Blood ties: Blood lines

Sealed away through unending centuries in a sarcophagus never meant to be opened, he had patiently waited for the opportunity to live again, for the chance to feed on the unwary and grow strong. Now, at last, the waiting had come to an end. Brought to the Egyptology Department of Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum, the seals and spells that imprisoned him shipped away by his discoverers, he reached forth to claim the minds and souls of the unsuspecting city dwellers, to begin building an empire for himself and his god. And only three people had even the hint that anything was wrong. For Henry Fitzroy, 450-year-old vampire, it began with a haunting, inescapable image of the sun, a terrifying symbol of death to one such as he. Fearing for his sanity, he called upon his sometime-lover and comrade in supernatural investigations, ex-cop Vicki Nelson, for help. And even as the two struggled to cope with Henry's obsession, Vicki's closest friend and former partner, Police Detective Mike Celluci was following up on two mysterious deaths at the museum, certain he was looking at murders, not accidents -- and equally convinced that the killer was a mummy brought back from the dead!

A book worthy of the WOW list. I started reading it on a monday thinking that I'll finish reading before I left to the Netherlands on Thursday. Boy I was worng. It took me a week to read, a fact that I'm very happy about. What I'm not happy about is the fact that Huff decided not to write more Blood and/or Shadow books. The world of Henry, Vicky, Mike & Tony is wonderful and very rich. It's a shame that it had to end.

The book shows how weak human kind is, and how easily humans can be manipulated and tempted by external force like mind control. Even Henry the vampire found it hard not to be tempted by the Egyptian magician because of the shred of humanity still in him.