Review: Blood Oath by Christopher Farnsworth
Reviewed by Caleb S.
When I was reading the description of Blood Oath, a vampire secret agent bound to the President, I thought this had potential. I am happy to report, I was right! Nathanial Cade was turned into a vampire in 1867, was shortly caught, imprisoned, tried, and sentenced to death by hanging. Before his sentence was carried out, President Andrew Johnson pardoned him and had him blood bound to the Office of the President of the United States.
Zach Barrows is a young white house staffer whose ambition got him to the White House and the man whom the President trusts to be the replacement liaison for Cade, much to his surprise and initial resistance.
Cade is like the supernatural Man in Black. If something really weird is found or reported, Cade gets sent to check it out, along with his sidekick. Zach’s first assignment with Cade is to a port near Washington D.C. where a shipping container has been found with rotting human body parts. Someone has been modifying them ala Frankenstein and this points Cade to one person as the most likely suspect. Cade and Zach fly to sunny California to ask the suspect, Konrad, if he has any knowledge of someone trying to reanimate the dead. Things get even crazier from there…
Overall, Blood Oath was a fun, action packed book that kept me wondering what was going to happen next. Each chapter had a little excerpt from different books and reports, quite often from the scientist who studied Cade and tried to explain his supernatural abilities via science. These excerpts were both informative and entertaining. The story and the plot held together fairly well; there were some inconsistencies surrounding Cade and the things that were supposed to be ‘true’, but I didn’t find that they detracted from the story. If you like conspiracy thrillers and vampires running around in today’s world, I think you will enjoy this read.
Caleb is a software engineer and amature woodworker living in southern Minnesota. He has more hobbies than he has time or money for, and enjoys his quiet time reading.
This book was provided free of any obligation by Putnam Adult. No monetary or any other form of compensation was received.
Category: Action & Adventure, Genre Fiction, Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers
I was interested in this book until I got to the word vampire! I loved the one that Colleen didn’t get but it is the only vampire book that I ever read. The reason that I loved it is that there was a lot of research into Lincoln’s life that I wasn’t familiar with even though I had several biographies of him. The funniest part of the whole did have to do with vampires and just could not stop from laughing from it.
Carol Wong
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Oh please…if I read that one more book somehow ties vampires into the plot I am going to scream
. What is with the obsession? I loved the Twilight books, grant you, but enough is enough, right? Maybe I am just not into them as much as I thought I was. I listened to the audio book for Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter and I just couldn’t get into the plot line. It is interesting that they are trying to combine it with either history or science to make it seem “credible” but I am at the point that, if I see the word “vampire” anywhere in the description I just put the book down. However, if you like the vampire trend, I am sure this new governmental twist will be intriguing.
Here, here! It’s like someone realized “oh, you can write about vampires!?” and then EVERYBODY decided to jump on the vampire bandwagon … sheesh
Vampires everywhere!!! Good grief, haha … I must say: this at least seems to be a fairly novel storyline for a vampire story. I like that they tried to mix in “scientific reports” explaining the character – nice touch.
Not one I’m gonna read, but that is a nice touch all the same 