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Blood Lust 3: Revelations by Rhys A. Wilcox
01/10/2007 . Source: Sue Davies 
pub: RAW! 324 page enlarged paperback. Price: £ 9.95 (UK) . ISBN: 978-1-4303-0015-1. Buy Blood Lust 3: Revelations in the USA - or Buy Blood Lust 3: Revelations in the UK  check out website: www.thebloodlust.co.uk
Perhaps this should have been entitled 'Yes There's A Bit More'. Mr. Wilcox likes Cameron Mortice and he is not going to let him rest in peace. He has been wandering around various towns since Book One. This hasn't done a lot for their population's life expectancy.
The useful thing in the opener is a prologue that explains a little about what happened previously in pithy extracted paragraphs. Mind you, if you are daft enough to pick up Number Three without reading at least Number One first you only have yourself to blame. Anyway, if like me, you have now read all three you are still unlikely to know what is going on because so much happens and it's relentless.
This book follows on more or less directly from Book Two, mere nano-seconds from the end. Cameron and Gillian are forced to address the rather difficult problem of the end of the world. It's bad enough that they are both already the living dead but now it looks like its curtains for the planet. It sure is a bad day in Portsmouth. So, with Cameron's Dad in Hell and most of the inmates on their way out, its time for a little outing.
I'd like to explain some more of the plot but God knows what it's all about and he's not telling. In fact, God is about the only heavenly instrument missing from this celestial and bestial transcript.
Hell is other people, as they say. Cameron discovers it's also himself. As he is the soulless dead, his own soul is residing in Hell and he's not too impressed with deadhead Cam. Gillian too finds that life-after-death is not as simple as it should be. Meanwhile topside, the Aunties are trying to save the world as the demons and angels fight it out.
This is great stuff and worth a re-read. It has great meaty dialogue, character and plot revelations, destruction on a mass scale and angels who get distracted by chocolate. Surely, that is a masterstroke.
Sue Davies
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