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Blood Dawn
Felicia is infected. She has awakened to a blood-red mindscape. Fort Collins, Colorado, has suffered a grisly apocalyptic event, and all hell is breaking loose outside her Old Town store. Felicia’s lover, her coworkers, and her customers are among a horde of reanimated bodies. But she’s stuck inside a store room and stricken by a terrible alien hunger. When fate intervenes—and Rachel’s father Michael restores her humanity—Felicia finds that she has retained a crimson shadow of what was inside her.
As Felicia struggles to understand her new identity in the midst of an ongoing invasion, she will soon find herself wielding incomprehensible power. Meanwhile, the throngs of resurrected bodies have a new strategy: Destroy at all costs.
Join both Felicia and Rachel for the conclusion of the BLOOD saga!
As Felicia struggles to understand her new identity in the midst of an ongoing invasion, she will soon find herself wielding incomprehensible power. Meanwhile, the throngs of resurrected bodies have a new strategy: Destroy at all costs.
Join both Felicia and Rachel for the conclusion of the BLOOD saga!
256 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 27, 2017
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About the author
Jason Bovberg
8 books122 followersJason Bovberg is the author of Tessa Goes Down, Loser Baby, the Blood trilogy (Blood Red, Draw Blood, and Blood Dawn), and The Naked Dame. He is the founder of Dark Highway Press, which published Robert Devereaux’s controversial Santa Steps Out, as well as the highly acclaimed weird-western anthology Skull Full of Spurs. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, with his wife Barb, his daughters Harper and Sophie, and his canines Rocky and Rango. You can find him online at www.jasonbovberg.com.
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May 16, 2017
The Blood Trilogy is one of the better zombie novel stories I've read in the past ten years. I originally picked it up when I was still with Permuted Press and said company was still primarily known for producing fiction related to the cannibalistic undead. It was a fresh take on that genre because the "zombies" in question were not just carbon copies of George Romero's creatures. They were inscrutable "red light" aliens who possessed humans and animated them for reasons unknown as only those with a specific blood type were immune.
The third volume in the trilogy is noteworthy as it shifts perspective from the protagonist of the first two books to a lesbian college student named Felicia who provides an inside look into the horrors of becoming infected as well as, perhaps, a means of defeating the horrors afflicting the human race. I was initially rather off-put by this change but swiftly grew to like the Felicia character and appreciate how she played off of Rachel once she united with her group.
Jason Bovberg doesn't attempt to draw out his story and at the end of Blood Dawn, we get a conclusive end to the red light aliens' story. Honestly, I felt the ending was a little too pat and happy for such a gruesome horror novel trilogy. I was fully expecting something approaching a total party kill or the human race being left as a shambled ruin of its former self. However, the story's emotional beats weren't bad and there was certainly a horrific cost to the whole ordeal.
I'm particularly fond of Jason Bovberg's "Blood Aliens" which are both animated corpses as well as creatures from another world. They become smarter and more capable the longer they are on Earth with their threat level increasing accordingly. I also love their peculiar and bizarre weakness to certain blood types. They remain mostly inscrutable without but due to their bond with one of the heroines, we finally get some insight into their motives.
The characterization of the protagonists is really where the books shine as they avoid the trap of characters getting too used to their circumstances. Everyone is traumatized by the horror around them, miserable, and on the verge of panic with even the best barely keeping it together. I also like how it's made clear all of these people had fairly happy lives before the events changed them irrevocably. The horror of the red light aliens and their actions as well as their hostility only grows throughout the book, keeping them a threat right to the end.
Do I have any criticism? I think the ending might have been a little too pat after such a horrible long ordeal. Then again, if the author ever wants to do a sequel trilogy or follow up the characters then leaving some parts of the Earth intact is a good idea. Besides, if anyone deserves a bit of respite it's this group as the author has truly put them through hell.
In conclusion, I recommend this horror novel to fans of the zombie genre who'd like something a little different. I also think fans of Stephen King will appreciate Jason Bovberg's style of focusing on the mundane before transitioning to the nightmarish.
8/10
The third volume in the trilogy is noteworthy as it shifts perspective from the protagonist of the first two books to a lesbian college student named Felicia who provides an inside look into the horrors of becoming infected as well as, perhaps, a means of defeating the horrors afflicting the human race. I was initially rather off-put by this change but swiftly grew to like the Felicia character and appreciate how she played off of Rachel once she united with her group.
