Review: Vampire Dreams creates vampires of our nightmares
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 14, 2011
Robert Walker has a strong voice in all his books, but I thoroughly enjoyed his voice in this book, the first in his Bloodscreams series.  Abraham Stroud, retired cop, war hero, archeologist and much more, has inherited his uncle's home in Andover, Illinois.  Turns out, Stroud has psychic episodes which he believes are brought on by the steel plate in his head.When a small boy goes missing in his new hometown, Stroud gets a vision of the boy being killed.  It drives him to join the hunt for the child and ultimately puts Stroud in the crosshairs of a group of vampires who've slowly been building a power base in this small town.Creepy images of humans trapped in cocoons, to be drained of the blood when necessary, along with horrific transformations from human form to huge bat form make this a gruesome book, but Walker doesn't simply shock us. He draws a vivid image of the tragedies as well as plotting a well-crafted story about a man who is so driven by his humanity that he will risk his sanity to save others from the vicious vampires plaguing his town.I thoroughly enjoyed this book.  I much prefer my vampires ugly and beastly than handsome and tragic, so Walker's depiction of the evil bloodsuckers was spot-on for me.This book is very readable and enjoyable. I'd highly recommend it.