Review: TRULY TERRIFYING- TRULY BRILLIANT
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 3, 2012
"The Blood Chronicles is a series of three books chronicling the life of one family as they struggle to survive while an unimaginable evil pursues them relentlessly. Book one is Born of Blood which will be released in March of 2012.In, BORN OF BLOOD, Jesse Banks, unknowingly, steps in the middle of a battle between good and evil that has raged on for generations. As the danger escalates she begins to put the pieces of her clouded past together.Jesse discovers the truth about her ancestors and the horror that relentlessly pursued them; a horror that now pursues her. For her to survive she must join the fight. But the immortal monster that stalks her has other, more sinister, plans and will stop at nothing to see those plans accomplished. Can Jesse escape a fate worse than death and defeat an age old evil?"Jesse Banks is such an engaging character- she is so very well drawn- and the earie atmosphere of this superb novel literally seeps off the page and into the reader's mind. The horror genre is one which can lend itself to cliche very easily.  S.B. Knight has proven to be a uniquely original writer.  This is a very original and very gripping read. As the reader emotionally links to Jesse Banks, thanks to the superb prose, the terror which has plagued her family for generations becomes so very real and terrifying.Mr. Knight has managed to also include an aspect of the detective/mystery novel into BORN OF BLOOD, as Jesse strives to learn the truth about her family and it's horrific past.  As each new clue is uncovered, the reader is drawn even closer to Jesse. I knew from the beginning that I would love this book as it took hold of me right away, and as a true tribute- as I read the book last night (after watching a 5 hr Hockey Game!!! Rangers won!!) I found that my plan to read another chapter or two dissolved into an inability to stop! I simply had to know what would happen next- learn more about an ancient evil, why Jesse's family was chosen for it's wrath - and without giving away spoilers, the answers left me EAGERLY awaiting the next book by a major talent- named S.B. Knight!!A JAMES MASON COMMUNITY BOOK CLUB MUST READ!RICHARD FRIEDMANFOUNDER/MODERATORTHE JAMES MASON COMMUNITY BOOK CLUB