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Black Stone Bay, Rhode Island, is a peacefully quiet town unless you count the young man who runs a very lucrative business turning the local college's female students into prostitutes and hiring them out to various men and parties. There is also the police officer who pulls over speeding cars to ticket the drivers, that is unless the driver is a young, female college student. These lucky girls are given a choice of getting the speeding ticket or letting the officer have his way with her. But, no matter what evil things have been going on in the community they're nothing until Jason Soulis moves into a large, rambling house that overlooks the sea. Jason has some mighty big plans for Black Stone Bay and it is all set to come to its apex on Halloween. You see, Jason is a vampire, but not the kind that needs to sleep during the day. A little sunshine does him no harm, he has no need for coffins, and he only has to feed on human blood once or twice during the week. Jason has his plans all right. First he needs to create another vampire like himself. College student/hooker Maggie Preston fits the bill. She is beautiful and all the men and boys in Black Stone Bay appreciate her good looks and Maggie knows it. While Jason starts to turn the town's residents into regular vampires, Maggie is going to be a special vampire just like Jason. This Halloween is going to be fun for all the kiddies living in this Rhode Island community but no one is going to enjoy it more than Jason Soulis. Author James A Moore is a great horror writer – much better than some of the bigger horror writers that readers are familiar with who are writing today. I've read a couple of Moore's books and have found them very enjoyable, if a bit on the violent side. Okay, his books have a lot of violence in them and are certainly not for the squeamish reader. BLOOD RED is especially gory. What I appreciate about the author's books is that the violence and sex is not gratuitous. There are reasons for all the gruesome scenes even though there were times that I just wanted to glide through a paragraph or two just to avoid reading them. In BLOOD RED we enter into a community with some very nice people and some not so nice people. In other words, a community just like where you live. But what makes this book different from some others of its genre is that Moore has no qualms in getting rid of some of the nice characters. In other words, don't get attached to anyone. If you like a good vampire novel that rivals others of its ilk give BLOOD RED a try. It's fast paced with plenty of action and scary spots, plus you'll learn some new things about vampires that I bet you never knew before.
Reviewed by Sharon Katz, October 2007
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