Comments on: REVIEW: Blood Drive by Jeanne C. Stein

By: Jeanne C. Stein

Jeanne C. Stein — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:13:50 +0000

I may be too late in responding to Jia’s last comment–the holidays have a habit of sneaking up on me and I’ve just been crazy trying to catch up. I don’t have a steady romantic interest for Anna yet. I have it in the back of my mind that she may end up with David, her partner, but since he’s human, she may have the same problems with him that she has with Max. The living and the undead have definite relationship obstacles to overcome! I will introduce a new potential in the fourth book–another vamp this time, which may work out a little better–

Happy Holidays– Jeanne

By: Jia

Jia — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:03:44 +0000

The subplot is minor in Blood Drive but I suspect this is an instance of the subplot developing over the course of multiple books. Based on the description of the next book, Max plays a more prominent role.

By: Jane

Jane — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:59:03 +0000

I didn’t realize that there was any romantic subplot in these books so I think I’ll pick them up.

By: Jia

Jia — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:55:50 +0000

I think Jeanne Stein has been blessed by the cover art fairy. The Anna Strong novels all have lovely covers.

By: Kalen Hughes

Kalen Hughes — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:50:59 +0000

Can I just gush about the cover? Wow. It’s been a long time since a cover made me want to pick up a book.

By: celeber

celeber — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:30:30 +0000

I read this book a few months back and loved it. It was a nice break from the rest of the vamp stuff out there. I can get pretty vamped out, but I highly recommend this book. It was a lot of fun.

By: Jia

Jia — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:16:44 +0000

LesleyW: I thought Anna’s coping, or lack thereof, was well done too. And it certainly is refreshing to read an urban fantasy in which a male character/potential love interest doesn’t give the heroine free reign all the time. It’s give and take, just like it is in real life.

By: LesleyW

LesleyW — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:13:07 +0000

I very much enjoyed Blood Drive.

It’s funny you should mention the first person present tense, as I found this harder to get into in the first book – The Becoming.

The thing I liked about Blood Drive, was a lot of it was Anna coming to terms with her vampirism. Through a lot of the book I think she ‘thinks’ she’s coping and has made the transition, but in fact she hasn’t.
And I liked Frey because he didn’t let her have her own way all the time. :)

By: Jia

Jia — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:08:30 +0000

I’m pretty vampired-out myself but this goes to show that sometimes all it takes is the right story to make it interesting again. It helps that Anna never whines or broods about her circumstances or throws herself a pity party. Most of her internal turmoil stems from her trying to keep both human and inhuman lives separate — how long can she keep the fact that she’s a vampire a secret, what’s going to happen when she no longer can do that, and what is she going to do when that day comes? That’s why I thought the storyline with the niece was interesting, because Anna finding the niece is essentially Anna finding someone to take her role as daughter to her parents.

By: Anji

Anji — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:52:10 +0000

This sounds really interesting, and though I’m pretty vampired-out, I may just give this one a try.

Thanks for the review, Jia!

By: Jeanne C. Stein

Jeanne C. Stein — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:41:00 +0000

Thank you, Jia, both for reviewing my book and liking it! I appreciate the number of books out there in the Urban Fantasy genre. I’m glad your friend, Jane, sent you one of mine.

Next month, Barnes and Noble will be discussing my books on their Paranormal/Urban Fantasy online book club. Please stop in if you can and say hello.

Best regards, Jeanne