Review: You'll "Curse" yourself for "Passing" this up!  #badwordplay
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 31, 2014
I really like this vampire renaissance that has been happening lately.  After vampires were all but ruined by Twilight the vampire, Shirtless Dog-Faced Boy, and Mannequin 3: Kristen Stewart, we have been getting books like The Strain, that make vampires terrifying again.  Which is how they are SUPPOSED to be!  They murder people for food, or at the very least, turn their victim into one of them.  And they NEVER sparkle!(deep breath)Anyway, this book gets back to what The Strain has been very successful in doing: Grounding vampires back in reality, and turning them back into monsters.  But I also kind of get a “Walking Dead” vibe as well (both the comic, and TV show).  The Walking Dead is definitely about zombies, but it’s not ONLY about zombies.  There are other storylines, and other things for the characters to worry about.  There are several plotlines through A Passing Curse, and a couple of times those other plots took center stage, and it catches you off-guard when the whole vampire thing jumps right back, aiming for your jugular (pretty hilarious joke I just made, right?)All in all, I thought this was a very engaging and enjoyable read.  I don’t think I can categorize it as strictly a vampire/horror novel, or strictly a thriller/mystery/police procedural  novel, it’s a little bit of both.  The two sides of this book come together, to make a very interesting mashup of the two.  If they made a CSI: Transylvania, or Law & Order: Exsanguination Victims Unit, then this book… would definitely be better than those shows, honestly.