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Bloodline Kate Cary Razorbill, $16.99, 336 pages, ISBN: 1595140123 reviewed by Barry Hunter Kate Cary has taken Stoker's DRACULA and moved it into a twentieth century storyline that begins in the muddy trenches of World War I and has a very interesting showdown in Dracula's Castle. John Shaw returns from the war with "trench fever" and has terrible nightmares about the war and his commander, Quincy Harker. Mary Seward, who is his nurse and becomes dear to his heart as he recovers, reads John's journal. John's sister Lily has been running the estate while John was at war and has been joined by Quincy Harker who has returned from the war and is working for the Foreign Office. When John is discharged from the hospital, he is told about the Harker Legacy, Van Helsing, and Count Dracula from Mary's father. Harker and Lily depart suddenly for Transylvania and plan to have their wedding there. John and Mary follow and what they find when they arrive makes for some interesting reading. Kate Cary has created a well-crafted novel with interesting characters and incorporated the new with the old in what I can only hope is the first in a new vampire series. If not, it is still a delightful find in the current crop of vampire novels. reviewed by Jim Brock. Razorbill is a division of the Penguin Young Readers Group and BLOODLINE is recommended for ages 12 and up. Well, I am several decades over that recommendation and I enjoyed it immensely. The year is 1916 and the world is at war. Young British lieutenant John Shaw has returned from that war suffering from what appears to be "trench fever". His nightmares center on his commanding officer, Captain Quincy Harker and his bloody exploits at the front. While Mary Seward, daughter of a certain Dr. Seward, is nursing Shaw, Quincy Harker comes to England and begins romancing Shaw's sister, Lily. John, Mary, Quincy and Lily eventually wind up in Transylvania at Castle Dracula where all the connections to the past become clear and their true origins and natures are revealed. While Dracula may have been destroyed, all the evil of his BLOODLINE has not. Kate Cory has done an excellent job continuing that line and has produced a story worthy of reading by the young – and even us oldsters, too.
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Bloodline
Kate Cary
Razorbill, $16.99, 336 pages, ISBN: 1595140123

reviewed by Barry Hunter

Kate Cary has taken Stoker's DRACULA and moved it into a twentieth century storyline that begins in the muddy trenches of World War I and has a very interesting showdown in Dracula's Castle.

John Shaw returns from the war with "trench fever" and has terrible nightmares about the war and his commander, Quincy Harker. Mary Seward, who is his nurse and becomes dear to his heart as he recovers, reads John's journal. John's sister Lily has been running the estate while John was at war and has been joined by Quincy Harker who has returned from the war and is working for the Foreign Office.

When John is discharged from the hospital, he is told about the Harker Legacy, Van Helsing, and Count Dracula from Mary's father. Harker and Lily depart suddenly for Transylvania and plan to have their wedding there. John and Mary follow and what they find when they arrive makes for some interesting reading.

Kate Cary has created a well-crafted novel with interesting characters and incorporated the new with the old in what I can only hope is the first in a new vampire series. If not, it is still a delightful find in the current crop of vampire novels.

reviewed by Jim Brock.

Razorbill is a division of the Penguin Young Readers Group and BLOODLINE is recommended for ages 12 and up. Well, I am several decades over that recommendation and I enjoyed it immensely.

The year is 1916 and the world is at war. Young British lieutenant John Shaw has returned from that war suffering from what appears to be "trench fever". His nightmares center on his commanding officer, Captain Quincy Harker and his bloody exploits at the front. While Mary Seward, daughter of a certain Dr. Seward, is nursing Shaw, Quincy Harker comes to England and begins romancing Shaw's sister, Lily.

John, Mary, Quincy and Lily eventually wind up in Transylvania at Castle Dracula where all the connections to the past become clear and their true origins and natures are revealed. While Dracula may have been destroyed, all the evil of his BLOODLINE has not. Kate Cory has done an excellent job continuing that line and has produced a story worthy of reading by the young – and even us oldsters, too.

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