Jason Bovberg doesn't attempt to draw out his story and at the end of Blood Dawn, we get a conclusive end to the red light aliens' story. Honestly, I felt the ending was a little too pat and happy for such a gruesome horror novel trilogy. I was fully expecting something approaching a total party kill or the human race being left as a shambled ruin of its former self. However, the story's emotional beats weren't bad and there was certainly a horrific cost to the whole ordeal.
I'm particularly fond of Jason Bovberg's "Blood Aliens" which are both animated corpses as well as creatures from another world. They become smarter and more capable the longer they are on Earth with their threat level increasing accordingly. I also love their peculiar and bizarre weakness to certain blood types. They remain mostly inscrutable without but due to their bond with one of the heroines, we finally get some insight into their motives.
The characterization of the protagonists is really where the books shine as they avoid the trap of characters getting too used to their circumstances. Everyone is traumatized by the horror around them, miserable, and on the verge of panic with even the best barely keeping it together. I also like how it's made clear all of these people had fairly happy lives before the events changed them irrevocably. The horror of the red light aliens and their actions as well as their hostility only grows throughout the book, keeping them a threat right to the end.
Do I have any criticism? I think the ending might have been a little too pat after such a horrible long ordeal. Then again, if the author ever wants to do a sequel trilogy or follow up the characters then leaving some parts of the Earth intact is a good idea. Besides, if anyone deserves a bit of respite it's this group as the author has truly put them through hell.
In conclusion, I recommend this horror novel to fans of the zombie genre who'd like something a little different. I also think fans of Stephen King will appreciate Jason Bovberg's style of focusing on the mundane before transitioning to the nightmarish.
8/10
March 28, 2017
A fantastic close to an awesome trilogy. Just when I thought I might have it figured out, Mr. Bovberg
throws me yet another curve ball. Blood Dawn is my favorite book of the 3 due to the nearly nonstop action and the vividly gruesome detail in which the last installment is described. The book is narrated from the point of view of two extremely strong female heroes, Rachel & Felicia. Set in my home town and surrounding countryside, I really felt like I was there alongside the survivors, but so glad I wasn't. Once I started reading this book, I had a very difficult time putting it down. Now I'm going back to read Blood Red and Draw Blood again before reading Blood Dawn a second time. Thank you Jason Bovberg for one hell of a great story!
throws me yet another curve ball. Blood Dawn is my favorite book of the 3 due to the nearly nonstop action and the vividly gruesome detail in which the last installment is described. The book is narrated from the point of view of two extremely strong female heroes, Rachel & Felicia. Set in my home town and surrounding countryside, I really felt like I was there alongside the survivors, but so glad I wasn't. Once I started reading this book, I had a very difficult time putting it down. Now I'm going back to read Blood Red and Draw Blood again before reading Blood Dawn a second time. Thank you Jason Bovberg for one hell of a great story!
December 30, 2018
The end of a trilogy really makes or breaks the entire story. If book 3 falls apart all you feel is a sense of loss over WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN, even if the previous books were PERFECT, especially if the previous books were perfect. I'm really happy to say that with Blood Dawn, Jason Bovberg landed his trilogy just fine.
March 31, 2018
pretty bad
April 6, 2017
An explosive end to a thrilling trilogy!
This unique series takes you on a thrill ride with strong characters, vivid details, and terrific storytelling. The final installment in the trilogy is a fantastic conclusion to a riveting journey.
This unique series takes you on a thrill ride with strong characters, vivid details, and terrific storytelling. The final installment in the trilogy is a fantastic conclusion to a riveting journey.
April 18, 2017
Easily the best book in the Blood series. Bovberg's writing is much smoother, making the story more engaging and the characters easier to relate to. It's a quick read with tension that mounts steadily until the end, which is exciting and pretty gruesome (and those creatures are just as frickin' creepy as they were in previous novels). If you've read the other novels in the series, you can expect a satisfying ending with Blood Dawn.
April 18, 2017
If you like the first two Blood books, you will certainly like Blood Dawn. Bovberg's ability to tell a great story, full of action and gruesome detail, never lets up in his third book. This whole series is such a unique twist on the zombie genre. I feel like it belongs in its own category. I'm so happy I got to experience this trilogy as it's unlike any other I've read. Bovberg is clearly passionate about what he does and it shows up in his writing. I look forward to reading more of his work in the future.
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