Half the Blood of Brooklyn
by Charlie Huston
Published by Del Rey Books
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Reviewed by Christina Smith
I’ve never been a fan of the whole vampire genre. In the past, I’ve tried to read a few different authors, thinking maybe it was just the writing that wasn’t grabbing me. After many books, I still had nothing that got my attention. Nothing that screamed, “ Come Read Me!” So when picking up Charlie Huston’s Half the Blood of Brooklyn, I did so with caution.
In the opening of this third installment of the Joe Pitt Casebooks, we find Joe in a place that he really doesn’t want to be, but knows he has no choice. He has to do what his boss tells him, or he faces the only thing he really fears: the sun–his death. Amid all of the blood, chaos, dismemberments and violence, we find that Joe really does have a heart–although throughout the book, he acts like he doesn’t really care about anything around him. We find out that there is one person he does care about, one person that he is willing to do almost anything for and tries to do the impossible for.
We also get to see how Joe deals with his boss, a midget vampyre who has come to terms with his “dying,” a rabbi, and in general, a world who wants him dead. I have to say that one of my favorite parts was when Joe met Stretch, the midget vampyre, for the first time. This is the first of his books I’ve read, and I look forward to reading the others and the beginning of Joe’s life as a vampyre.
Armchair Interviews says: Good series for Sci-Fi fans.