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BloodWind reviewed by Carol Castellanos



Book Image   Blood Wind by Charlotte Boyett-Compo  
Vampire - Science Fiction
ISBN: 0966820932
Publisher: Twilight Times Books
Date: 1999
Pages: 2000
Price: $12.95
Distribution: CD-ROM

 How can a world without women exist? Well that is except the ones that 
they steal from other worlds.

Rysalia is that world, a world where in years past the men had made 
terrible mistakes with their scientific research. These same mistakes are what 
killed the women of their planet. In search of the perfect war weapon the men 
created a retrovirus that would sterilize the females of the planets they were 
at war with. Only there was a mishap and the tanks exploded before they made 
it off the planet, which in turn ended up killing all the women in their own 
empire instead. This left the Rysalian Prim with no women so they set about 
stealing women from earth and other planets. These same women are then 
enslaved, and either given jobs or made physical release vessels for their 
reapers. Though some of the men and women are allowed to join that is very 
limited, and reapers are forbidden to join.

Kamerone Cree is one of these reapers. Reapers are race of men the 
scientist created through genetic experiments in order to make better 
fighters. These fighters/creatures are the top most fighting machines the 
Rysalian Prime has on their side, they ae very hard to beat, loyal due to 
programming from time of birth and feared by all others. Kamerone Cree is not 
only a top ranking reaper, but he is also the most respected and feared.

For this reason the resistance has set their eyes on Cree as their 
salvation. Some of the enslaved women from Earth or Terra as the Rysalians 
call it, have banded together with women from other planets to try and overcome 
the men and gain their freedom. Some of these women also belong to another 
group called The Sisters Of The Multitude that have even more sinister plans 
for the men.

To insure his help the resistance set out to systematically destroy 
everything Cree holds dear in order to win him over to their side. First they 
set him up to fall in love with a human female, this same female is part of the 
resistance. Not only does the resistance program Cree to fall for the human 
woman, but they program her without her knowledge to fall for him also. There 
is only one problem with this plan, will it work, or will all this be for 
nothing? Will things go the way the resistance wants? Or has Cree had 
everything he cared about destroyed for nothing? If things do work out will 
Cree be able to reclaim the woman he loves? Even if he does what are the 
Multitude's plans and will they succeed? In what way do the reapers of Rysalia 
tie in to the vampire legends of earth? 

Finding the answers to all these questions will keep you reading it to the 
end. I personally enjoyed the book immensely. Then again I have not read a 
book of Charlotte Boyett-Compo's that I did not enjoy. With some of the 
vampire like qualities the reapers have it would also be a nice addition to a 
vampire collection also.
Copyright © 2000 Carol Castellanos All Rights Reserved.