Bitchery reader Shannon cracked me up with this one:
My mom was telling me about a book she didn’t finish last night. She
said it had something to do with a vampire who used to be a priest,
but he got bitten by a master vampire, so then he and the heroine
have to go find said master vampire and kill him. My mom says the
title was Bloodlust, but she can’t remember the author and a google
search hasn’t proved all that helpful.Anyway, this is significant because my mom has read and liked Cassie
Edwards books, and this vampire priest book was a DNF for her. I want
to find and read it for myself, because I am morbidly curious about a
book that is, if we judge my mom’s taste in books, worse than Cassie Edwards.
So! What is this book? Was it any good? Would a reader who digs the Cassie Edwards find it abhorrent because it’s good or it’s a different kind of bad? The possibilities of building a scale of book quality with Cassie Edwards as the lowest point just cracks me up.
Went to Amazon, but most of the books I saw with that title were either YA or (I think, I’m at work, BTW) erotic novels.
The only one I’ve come up with so far that has a priest and a vampire is The Priest of Blood, by Douglas Clegg.
It’s a horror novel. Not sure if it has any sort of romance in it.
Give Blood Lust by Ron Dee a try. He was a priest.
I dunno what the book is, but I do know that I have never read Cassie Edwards but I feel this horrid compulsion to flit over to Amazon and buy one of her books…I’m guessing that reading her would be likened to Rubbernecking a Romance Novel.
He’s not a bad writer by any means but F Paul Wilson has a novel, Midnight Mass with a master vampire/priest. This one is described as over the top:
The first Kerrelyn Sparks novel, How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire (http://www.amazon.com/Marry-Millionaire-Vampire-Love-Stake/dp/0060751967/ref=sr_1_1/104-0340170-4992746?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193091528&sr=1-1) has a hero who was a monk before being bitten. It’s a comedy, though, so I’m not sure it’s what you’re looking for.
Could it be Dawn Thompson’s BLOOD MOON? Not a priest, but a vicar.
I’m with Maggie.
Ron Dee’s Blood Lust has a mainstream preacher whose wife is killed by the vamp, and he has to team up with a wild-eyed pentacostal preacher (who lost his family and is later bitten) and a college student whose parents were killed.
It was a pretty good horror novel and not at all a romance.
I’ll check with my mom tomorrow, but it looks to me like it might be Meljean’s pick. I know Mom belongs to the Love Spell book club, and that seems like the only suggestion that would have been featured there. It also really does look like an awful book, judging from the plot summary. So now I’m more curious than ever about experiencing the horrors that might await me if I try and read it.
I’m intrigued by this comment in the Amazon reviews for Blood Moon…
“Bedroom scenes are rare since the main couple has no idea what any child they conceive may inherit. Therefore, men will totally enjoy this book as much as women will.”
….
Because men don’t enjoy reading sex scenes? *is confused* 😉
All the guys I know do. *snigger*
Well, I know the lack of bedroom scenes certainly doesn’t make me all that eager to read it… along with everything else.
” “Bedroom scenes are rare since the main couple has no idea what any child they conceive may inherit. Therefore, men will totally enjoy this book as much as women will.â€
Because men don’t enjoy reading sex scenes? *is confused*”
I don’t know, I catch my hubby flipping through my romance books looking for the “bedroom scenes”! 😉
That book quality scale: I’m thinking CE on one end and Nora at the top. The standards in between could be the source of much amusement (or possible hair-pulling).