Written in the Blood

Before I start the review I would note for Readers: I Highly Recommend that you read “The String Diaries” prior to “Written in the Blood” it will enhance the reading experience! I loved The String Diaries, the first instalment in this absolutely brilliantly imaginative story and with Written in the B......more

I enjoyed the String Diaries last year, a decent story with a good layer of the supernatural. I was curious to see how it would be followed up, more of the same would have been a good thing but this book goes well beyond the first part. Again the author writes a decent plot with interesting characters......more

I enjoyed String Diaries, certainly enough to check out its sequel, though normally I'm very much against series of any sort. Objectively this was a perfectly decent and completely unnecessary sequel. Jones did all the proper things, expanded on the world of his long living beings, introduced a new......more

Written in the Blood by Stephen Lloyd Jones was just like the first book of the series - The String Diaries - really brutal and with no hope for a happy ending but extremely enrapturing and interesting. If in first book the story is mainly about Jackab and Hannah and hossuzu eletek, then in this book......more

Let me start by saying, if you are the type of reader who doesn't mind reading a series out of order, I strongly recommend you don't take that approach with this series. This book started out slow for me and it took me longer to finish than normal, but eventually got to a point where it grabbed my at......more