Every Last Drop

By Charlie Huston

A vampire book found in the mystery section of the library. This is an intriguing, dark, compelling book about a vampire and his world. A world that sits right beside Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn in New York state with living human beings (read blood for the taking) and how they negotiate that tension. Huston realistically and painlessly creates a whole vampire reality without distracting from the story at hand (sometimes a story gets lost in the need to share all the background about the politics or some new world that the reader must grasp in order to follow the story). Compelling from the beginning, for me mostly because of the misenthropic vampire who takes lead in the story. A kind of anti-hero, a dirty Harry with really sharp teeth.

He weaves a good story. I really don't want to reveal much about it except note that it looks like this is the fourth in a series. Which is kind of a bummer for me as I now feel I have knowledge that may taint my later reading of the first few books in the series. But it is what it is.

If you have any interest in vampire stories this is one of the most interesting and surprising ones I have read. It is well written, although if you are afraid of a few cuss words you would do best to avoid this book. It deals with heavy themes that are, in the end, about the darkest reaches of the human experience.

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