Thursday, October 11, 2007

An October Staff Recommendation - Midnight Mass

Check out the 10 new reviews at BookGuide's Staff Recommendations page for October 2007.

We're going to post all ten as blog entries here over the course of the month, or you can visit the link above to see them all at once right now. Here's your first Oct selection...


A unique twist on the classic vampire story. Vampires are taking over the world, and are corralling people into 'ranches' to be 'cattle' for the vampires. Some humans are permitted to remain human, the 'cowboys', to guard the ranches during daylight hours and to help in catching more humans. This is a tale of an odd band of rebels (a fallen priest, a rabbi, a girl, and a nun) and their part in the horror of every day life. The priest has become disillusioned because his mentor invited the vampires in and helped them destroy the church, all to become a vampire himself. Can he fight the despair he feels? Can a priest work successfully with a rabbi? How on earth do they think they can destroy the vampires? Was also released as a motion picture in 2003. -- Reviewed by Julie H. [Bess Dodson Walt Branch Library]

Have you read this one? What did you think?

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