I breezed though this and really enjoyed it, not just because of the characters and the fast-paced plot—this would make a great movie—but also because of the entertaining and well done audiobook narration.

The nitty-gritty: A unique take on vampires, Rovers is an outstanding blood-soaked, tragic tale of revenge and redemption. Lange has a neat and visually descriptive writing style, which for me made this feel quite cinematic. Lange gives us some flashbacks that show how Jesse and Claudine met and fell in love, another heartbreaking tale that brought me to tears.They aren't consistent, but every once in a while there will be an actual knock when someone knocks on a door. Rovers can also identify each other by the black aura that surrounds them, an aura only other rovers can see.

ROVERS is a bleak, gritty, violent, and mostly tender portrayal of life as an outsider that happens to be about vampires. The second perspective is that of Charles, a man consumed with grief over his son’s murder—his throat was slashed and his body was drained of blood. The newsletter will land in your inbox on a Friday and bring you the highlights of everything we've written about Weatherfield that week. At the centre of the living area in the cosy Rovers Annexe, guests will find a TV set up with hours’ worth of the most loved Coronation Street episodes from over the years.Fans will be able to watch the affair of the 80s - Deirdre Barlow’s tryst with Mike Baldwin - the disastrous tram crash a decade ago, and last year’s classic moment where David Platt discovers a sinkhole in his back garden. Even though I was sad when it was done, ROVERS ends perfectly and beautifully, it moves from darkness to light, from the desperation of holding on fiercely with despair and fear to this sad world of dark blood and shadows, where lost souls feed on other lost souls, to the relief of letting go into the light and being free.

Stylishly gritty, populated by archetype characters simultaneously larger than life and accurately reflective of reality, punctuated and ultimately defined by outrageous yet deftly framed violence.

Barman Sean Tully was gazing up at the Purplebricks sign as co-worker Emma Brooker appeared ahead of a staff meeting with current landlady Jenny Connor. As the Bicentennial—July 4th, 1976—approaches, these three groups will converge in Las Vegas for a violent and bloody showdown. Exceedingly well written, action-filled and immensely thought provoking, Lange has penned a clear winner.

Rovers” is Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” revisited with two brothers, one big and dumb, and the other responsible for his brother. These vamps need feed only once a month, with the exception of infant blood, which will sustain them for a year. The tale is told in alternating chapters between the two brothers, Jesse and Edgar, with other chapters devoted to the bikers and one who hunts them because they took his son. It wasn’t always an easy read, but Lange’s evocative prose, dusty desert setting, and surprisingly sympathetic characters make this a standout book. Otherwise, rovers are pretty much human: they eat and drink and fall in love, seek revenge on each other and mourn the loss of their friends.

Now although I consider myself a super stan of Sai King, when it comes to his book recommendations I find his taste only matches mine maybe 66%.