In the Blood

Rating:
Summary: weak follow-up to Sunglasses
Review: Nancy Collins creates an intriguing complex world full of various occult creatures co-existing with normal humans, unfortunately the writing is rarely up to the task of painting a convincing atmosphere for these beings to inhabit, so that it gradually devolves into a series of routine gore-filled encounters. The dialogue is sometimes awkward, too. A disappointment after Sunglasses After Dark.

Rating:
Summary: This is one book where you find it hard to put it down.
Review: The chemistry behind the two main characters Palmer and Sonja Blue is incredible. Both characters help each other get through their personal pain while going on a joyride through hell and back. This book is definitely a page turner for Sonja Blue fans.

Rating:
Summary: Fabulous genre blend - private eye/vampire tale
Review: This is an absolutely roaring high-paced page turner with the one and only Sonja Blue! Sonja is a vampire for the feminist within any female reader. This is no sultry seduction-artist kind of babe vampire; she's badder than bad, tough as nails mentally and physically, and yet has an admirable code of personal honor at her core.

I first met Sonja in "Sunglasses After Dark", which is excellent. "In the Blood" is even better! Vampire and private eye team up when Sonja meets Palmer, a P.I. with "the sight". Love and partnership build, blossom, and morph into various flavors as the action relentlessly continues. With Palmers help, Sonja continues her hunt for her roots - the vampire who callously created her, and her human parents as well.

A great vampire book, with a flavor all its own.