Lost Souls

Lost Souls - Poppy Z Brite

In a frenzy of drugs, blood and drugs that has lasted for centuries, the vampires Zillah, Molochai and Twig has been carving a bloody trail through out America. When they show up, unexpected and highly dangerous, one late Mardi Gras night at Christians bar, they will change his pace of life that has lasted for alomst four hundred years. For, like them, he is a vampire but one's whos carefullness has all but locked him inside his bar.

During the night, Zillah impregnates a young girl (who's not at all as innocent as you might think) and when the three ravenous vampires leave in the morning, Christian is left with the girl, and once she dies in childbirth (wich happends to all who carry vampire children - practice safe sex) with the child that he names Nothing.

Trying to save Nothing from his bloody birthright, Christian leaves the child with a couple who raised him as their son.

But thoughful and desperate, it will soon be obvious that Nothing is not a normal child and as he runs away to find his favorite rock band Lost Souls, he will meet up with his father again and Nothing will be the same ever again.

For Lost Souls concists of Steve and the frail looking Ghost, a powerful seer who might be the only one who can save Nothing - but not unless he realises what Nothing really is. And in the mean while Steve is struggling to come to terms with the fact that he raped his girlfriend in a drunken fit of rage, and might need all of Ghost's help himself.

More squicks - incest, twincest, murder, rape

The realisation that this book no longer icks me, makes me wonder just how jaded I've become. But I still love the language, that is something.