I LAUGHED MY A$$ OFF! • THANK YOU, JL MERROW! • I NEEDED THAT!

BLOODLUST AND BYLINES
JL MERROW
18 MAY 2020
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“HE’S GIVING ME THAT LOOK AGAIN.
THE ONE THAT SAYS HE WISHES
HE’D SNAPPED MY NECK
AND
KEPT THE RAT AROUND
FOR INTELLIGENT CONVERSATION.”
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OH, MY GAWD!
I LAUGHED MY A$$ OFF!
I’VE NEVER READ ANYTHING SO SLAP-FUNNY IN ALL MY LIFE!

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THIS IS A RE-SUBMISSION (and re-edit)
OF A REVIEW I’D ORIGINALLY WRITTEN (submitted) ON:
08 SEP 18
WHEN THIS BOOK WAS ORIGINALLY TITLED:
“BECOMING THE SPOILS”
OF COURSE, IT WAS BY THE SAME AUTHOR, JL MERROW
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THIS CHARACTER NEVER GIVES UP!
HIS MOUTH [and brain] NEVER STOP, EITHER!

Journalist Frank, is stuck in a cellar with vampire Viktor, and he couldn’t be any more entertaining than when he gets mad at the vampire for NOT sucking him dry — his blood, I mean.
Or, more hilarious when he finds out there are, oh my gawd, RATS — OF ALL THINGS — in the cellar with them, too!
The VAMPIRE?
He’s not so worried about.
But, RATS?!?
Now, THAT’S a different story, altogether!

Gawd this guy, (Frank, is the journalist who was looking for a story on proving vampires are real and then, manages to get himself thrown into a cellar with a very real one — one it just so happens that has not eaten [been fed?] in months,) just doesn’t give up!

Frank gets upset when he thinks he is going to be left down there with Viktor, the vampire — to die right along beside him — because Viktor had been thrown into the cellar (and basically forgotten about) months ago as punishment, for upsetting the head vampire.

So, Frank decides he should be turned into a vampire, himself.
He figures he’ll just die too quickly as a human — or is it he’ll die wwayy toooo slowwly and horrifically — as a human?

Anyway, Frank then gets upset again when the vampire, Viktor, seems like he’s going to do this for him (turn him, that is) but then, in the middle of starting to do it . . . at the Really Very Last Possible Moment (second?) . . . he doesn’t — bite him, I mean.
Apparently, it seems Viktor doesn’t think this is such a good idea, after all .

But, Frank’s not a “raging angry” type of upset at this.
He’s a “running-off-at-the-mouth funny” type of upset.

I won’t give it away but, it’s a good thing Viktor was in a better frame of mind than Frank.
That’s all I can say.
And then, it was just sooo tooo funny, when all of a sudden the cellar door opens, right in the middle of them both, trying to escape out the sky light!
I literally almost fell over laughing so hard!
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE DRY HUMOR!

Honestly, you should love this little quickie!
If you love quirky, dry, slap-stick kind of humor you should, hopefully, be picking yourself up from the floor, too — just as I was!
JL Merrow does such a great job with this guy’s non-stop witty character!

Gawd! I didn’t realize I really needed such a good laugh!
After my first time reading it through and thus, writing my first review about it, I bet I probably re-read this book at least once every two weeks for a couple of months to follow — AT THE LEAST — really, for a couple of months!

And YES, I AM BEING VERY HONEST about that.⤴️
This really is a FEEL-GOOD story.
So HILARIOUS!
So INVIGORATING!

I’ve read many other books by this author, JL Merrow, (believe me, I intend to make that many more, too) and I thought every single one of them to be excellent.
Some were longer, more involved stories, and some were not.
But, I truly, sincerely loved each of these stories, just as well.

Some of my favorites are:
“A PINT OF BEER, A BAG OF CHIPS, AND THOU” (quirky)
and
“MIDWINTER MANOR SERIES:”
(good old fashioned story telling and romantic historical love story)
“POACHER’S FALL” (MIDWINTER MANOR BOOK 1)
“KEEPER’S PLEDGE” (MIDWINTER MANOR BOOK 2)

They were longer, more involved stories but truly, I sincerely loved each of those stories just as well.

TREAT YOURSELF to “BLOODLUST AND BYLINES.”

It is my opinion that you absolutely just CANNOT GO WRONG with this 36 page, 30 minute read!
Maybe 35, I’m a bit slow.

AND JL MERROW?
THANK YOU!
I SINCERELY MEAN THAT —
I HONESTLY THANK YOU!

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