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Dog Blood is the second story in the Hater trilogy. I liked this book even better than the first, and the first was pretty darn good and scary! My only problem is the fact that I hate everyone in this story. The haters, and the unchanged alike. As for the characters, they're either brutal or they act like sheep. There was plenty of action, so that's a plus. I'm not sure whether or not I'm going to continue on to book three, as I've read it before. It's a good story, but I may just move on to Moody's book Trust. It's time I read something new, or at least new to me! Yep, I'd recommend this book and author. He's one of the good ones!


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Dog Blood was a solid sequel to Hater. Hater struck me as being a very original idea which is tough in the zombie/infected genre. I think the shock of the concept had worn off a bit when I started the second book. Moody still managed to make the story interesting by making it go places I would not have guessed. I highly recommend it, but definitely read Hater first.
Danny McCoyne returns in Hater, having narrowly escaped death. Hell bent on finding his daughter, he makes his way in the now ravaged land that was England. I enjoyed this book, voraciously consuming it in about 3 days. This whole series of books could have been longer, giving us more backstory into the characters. As a result the writing is very straightforward, giving you enough to move the story along and not much more. This is why this book is relatively short, however it is an enjoyable read. I would recommend this book, but do not expect Stephen King-like character development.
I enjoyed the first book in the series so I had to keep going in to book two. It was a good read as well and I’m looking forward to the third.
I am going to put up this review for both Hater and the sequel Dog Blood. I got Hater at a local bookseller and got Dog Blood here on after I finished the previous. These books have an originality that is refreshing in today's fiction. This is not the same badly written nonsense of hollow characters locked in a hotel, John Ramboing against a horde of zombies. This novel is legitimately scary at times and takes ordinary persons and makes them scary. The causes of "the Change" on a global level are not the real focus of the story and it leads to some really inspired character development. This is not a "tons of action" book and is more story/dialogue driven.
First of all read Moody's "Hater" book first otherwise you will be at a loss. I dont think there is a writer out there who speaks with a more visceral approach than Moody, you can almost see the visuals popping in your head and he is an exciting read. There is one odd difference between this book and Hater. The first book takes place in England and everyone of course talks like an Englishman with the slang,in the second book it still takes place in England of course but now everyone sounds like an American-obviously an editor changed everything and it is a bit disconcerting.
The book itself is a fun read but about 3/4 in Moody goes wild with exageration SPOILER ALERT--------------The haters are people who hate and want to kill but they dont have super human powers, they have uninhibited strength and are not afraid of dying, the last 100 pages Moody changes this for some reason and his daughter has the strength of 10 men and she is 5 years old-HUH? END SPOILER ALERT-----------this ending detracts from the rest of the book and brings what should be 5 stars to 3, I will still read the next installment but with more sobriety
Dog Blood is in a tough literary position. Being the middle book of a trilogy is a tough place to be in. The first book, Hater, had the benefit of surprise and the final book (when finally released) will have the benefit of driving the plot to it's conclusion. Dog Blood, on the other hand, has to drive the plot...but only so far. It has to maintain interest, but not close or open too many new storylines. I've given this 4 stars as credit due to the series but this book itself really deserves a plain 3.

***Slight Spoiling of Dog Blood ahead and assumed knowledge of Hater***

In Hater we really got to know Danny, our protagonist, as a person. We didn't spend too much time with him after his transition. Instead, we still held Danny as he was in our minds with this "new-zombie" overlay near the end. It was tight, sharp and infinitely pleasurable to read that book.

Following up with Danny in Dog Blood, we have lost our connection with him somewhat. When introduced to Hating in the first book, we understood he was compelled to do it and felt no real guilt over it, but we sensed his inherent conflict with it as a new condition. In Dog Blood we find someone who enjoys gory killing, seeks it out and feels complete only when doing it. Our Danny is lost and I find it difficult to ferret out if that loss is a purposeful story driver or if it is simply a lack in the writing itself.

There is so much less in terms of understandable internal dialog and sentient thought that I was slightly disappointed. One thing Hater had that no other book in the genre ever did was a thinking and complicated person at the center. Throughout Hater one never lost the connection with Danny, regardless of their status as human or Hater.

In Dog Blood, Danny has but two real trains of thought and those are to kill and find more people to kill and to find his daughter because he loves and wants to take care of her. For some reason this just doesn't work out like I think it was intended to. There are too many gaps in that. How can a person who no longer thinks about bathing, caring for their own wounds, sex, companionship or even the death of close compatriots be concerned with "caring for" a child? This new Danny tromps through horrible weather in rags and occassionally eats whatever is laying about. Yet he is intent upon finding his daughter and keeping her safe between bouts of killing. It just rings false somewhere. Keep her safe from what? Living like he does?

In short, our Danny no longer has the sense to come out of the rain but he is concerned that his daughter is in it. Those two thoughts don't go together.

Danny goes on to a tantalizing dilemna that may give us a hint of things to come. Is he slowing becoming cured? Is he a new and more moderate Hater? And what, exactly, is his daughter? All these little things add up to the best parts of the story and are tiny bread crumbs for the final installment.

***Super spoiling ahead in my final words, so be forewarned!***

I do have questions that just keep resonating. I suppose that may be contributing to this slight feeling of dissatisfaction with the book. The Haters all seem to have the ability to think, aside from the Brutes, and clearly understand consequences and logical trains of thought. So how can they not understand they are doomed? If all their children are unmanageable psychotics who show absolutely no sense of self and seek to simply tear apart humans, how can they hope to continue? They can't be dressed, fed, have their injuries tended to and do, as we saw, tear themselves and other Haters up to get to any humans. How can you teach a child who is only quiet when there are no humans in a mile radius? And even then they are simply silent and unresponsive. How can you teach them to even wash their cuts or make a nest of tree branches? If the Haters win, humanity is absolutely doomed because the only reason the adult Haters know anything is because there were once human. The children know nothing and never will. Is that perhaps what he is going toward? Will this turn out to be the way nature finally destroys humanity, by ensuring it can't survive as Haters after the rest of the humans are gone?

I did like this book but I didn't love it like I did Haters. This one I had no problem putting down to do other things while it would have been unthinkable to do so during my first or second read of Hater. Definitely recommend it in order to maintain continuity for the final book, but don't expect the same level of satisfaction that Hater brought.
Dog Blood is the second story in the Hater trilogy. I liked this book even better than the first, and the first was pretty darn good and scary! My only problem is the fact that I hate everyone in this story. The haters, and the unchanged alike. As for the characters, they're either brutal or they act like sheep. There was plenty of action, so that's a plus. I'm not sure whether or not I'm going to continue on to book three, as I've read it before. It's a good story, but I may just move on to Moody's book Trust. It's time I read something new, or at least new to me! Yep, I'd recommend this book and author. He's one of the good ones!