine and things pick up in the second half, as the two hookup and try to fight back against the woman who broke the vamp's heart 40 years ago. I thought the second half of the story was pretty engaging, but it took me a long time to warm up to either character. And I never did understand the attraction the vamp felt towards this damaged, uneducated, unsophisticated young prostitute. I did like the vampire community the author introduced toward the end of the novel, and if the book had been more about them, I might have liked it better.
    • 1/5
      I like the Bryon poetry. But over all crude and boring.