jjuliaagriss's review
2.0
I wanted... more?? It didn't really feel like an ending but more like an afterthought???????????
circus_of_damned's review
4.0
Really good if not alittle repetative of first novel in series. I liked that Coburn has come to relize and except himself. I like the relationship between Gil, Coburn, and Kayla. But I don't love the ending completelly. And the open ended uncertainty of it.
tahinikill's review
4.0
Too short but sweet nonetheless. Minus one star because every time I saw the cover I felt a burning desire to sing Taylor Swift songs. Otherwise quite a decent yarn... or the continuation of one... Now waiting on Double Dead #1.75 or #2.0... Bandaids don't fix bullet holes but Coburn might just for show; you live like that you live with ghosts...
christhedoll's review
4.0
It was way too short... How could you NOT love a vampire that has to save humanity from a zombie apocalypse?
daveversace's review
4.0
Novella length sequel to Wendig's vampire-in-zombieland gonzo gorefest Double Dead. Bad Blood revisits Coburn, the badarsed vampire who has reluctantly and unwittingly reclaimed a small portion of his humanity during the zombie apocalypse. Coburn and his companions Gil (the father of a dead girl whose blood could be the key to saving human life) and Creampuff (a dog) are searching San Francisco for a biomedical facility that can help them engineer a cure to the zombie plague.
What they don't figure on is a gang of coked-up cultists following a lunatic with the worst dietary plan in history, a pack of feral lost boys and girls and - worst of all - more monsters with a connection to Coburn's sordid past.
As a novella, Bad Blood has a narrower focus than Double Dead. It eschews the cross-country craziness of Double Dead to concentrate on a smaller cast in a single location. To that end, it loses a lot of the frenetic pace of the original, but don't worry - the madcap ultraviolence that made Double Dead so much fun remains in place. Wendig gives us a deeper look behind Coburn's mask of indifferent self-absorption, and while it's at best arguable as to whether he's a more sympathetic character than he was (he doesn't think so, for one) he is still a compelling monster. And he does love his dog, so there's that.
What they don't figure on is a gang of coked-up cultists following a lunatic with the worst dietary plan in history, a pack of feral lost boys and girls and - worst of all - more monsters with a connection to Coburn's sordid past.
As a novella, Bad Blood has a narrower focus than Double Dead. It eschews the cross-country craziness of Double Dead to concentrate on a smaller cast in a single location. To that end, it loses a lot of the frenetic pace of the original, but don't worry - the madcap ultraviolence that made Double Dead so much fun remains in place. Wendig gives us a deeper look behind Coburn's mask of indifferent self-absorption, and while it's at best arguable as to whether he's a more sympathetic character than he was (he doesn't think so, for one) he is still a compelling monster. And he does love his dog, so there's that.
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