Kurt's bookshelf: read

The Eight
American Ways: An Introduction to American Culture
A Curious Invitation: The Forty Greatest Parties in Fiction
The New Low Carb Way of Life: A Lifetime Program to Lose Weight and Radically Lower Cholesterol While Still Eating the Foods You Love, Including Chocolate
Earth Afire
Earth Unaware
The Prostate Monologues: What Every Man Can Learn from My Humbling, Confusing, and Sometimes Comical Battle With Prostate Cancer
Blood Crime
Americanah
Here, There, Elsewhere: Stories from the Road
Oxford History of Board Games
On the Noodle Road: From Beijing to Rome, with Love and Pasta
Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities
The Skull and the Nightingale
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe
The Wolves of Midwinter
The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks


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22 March 2014

The Sanguinists Series - James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell

Armageddon is coming, but a trio of individuals from prophecy can save us.  The Woman of Learning, the Knight of Christ, and the Warrior of Man must save the world from the plotting of the immortal Judas Iscariot.  What?  And.... there are vampires.  On both sides of the battle.

There are two books in this series, so far:  Blood Gospel, and Innocent Blood.  I have read many of James Rollins' Sigma Force books, which typically involve the search for some kind of mystical, historical, or scientific (if not all three) item that poses a threat to the world and civilization as we know it.  I have not read anything else by Rebecca Cantrell, who apparently is best known for her historical-mystery Hannah Vogel series.  In reading this I was expecting a blending of mystery, thriller, treasure hunt, and religious undertones (since so many of the great historical-mystical stories seem to involve some kind of religion to some extent).  What I wasn't expecting was the undead, yet, they appeared, and were woven deeply into the mythology that Rollins and Cantrell have developed around their heroes.

Without giving too much more away, these good-vs-evil novels bring a new twist on both religious fiction as well as vampire mythology.  They are fairly fast reads, and if the thought of an archaeologist, soldier, and priest teaming up to save the world excites you, then pick up Blood Gospel soon, and join the adventure.

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