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Autumn 2005 Review:

Book Cover Bloodline

Kate Cary

Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers

© 2005

    The book that I read was about a man in the war that met his childhood friend in a military hospital in Germany. The main character, Captain Quincey Harker, recognizes an old childhood friend that is brought in on a hospital gurney with the most extensive amount of wounds. Whilst his friend was in the emergency room he had to do a list of military CoOps missions that involve demons, vampires, and werewolves. He has to save his friend, Lieutenant John Shaw, from a long existing amount of ailments that will cause his condition to worsen.

    The book Bloodline was both extravagant and mostly interesting to me because of the action and the suspense. This action packed history meets sci-fi will have most drop their jaw.

      This book would mainly be intended for High School students but, depending on the maturity level of the reader, maybe some middle school students. Most of the things in this book you may not want to believe but, if you have a good imagination, it’ll put you in an unbelievable fiction euphoria. The characters standard to any story are pretty much your standard every day people that try to do everything by the book, but sometimes slip a little off the pages. This book, Bloodline, is kind of almost like the NECROSCOPE books because of the flashbacks into the time and how the writing of the story line and how the setting and plot are planned so precise and so action filled.

~ Mat Novak, grade 11, Trumbull County Career and Technical Center

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