Blood Drive

Anna Strong, Vampire, Book 2

By: Jeanne C. Stein

Narrated by: Dina Pearlman

Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins

Publisher's summary

Anna Strong was a tough-as-nails bounty hunter, until the night she was attacked-and changed forever. Now a vampire, Anna discovers that her long-dead brother may have had a daughter - and the girl's in serious trouble. There are some very dangerous people after her, but they're about to learn that to a bounty hunter with an unnatural thirst for blood, even the deadliest human predators are easy prey.

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©2007 Jeanne C. Stein (P)2010 Audible, Inc.

Another winner!!!

What made the experience of listening to Blood Drive the most enjoyable?

Having the same narrator Dina Pearlman preform the book!

What did you like best about this story?

How it keeps you caught up to wait and hear what the character will do next. thinking or speaking outloud - watch out!

Have you listened to any of Dina Pearlman’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

Book one: the becoming

Any additional comments?

Yes onto book 3

Love Love Love Anna Strong

What did you love best about Blood Drive?

Everything, it's a great series, if you like UF it's a must read or listen.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Blood Drive?

There's wasn't one moment in the book, love the whole book/series

What does Dina Pearlman bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

She's a great Narrator, 5 stars all the way

A good solid story

This is a average Vampire story. I enjoyed the book but got uninterested in parts.

narrator is awful

Would you listen to Blood Drive again? Why?

Maybe, once I forget the plot line. The narration was so awful, it's distracting from the story. She doesn't sound like the character speaking, just someone reading the story, and not well at that.

How could the performance have been better?

The narrator could have actually embodied and enlivened the less character.

Any additional comments?

The author makes the characters quite introspective, and explains too much using self talk of Anna's character rather than showing with her actions and dialogue. Please, please, replace the narrator so the remaining books aren't ruined for me.

needs a new narrator

as in book one, the story is good but narration is killing it, of course now i'm hooked to the storyline,I'll just have to bear it.....my advice, listen to the sample first see if you can take the tone of the narrator first..

Like it better than the first book

I actually liked this book as a lady gumshoe story than a urban fantasy. I really didn't see why Anna has to be a vampire in this book. She could have been a normal human being dealing with paranormal beings. I enjoyed this second story a lot better than the first book in the series. I hope Anna uses her full potential as a vampire in the next book.

The Story Is Worth The Listen

While the deadpan delivery of the narrator takes some getting used to, I think the story is worth listening to. Anna Strong is not the brightest fledgling vampire on the block and yet I am enjoying the story and will try book three as well.

Really Good Series

I'm really enjoying this series so far. This is the second book and I am happily going onto the third. Unlike some of the other reviewers, I find the narrator, Dina Pearlman, excellent for this series. She has a good smokey tone with a haunting delivery for action scenes that make them almost like a film in slow-motion---very effective and unusual. And it reminds me a bit of a Raymond Chandler-type of narration.

As in the first book, I like the other characters including some very "good" smarmy villians! Also, lots of unexpected plot twists that I appreciate. The only one drawback is the same one as in the first book---what little sex there is, is so tame as to be dull.

But I think Anna's vampire character is spot on because she's new to the vampire world and discovers she needs "training", so it stands to reason that she doesn't make all the right decisions at first. Besides, it makes her more human that the reader can relate to.

Anyway, fun series that I certainly recommend.

pretty good

Well I think the series is pretty good but I also think Anna as with a lot of lead characters of most books is pretty stupid. She seems to have little common sense some of which is understandable because of the lack of trust, which is also understandable. She knows she doesn't know anything about her new life but still refuses to find out more about it.

Last name not withstanding

Anna Strong has some in female leads commonly found traits, like the inability to adapt to new circumstances and a very heavy dose of denial. Hopefully she develops some smarts later in the series.