Blade

Blade Series

by Mel Odom

The Day-Walker Born in terror, orphaned by violence. Neither human nor vampire, but both. Trained as an instrument of vengeance by a scientist who keeps him alive with ancient serums and secret technology. He uses his awesome powers to serve and protect the very species that despises and fears him--our own. Blade His lonely crusade against The Dark Ones has reached flash point. Humanity's primordial uneasy sleep, preparing to engage in an apocalyptic struggle in the nocturnal city streets. The weapons are fang and claw, shotgun and sword. The battlefield is the urban night. The game plan is the same for either Rule or die. Includes 8 pages of movie photos!

Genres: Horror, Fiction, Paranormal, Vampires, Fantasy

352 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published August 5, 1998

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

aka Jordan Gray

Mel Odom is a bestselling writer for hire for Wizards of the Coast's Forgotten Realms, Gold Eagle's Mack Bolan, and Pocket's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel book lines. His debut SF novel Lethal Interface made the Locus recommended list . The Rover was an Alyx Award winner. He has also written a scientific adventure of the high seas set in the 19th century entitled Hunters of the Dark Sea. He lives in Oklahoma.

Reviews

[Paxton Holley]

This was an excellent adaptation of the movie. It added some more context to some of the characters, and had a slightly different epilogue than the movie. And I would say the change in the book to the epilogue makes it even better.

[Nathan]

Whoa. Quite a different epilogue than in the film.

[Brandon Bundy]

I really enjoyed starting Blade. I had a lot of fun with him making his way through the vampire hordes so smoothly. Once he started dragging Karen Jansen around I was less thrilled, but nevertheless found the story to still be at a good place all in all. That she manages to cure herself is most impressive. I enjoyed Deacon Frost as an antagonist, mostly up until the LaMagra maneuver at the end.

I began to lose some interest around the midway to end point of the novel, though perhaps because I kept being interrupted before I could read very far at a time. I think the author chose a few outs with his description(ie Quinn smiled evilly) at times but on the whole there weren't really any mistakes that I remember coming across.

Since I've already seen the movie when I was younger I knew that Blade's mother would survive in some capacity, but I'd forgotten just what role she actually fulfilled for Frost and to hinder Blade himself.

The end with Whistler being a vampire messing around in Russia was either something I'd also forgotten about or else that was left to the book, and as a result was a surprise. I was expecting a preview of the new vampire type as seen in Blade 2.

In closing, not the best book I've read this year or the last, but the best book I've read in the past few months. I may proceed to Blade: Trinity after this, as I don't know if a novel was ever written for the second film.

[David Crane]

A very interesting and detailed novelization of the famous vampire movie "Blade" based on the comic book character who is half human and half vampire. It's hard to determine which is more cinematic, the book or the movie, because both of them compliment each other nicely. The novelization is done is detailed, yet pleasantly loving style that is both engrossing and easy to read. No deep philosophy here, just pure action adventure horror tale from start to finish. Something to read on a subway, bus or a beach, this book can be enjoyed anywhere. The Blade is sharp!

[Leben Norrie]

I really like novelizations of films, and this was no exception. I wasn’t expecting much when I started it, but found myself really looking forward to my reading time (metro trips to and from work)

This novel was written off the original screen play so there are some slight differences in the story (very minor - except the epilogue is completely different and better than the film)

The book is very simply written but throws you headlong into the action sequences and keeps you interested in between. I’d definitely recommend this book to anyone look for some light, good fun, vampire book.

[Amy Sjoquist]

Not a bad writer, but there wasn't much in it that wasn't in the movie, just some insight into what they were thinking and feeling.