Set in a small town in 1990, Scarlet Fox is a twenty something, disillusioned, unemployed single mother. A troubled boy arrives and attempts to befriend her. The burnt remains of a family are found at a circle of Neolithic standing stones. Scarlet becomes haunted and obsessed by their memory.
Scarlet gets a night job at the new blood diseases laboratory and is pleased to study the lab? s chimpanzee. She becomes intimately involved with a colleague. But when events take over Scarlet is horrified to discover there are both virtuous and diabolical vampires in town. She is confronted with the choice of becoming a vampire or dying. But she is unprepared for the traumatic loss she suffers in making the life-changing step.
There is another death and the police become suspicious of Scarlet. Love is the only virtue not covered by the virtuous vampires, which allows the vice of envy to establish itself. The troubled boy and a rogue vampire reveal their destructive nature. On the night of the Harvest Festival a jealous drunken rabble, attack the laboratory.
Worth Their Weight in Blood is a satirical, cutting-edge vampire novel, using natural selection to create a world where vampires could have evolved. By synthesizing the new evolutionary theory of empathy erosion enabling cruelty with the significance of self-reflection and altruism on the development of soul, Worth Their Weight in Blood takes the vampire genre to a whole new territory.
Worth Their Weight in Blood is definitely worth a read. Especially if you fancy a new twist on the genre. Carole Jahme is a Guardian journalist and science author and there is no doubt that she can write. If you like vampires and feel like a new take, check it out. Enjoy. —Scifiward.com
..there needs to be a hook. There has to be some unique selling point that is going to pique my interest. Carol Jahme has managed to achieve that in this novel using the premise of vampirism through evolution, it? s an intriguing concept. Imagine a world where vampires exist as an off shot of human development. They have co-existed with humans, but always kept themselves hidden, existing on the periphery of human society.I would happily recommend this novel to anyone who enjoys his or her horror with a scientific edge. —The Eloquent Page
Publisher: MIRA
Release Date: January 2012
ISBN_10: 978-1-908509-01-7
ISBN_13: 978-1-9
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