Blood price by tanya huff6/9/2023 ![]() ![]() With many of the typical expectations and gratifications that are the baggage of horror. Blood Price has a few other strengths, like Huff's strong sense of place (the book is set in Toronto), but it is all in the benefit of a narrative that is clearly horror. ![]() Huff introduces some excellent characters, who are all much better served by the immediate sequel Blood Trail. The book has some gory sections and a good deal of occultic matter, like demon summoning, vampires feeding, and so on. ![]() Why does this matter? It doesn't, except that I'm no longer much of a reader of horror novels, and would have appreciated less garbled messages before starting to read Blood Price. I find this bit of pigeonholing highly misleading, and would have preferred to see this book thrown under that other (admittedly creaky) catch-phrase, horror. But in the little DAW box on the spine, we see a clear label: FANTASY. The title, along with the spooky illustration, might give the impression that this is a horror novel. Blood Price, Tanya Huff, DAW, 1991, 272 pp.įor those who might judge a book by its cover, Blood Price gives mixed signals. ![]()
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