{"id":558,"date":"2011-07-19T13:11:43","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T18:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/?p=558"},"modified":"2011-07-19T13:11:43","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T18:11:43","slug":"blood-sacraments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/blood-sacraments\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood Sacraments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Find this book in a library near you.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/505420574\" target=\"_blank\">Gregory, Todd, ed. <em>Blood Sacraments.<\/em> Valley Falls, NY: Bold Strokes Books, 2010. Paperback. 296pp. $16.95. ISBN: 978-1-60282-190-3.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0pt none; float: left; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-559\" title=\"Cover of Blood Sacraments\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Blood-Sacraments-e1311099021479.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"309\" \/>In recent years vampires have taken the spotlight as icons of sensuality. Inspired more by lust than horror, this collection covers many aspects of vampire lore, while describing any number of sexy scenes. While some vampires are cast as evil bloodsuckers looking to torture their victims, others are innocent men who are pulled into vampirism against their will \u2015 all of which provide opportunities for highly charged scenes of lust and sexual abandon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCenturies of Longing\u201d offers one of the collection\u2019s sweeter love stories, telling the tale of\u00a0 a vampire who has been waiting hundreds of years for love. \u201cOut of Light and Into the Night\u201d gives a more sadistic look at vampires involved in ritual killing. The vampires of \u201cThree\u201d find themselves entwined with a different sort of demon, while \u201cKells\u201d shows that teenage crushes can be misplaced, especially if your crush becomes someone you hate once he drinks your blood.<\/p>\n<p>A collection of stories from different authors always runs the risk of being uneven, but on the whole <em>Blood Sacraments<\/em> succeeds in bringing together vastly different perspectives to create an enjoyable read. Although vampires and erotica aren\u2019t my usual topics of interest, I was surprised to find that I could not put this book down. I would recommend <em>Blood Sacraments<\/em> to any library looking to expand its genre collections.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reviewed by, <strong>Emily Faulkner<\/strong><br \/>\nAdult Services Librarian<br \/>\nChicago Public Library<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gregory, Todd, ed. Blood Sacraments. Valley Falls, NY: Bold Strokes Books, 2010. Paperback. 296pp. $16.95. ISBN: 978-1-60282-190-3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,36,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}