Life Blood : Ebook Review

2.5/5 Stars

Life Blood
By Thomas Hoover
Kensington Publishing (December 1, 2000)

Genre: Thriller

I spotted this is the free section of kobo and I thought, what they hey this looks interesting enough. Something else to read that's different from all the YA books I've been stockpiling.

Synopsis:

New York film maker Morgan James inadvertently stumbles upon a dark conspiracy when interviewing a new mom for her film 'Baby Love'.  Thinking her film needs a little extra kick she interviews a woman to tell her story of how she is now the mother of a newly adopted caucasain boy and instead of years he was hers in months! With her own self-motives - a deep seeded need to have a child of her own and fearing adoption is her only option - Morgan pushes for more information about this miracle adoption agency 'The Children of Light.' The more information she gets about the Children of Light and its founder Alex Goddard the more dangerous her life becomes. Wanting a baby, answers, and possibly a great documentary, Morgan is determined to find out all she can about where these miracle babies are coming from, which leads her deep into the Mayan jungle of all places.

My Thoughts:

The writing was done well in this book, the characters are pretty real, the story is an interesting concept, and there was some beautiful descriptive language; that being said, I wasn't really a fan of this book.  There were definitely some great aspects about this book, but my main two problems were: I didn't feel connected with the main character and I found the book to be overly predictable.  Most of the books I read I can connect to the protagonist in some aspect, unfortunately I wasn't able to in this book, I'm not sure what it was, but part of the problem might have been her baby craze - I'm 25, I'm not even thinking about babies. On a separate note this is what also bothered me about Breaking Dawn, Bella willing to throw everything with Edward away for a baby.  But back on track, I wasn't the biggest fan of Morgan's character.  The other main problem was I had the ending of the book and the path it would follow almost figured out to a T by the first hundred pages, I continued reading the rest of the book - 400 pages I think - to confirm that 90% of my suspicions were correct.  It was pretty interesting to see it get to the end, and that pacing was pretty good. A couple times near the end I did the 'just one more chapter' but it usually wouldn't be much more than that and I had no urge to try and sneak a peak in the morning. The fact that I seemed to be seeing all the cards and I was just waiting for them to be played out was a little boring for me.

Would I recommend this book? Probably not, unless someone I knew had a particular interest in Mayans or I would think they would relate to the book better than I would.  Would I read another book by the author?  Perhaps, but I'd want to read lots of reviews about the story and characters before making a decision.