{"id":1092,"date":"2025-02-02T13:42:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T20:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/2025\/02\/02\/bloodsucker-county-by-jeff-strand-5-5\/"},"modified":"2025-02-02T13:42:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T20:42:33","slug":"bloodsucker-county-by-jeff-strand-5-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/2025\/02\/02\/bloodsucker-county-by-jeff-strand-5-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloodsucker County by Jeff Strand \u2013 5\/5"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Few authors hold enough power over me to get me to stop reading a book, especially at 90% finished, just to start another book. Jeff Strand<\/a> is one of them authors. Bloodsucker County was released earlier this week, forcing me to slap a bookmark in Interview with the Devil: Epoch for the time being. Sadly, I finished Bloodsucker County within a few days. I\u2019m sad because I was hoping to spend at least a couple weeks within the apocryphal world of Strand\u2019s latest book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is not your typical vampire novel. In fact, one could argue these monsters only share fleeting glimpse of one of the world\u2019s oldest monster legends. Society as we know it has fallen in the wake of these vile monsters that have severely reduced the human population. There is one county that has managed to survive by laying low and keeping out of the way. That is until a stranger shows up one day and becomes the subject of one\u2019s just come-of-age teen\u2019s empathy. Bill arrives in the county barely alive, and Lance, our protagonist, takes him in to the ever-fading safety and security of their small community. As the family takes in this wounded man, thus begins the roller coaster journey of survival filled with horror, gore and the edgy Strandian humor we all crave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is different about this particular novel for me is that my name gets to be a character in the book, thanks to my joining Jeff\u2019s Patreon page<\/a>. Jeff warned us who qualified that our plight would not be great. In fact, he seemed to take pleasure in telling us that we would probably die. Horribly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My character is described as being \u201cemaciated and covered with sores and bruises. His greasy hair hung to his knees, and his beard was so long that it almost reached his exposed\u2026\u201d You\u2019ll have to read it for yourself to find out exactly what was exposed. Lance didn\u2019t want to \u201cfight back against a man in such poor physical shape.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the way, if you are a big Strand fan, and would like more of him, be sure to check out his Patreon page. He provides us with daily insights and short stories you just won\u2019t get elsewhere including a story that gets a chapter released every Wednesday called Catch and Release. This is a new story about George and Lou from his Wolf Hunt trilogy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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