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Blood Sisters
They called themselves the "Loreleis." Six bright, attractive high school girls who had formed an exclusive sorority. Their secret initiation kept anyone else from joining their hallowed ranks. Until Kathi Harcort, the new girl in town, proved more stubborn than they had bargained for. But on the verge of becoming the seventh Lorelei, Kathi failed the final, fatal test…
Thirty years have passed since the Loreleis were disbanded. Thirty years since Kathi's mysterious and shocking death. Now the Loreleis are together once more on the eve of a class reunion. Only instead of six, there are seven of them. For Kathi has returned. And she's about to initiate the Loreleis into the hellish ranks of the BLOOD SISTERS
Thirty years have passed since the Loreleis were disbanded. Thirty years since Kathi's mysterious and shocking death. Now the Loreleis are together once more on the eve of a class reunion. Only instead of six, there are seven of them. For Kathi has returned. And she's about to initiate the Loreleis into the hellish ranks of the BLOOD SISTERS
352 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1988
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May 14, 2018
Nothing interesting ever happens in Baxter, OK.
January 7, 2018
Blood Sisters has possibly one of my favorite covers of any Zebra horror paperback: the skeleton robed in a graduation gown, clutching a bloody diploma in one bony hand while inhaling a rose in the other (complete with class ring). Unfortunately, that’s the ONLY thing this so-called horror novel has in its favor. Five high school friends are invited back to a 30 year reunion. In their youth they were responsible (supposedly) for the death of a student who wanted to be inducted into their exclusive club, The Lorelei’s. It takes nearly 200 pages before the reader finally learns how the young girl’s demise came about. Prior to that we get to know every (and I mean every) detail about each character’s life. Blah blah blah. Yawn yawn yawn. There was so much character exposition that I started skimming around page 255. By the time the resolution arrived I was over it. Looks like the only other titles under this author’s belt were a handful of romances, which would explain the lack of horror. Or suspense. Or intrigue. Or anything for that matter. At least the cover is cool.
January 11, 2020
Despite the amazing cover with the skeleton in a cap and gown, there is no horror at all in this book. I kept reading and waiting for something even remotely creepy to happen, but no such luck. Not even a suspenseful moment. This book is basically a Lifetime movie of the week involving unlikable characters reuniting for a high school reunion. Some of them start to believe a long dead classmate is haunting them. The only character I liked was the dead classmate who we learn about in flashbacks of their high school days. She was actually a character with what seemed like an interesting backstory. Unfortunately, the classmate back from the dead plot takes a backseat and the book mainly focuses on the soap opera style lives of the main characters. There are the typical soap opera tropes of extramarital affairs, incest, blackmail, etc. There are also several plot holes and an ending that did make me laugh. If you go into the book knowing it is not a horror and, if you like to read a trashy melodrama once in a while, it might be an okay read.
January 15, 2012
Blood Sisters is a fairly drawn out and contrived novel that plays out like a bad movie of the week from the 70's. The kind that were packed with has-been, fading, starlets and an equal amount of plot holes and directionless subplots. In a way I found this novel an ahead of its time combination of things that would be done to better effect in the late 90's and early 2000's in films like I Know What You Did Last Summer, Jawbreaker and Mean Girls. Overall the story has a senseless resolution, and it makes the end of that occult/sci-fi movie of the week classic, Invitation To Hell look like Titanic.
May 25, 2019
Boring and pointless.
August 15, 2021
"We, the Loreleis of John Ross High School, solemnly swear that we will never reveal what happened to Kathi Harcort, that we will guard the secret unto death."
6 girls, 1 club, and 1 unlikely wannabe member that'll do anything to get in. Welcome to "Blood Sisters" by Deborah Sherwood!
Anne, Liz, Francine, Vali, Margie, and Barbara Jean all make up an exclusive club called "The Loreleis". It's always been just the 6 of them until Kathi Harcorrt came to John Ross High to finish out her senior year.
After a run in with the law, the Loreleis are given the choice to disband or put their efforts toward philanthropy with Kathi.
Attempting to pull one over on the principal, the girls choose community service and start getting to know Kathi, the saintly "good girl".
Seeing that Kathi wants friends more than anything, and that she doesn't give up easily, the Loreleis inform her of her final initiation, on Halloween Night.
Fast-forward to the 30 year anniversary of John Ross High. All of the Loreleis are there, except Kathi Harcort. Easily explained enough, Kathi was never initiated to the Loreleis. In fact, she was found dead outside a church when the girls were still in school. But when Kathi starts popping up around town during the week of the reunion, the girls start to wonder, what really happened to Kathi Harcort?
I loved this book, however the anticipation of something crazy happening was much worse than what actually went down. It was a great story, but not what I would want out of a "horror" specified novel!
6 girls, 1 club, and 1 unlikely wannabe member that'll do anything to get in. Welcome to "Blood Sisters" by Deborah Sherwood!
Anne, Liz, Francine, Vali, Margie, and Barbara Jean all make up an exclusive club called "The Loreleis". It's always been just the 6 of them until Kathi Harcorrt came to John Ross High to finish out her senior year.
After a run in with the law, the Loreleis are given the choice to disband or put their efforts toward philanthropy with Kathi.
Attempting to pull one over on the principal, the girls choose community service and start getting to know Kathi, the saintly "good girl".
Seeing that Kathi wants friends more than anything, and that she doesn't give up easily, the Loreleis inform her of her final initiation, on Halloween Night.
Fast-forward to the 30 year anniversary of John Ross High. All of the Loreleis are there, except Kathi Harcort. Easily explained enough, Kathi was never initiated to the Loreleis. In fact, she was found dead outside a church when the girls were still in school. But when Kathi starts popping up around town during the week of the reunion, the girls start to wonder, what really happened to Kathi Harcort?
I loved this book, however the anticipation of something crazy happening was much worse than what actually went down. It was a great story, but not what I would want out of a "horror" specified novel!
May 29, 2020
A Lifetime movie in book form, the closest this comes to horror would be as a weak cousin of the original "Prom Night" film.
September 20, 2018
Amazing cover, bland book. Instead of horror you get soap opera with a couple of tacked on scenes to try to create tension but those are so far between that you’ll get bored reading about the characters marriages, affairs, kids, high school days. Ugh. Wanted Stephen King and got Danielle Steele. Here’s a perfect example of manipulative marketing! The prose is okay, but it’s just not what you’d expect or want from the genre.
June 13, 2020
They say that you can't judge a book by its cover, and this book proves that old saying.
The cover of Blood Sisters is awesome. The story...not so much.
The cover of Blood Sisters is awesome. The story...not so much.
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