Traci Ashbe Dark Epic Fantasy Author

A Love Like Blood (2014) by Marcus Sedgwick is a gripping mystery starting in 1944 and spanning over two decades from 1944 to 1968. Known for being a YA writer, this was Sedgwick’s first novel for adults.

The main character Charles Jackson who is an English Army Corporal sees a man drinking a woman’s blood from her possibly lifeless body in 1944. From there the incident doesn’t leave his mind and seven years later when he comes back to Paris, where he seen the terrifying incident, he sees this man again. Intent on finding the truth he makes it his mission to stop this man and bring justice finally to the woman’s memory or to possibly find her alive. This book centres a lot on guilt and responsibility and Jackson, though he thinks she was dead, is unsure whether she was and whether he could have saved her if he…