Another Vamp!

Today was going to be the start of something special, since this week is the one year anniversary of this blog being created.  However, that will have to wait until tomorrow, since I finished a book and the review is demanded out of it.

Today's book review is Necroscope II: Vamphyri, which is another well-written piece by Brian Lumley.  Having read the first book in the Necroscope series, I had high expectations for the second book.  The story behind the second book involves the series' hero Harry Keogh, who was killed in the physical sense at the end of the first book.  However, the incorporeal version of him lives on in the Mobius Continuum and soon, he learns of a new threat in England in the guise of Yulian Bodescu, who becomes a Vamphyri.  However, that's just one of the threats he has to deal with, as we find out that Ivan Gerenko is wanting power within the Russian E-Branch, and will do just about anything to get it.

Like the first book, Vamphyri has a lot of backstory on the characters, especially Yulian and Thibor Ferenczy's role in turning him into one of them.  The horrors in which the deaths and transformations occur within the book are not for the faint of heart, though, so this is not light reading nor is it for the faint of heart.  Lumley is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors, and after reading the first two books in the Necroscope series, it becomes evident why.