Blood Price (BLOOD SERIES)
by Tanya Huff
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Author: Tanya HuffEdition: Paperback
Published: 2007-09-25
ISBN: 0756405017
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: DAW
Book Reviews of Blood Price (BLOOD SERIES)
Book Review: Vicki Nelson, PI, teams up with a most unusual partner
Summary: 4 Stars
In Blood Price, the first in Tanya Huff's Blood books, we meet tough-girl Vicki Nelson, who's left the Toronto police force due to failing eyesight, as she hunts a demonic killer terrorizing the streets of Toronto. Along the way, she runs into 450-year-old Henry Fitzroy, the bastard son of Henry VIII, who also happens to be a vampire. The two team up to solve supernatural cases over the next books.
To be honest, I'd never heard of the Blood books before learning about (and becoming dangerously addicted to) the Canadian TV series Blood Ties, based on Huff's Blood books. The two-part pilot, Blood Price, is a stellar condensed version of Blood Price, although naturally, changes were made.
I've read my fair share of vampire novels over the years, including brushes with Anne Rice, Charlaine Harris, Jennifer Colt, and Susan Garrett (Forever Knight), so I'm no stranger to the genre. Huff makes modern-day Toronto come alive, even more so when viewed through the lens of a protagonist who's lived for over 400 years. The historical sidenotes and various flashbacks are well-fleshed out, although Henry's character seemed less solid than Vicki's(kudos to Kyle Schmid for a small-screen Henry that amply makes up for these shortcomings). Huff's take on the vampire mythos both adds and subtracts (Henry's religious, so no problem with religious symbols, and he's able to see his reflection in mirrors).
Much like her small-screen counterpart (played by Christina Cox), Vicki is a take-no-nonsense, physical, don't-pity-me ex-cop who at first has difficulty coming to grips with the fact that her new partner is a vampire who writes lurid romance novels under the pen name Elizabeth. Her on-again, off-again romance with fellow Torontonian cop Mick Celluci becomes complicated by the appearance of Henry, who is also attracted to Viki.
Many battles in the name of good and evil ensue, and Huff's pacing and well-written action scenes carry Blood Price along at a snappy, pageturning pace. The book has held up well since its original 1991 publication; the only things that hint as to its age are a lack of cell phones, Internet, and faxes. This is the TV-tie-in edition, although it appears to be the original version of Blood Price and not the TV adaptation. Fans of the TV show will definitely want to read the original source for many of the plots and characters in their favorite TV shows.
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