Product Description

Zach is a computer hacker who looks like Edward Scissorhands, and Trevor, a comics artist, is traumatized by his father's murder of his mother and brother 20 years previously. Both on the run from their pasts, they end up as lovers in the town of Missing Mile. By the author of "Lost Skulls".

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #272312 in Books
• Published on: 1994-10-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Customer Reviews

Neuromancer meets Necroscope? Not quite...
Whereas Lost Souls? represented a fresh take on the (by now) anemic vampire genre, Drawing Blood (something of a sequel) adds nothing new to Brite's canon. It has the feel of contractual obligation. The main action takes place in Missing Mile (though the inevitable New Orleans crops up), using characters and locations linking to the earlier book. Unfortunately, well defined and interesting characters such as Mollochai, Zillah, Twig, Steve and Ghost are sorely missed. The two male protagonists, Zach and Trevor (how can anyone call one of their heroes Trevor?!) fail to elicit any real interest or sympathy, and even the fairly explicit sexual acts fail to sustain any conviction. Brite also seems poor in her characterizations of women (Eddy is superficially delineated though key to the denouement). Is she capable of writing heterosexual erotica? The shock-horror elements and psylocibin trip are well done however and Poppy Z is in clearly in her element here.

Brite's prose, wonderfully lucid, original and atmospheric in Lost Souls? here takes on an overblown and purple hue. The use of the author's voice becomes quite intrusive and she never seems to let her characters speak for themselves. The description of hacker culture is impossibly dated and laughable; and the references to Lucio Fulci, ganja, Jazz, cartoon culture etc. are impoverished attempts to be hip. The attempts to penetrate various subcultures are superficial and unconvincing. The book is too derivative and overlong to be really enjoyable - a bit of editorial liposuction would have improved the flow and readability. Brite's legion of fans will no doubt disagree, but there's little here to hold one's attention. Lost Souls? and Exquisite Corpse are more enjoyable, more original, and have moments of genuinely disturbing horror, whilst exploring male love and sexuality, and its potential connection with violence, more effectively.

Decadent and compelling.
This was the first book that I read of Poppy's and I have been hooked ever since. I found this book explores the most raw emotions of the characters laying them open for the reader to devour. I found it amazing how she could move the characters so swiftley from the deepest dispair to the hights of passion and love. After finishing the book I found that I really cared about the charaters and felt that the writer did to. I was very pleased to find that she cought up them in a compilation of short stories called Are You Loathsome Tonight? So I recommend that if you enjoy/ed them as much as me and want to know whats happening 10 years on get a copy of this asap. Drawing blood is the most well thumbed book on my shelf and I think everyone should buy 2 copies so they have a spare for when the first falls apart!

addictive
i picked up this book because i was bored one day and a week later i'd read it twice through. The writing style is completely addictive, dreamy and poetic, and afterwards you don't really feel like reading anything else (hence re-reading it). The characters are unusual but believable and the poetic descriptiveness of the writing transports you into the story more fully than most. After reading other horror authors, reading PZB is like diving into a cool swimming pool on a hot day. However, this book does contain some graphic sex scenes so don't read it if u object to that. not in a trashy way though, it doesn't take away from the book at all and the characters involved are really sweet. All in all a book that is likely to be re-read over and over again (I'm up to my fifth time and it would be more if I hadn't lent it to someone last year who hasn't yet given it back). Enjoy!