Move over Eddy,a new vampire's in town.

Twilight , a series of vampire books that seems to have reinvented the vampire as a prissy little sparkling British guy.  This “saga” has numerous spin-offs and (oh god) movies based on it.  So when I was browsing the Young Adult Section ( It should be called Vampire Romance and Teen Problems Section) looking for something that would cure my reading withdrawal (yeah, I’m book-a-holic , but at least I admit it) and I though I would be leaving Borders empty handed, that was until I saw a red bat on the cover of a book…

Now, when I picked Bloodline off the shelf and read the summary, I thought I was going to get something like Twilight(every copy should have a stake through its heart!) set in Saving Private Ryan. But when I quickly scanned the summary (Can’t judge a book by its cover…  But you can by the summary?) and found the name  Dracula written in red… I just had to check it out.  It didn’t take me that long to read the 200-some-page book (8 hours spread out into two days) and it was nothing like I expected.  The bad-guy was dating the good-guys sister, the “Demons of the Trench”, and the horrific twist at the end!  Anyway… here’s the summary…

When 19 year-old John Shaw is sent to the front-lines to decipher the German chatter he meets Quincy Harker, a man that appears to have super human, invincibility, and keeps going on one-man “raids” at night to the enemy trench.  John starts to think something strange is going on, especially when a soldier is found dead in “no mans land” drained of blood with a look of shear terror on his face.  John is sent home after he was hit in the shoulder by a piece of shrapnel and developed a fever, where nurse Mary  Steward develops strong feelings for John after reading his war journal.  Soon after, Harker arrives and Mary starts to grow suspicious him, especially when he starts to woo John’s sister, Lily.  Eventually, Harker’s true intentions become clear and Mary and John must stop him from fulfilling his destiny.

Now I thought this book was interesting, weird and, and… a little confusing.  I actually had to look up the plot of Bram Stoker’s Dracula to understand what a few of the characters have to do with the original story, but that was not enough to ruin this awesome book.    So if you’re a fan of the original Dracula wanted a great but unofficial sequel to it or are just looking for something to fuel your vampire crazed mind, then Bloodline is just the right book to sink your fangs into.

P.S. look for the sequel, Bloodline:Reckoning, at your local book store if you liked the first book, or if your sick of that Edward guy and want to read about a real vampire!