Don’t you love it when you go to the store for one thing and completely walk out with another?  This is what happened to me last week while in Borders.  I went there with a buy one get one free coupon, one that I planned on using to buy two zombie books, ones which would hopefully be good enough to review for my webpage, ones which I could actually finish without being disgusted that a publisher had actually put the books in print.  I even had two titles in mind, titles that I had looked at on previous ventures into the bookstore and thought sounded interesting.  While looking at these two books, however, my eyes stumbled upon another, one called Blood Grove by Alex Bledsoe.  Like the zombie books this one wasn’t very thick and had been printed in a larger, trade paperback format, one that allows for a higher price, something which has really started to bug

me with the zombie book since most of them are crap.  Blood Grove, however, wasn’t being offered by one of those publishers that were churning out zombie books by the dozen and instead had been published by Tor, a major publisher of both hardback and paperback novels.

Blood Grove tells the story of Baron Rudolfo Zginski, a vampire that was staked in Wales in 1915 but then reawaked in 1975 after his body is brought to Memphis Tennessee for an autopsy.  Realizing much has changed since his staking,

Zginski carefully explores this new world until he comes upon a small group of modern vampires, ones who live in fear of the outside world due to all the myths learned from the movies, something which Zginski isn’t going to tolerate for long, but does use to his advantage to gain power over the small group.