Review: Van Helsing meets Indiana Jones
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 21, 2011
You may have heard of the Jersey Devil, but have you heard of the Andover Devil? In the small town of Andover Illinois, Dr. Abraham Stroud has returned to his childhood home after his grandfathers death to live a quiet peaceful life in his grandfathers mansion, Stroud Manse. Dr. Stroud a former Chicago Police Officer doesn't realize how much he doesn't know about his late grandfather or Great Grandfather, or the town of Andover and nearby Spoon River. Dr. Stroud will soon learn after two boys come up missing in the town and a car ends up in the Spoon river, with one body found and one missing that the towns folks are not trusting of him or his late grandfather and that some in the town are hiding the truth about what really is happening. It will take every bit of the training Dr. Stroud received as a anthropologist, archeologist and his years as a detective to uncover the mystery known as the Andover Devil and to find out what really caused his grandfathers death.The first of 4 books in the Blood Screams series by Robert. Walker Aka Geoffrey Caine, this book is not your typical Vampire romance novel that is so popular right now, even though that is what the cover might suggest. Dr. Stroud is more like Bram Stokers Van Helsing than it is an Ann Rice novel. It character Abraham Stroud and the story line do share some of the same attributes as the Charlene Harris Southern Vampire series, but this book was written ten year before the release of Dead until Dark.In this book Dr. Stroud has some psychic powers that are attributed to his injury he suffered in the Vietnam War, which like Sookie Stackhouse can be good and bad. Both Dr. Stroud and Sookie lose their parents and are raised by a grandparent The Vampires in the novel also have a substitute for straight human blood as do the vampires in the Southern Vampire series, but that is where the similarities ends.If you're a fan of a horror and tales of vampires you will enjoy this book, and don't forget it doesn't end here there are 3 more books so far in the Abraham Stroud series. So at 2.99 give it a shot it's cheaper than some of the new releases out and a better story to sink your fangs in too.