Blood Prophet: a Novel

by John Michael Curlovich

The gripping sequel to John Michael Curlovich's best-selling Blood of Kings , found 21-year-old Jamie Dunn desperately searching for his lover and mentor Danilo Semenkaru, a charismatic vampire who had initiated Jamie into a blood cult of ancient kings before vanishing. Jamie returns to Egypt, the place he last saw Danilo, and uncovers a plot by rival immortals to gain power over a fundamentalist Christian organization. Can he stop their plans and save his lover or will he have to choose between love and power? John Michael Curlovich is the author of Blood of Kings . Under the name Michael Paine, he has published Steel Ghosts , Cities of the Dead , Owl Light , and The Colors of Hell .

Genres: Vampires, Gay

First published April 1, 2006

About the author

Also writes under pseudonyms: Michael Paine and J.M.C. Blair.

Reviews

[Jimmy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was a lot better than The Blood of Kings! I really loved this book! I’m going to read others by “Michael Paine”. John Michael Curlovich is quite the activist!
Unfortunately, the publisher has filled it up with type-o after type-o, grammatical errors, and a lot of miss-spelled words, just like the first book.
It starts slow when Jamie takes in Adam. (The typical story of a teen coming out and is not wanted at home.) But once Jamie sends Adam home to his parents, the story really starts to get good. Jamie is in search of Danilo, and he is having dreams that he is on his throne, naked, wrapped in barbed wire. With Danilo gone, Jamie is a bit of a whore. Some of his tricks end up dead, and to make matters worse, the Christians are after him, claiming that Jamie is possessed by the devil. No one could be that good at playing the piano, to move people in such ways.
Jamie has his ideas of who is watching him, and murdering those who can help him find Danilo. Also, besides just working out who and what the Blood Prophet is, his family is murdered, and is left some photos and his father’s journals. Jamie has Paul to help him, who is desperate to see the truth.

[Liam Ostermann · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book is typical of so many that imagine the addition of gay characters makes a tired formulaic novel worth reading. It doesn't make it worth reading, it didn't even justify writing it. Mr. Curlovich tries to justify the banality of his story telling by dragging in as many 'gay' coming out cliches as possible including the impossibly cute teenager thrown out by religious fundamentalist parents whose church encourages anti-gay oppression, etc., etc. To show his seriousness Curlovich also throws in the story of Claude Vivier and rants about homophobia in the academic world because of disputes over identifying the tomb of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep as that of a 'gay' couple.

What is most offensive about all this ranting against homophobia is that I really think Curlovich imagines he is saying something important and even brave and daring. He is not. This is a silly story about vampires, full of grotesque editing and spelling bloopers. It is mediocre novel, banal even by the standards of most gay vampire novels.

I read this first back in 2008 and discovering it on the shelves on my local library gave it another look to see if my original negative thoughts should be revised. I think I was way to kind. This novel is drivel.

[Kate O'Hanlon · Rating 3 out of 5]

This books has probably the silliest, most internally incoherent mythology I've ever encountered. For added bonus it was poorly edited. Spelling and continuity error abound. Most irritating, it was a sequel, though this is not alluded to anywhere on the jacket or inside. I spent the first 50 or so pages trying to work out if the author had intentionally started out in medias res or if I was genuinely missing something.

That said it was a thought provoking and, more importantly, rather enthralling read.

[Mandy · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you are looking for a book that is rich, intense, arousing, chilling, thought provoking and addictive then this is the book for you. I read this book many years ago and have since read it a few times more. The gay love story is dark and heavy with a powerful plot.

If you are a grammar nazi and are out to pick faults in the books you read then this isn't the book for you.