New Book Review: Pearse

Title: Pearse 

Author: London Clarke

Date: 2024

Publisher: London Clarke

Quote: ""What did you get me?" She blinked. "Absinthe.""

Men do well to beware of a woman who asks a man for a date, much less one who pays for his drink, but even for a gal who does the asking and the paying, Lacey is more than Pearse bargained for. 

Pearse is a "sanguinarian." A professional phlebotomist at a hospital, he's become a bit kinky about drinking human blood. There are real people like that. Like other people with peculiar sexual kinks, they form social clubs. And, just as it's easy for people with more sinister intentions to take advantage of more popular kinks, it's easy for people with really evil intentions to exploit a club of people who want to act out "Dracula" fantasies.

This book is a "prequel" leading into a series. It has an ending, but Pearse knows the ending is only temporary. His troubles will resume.

Content warnings: This is a novel about people trying to emulate Dracula in real life. Violence, enough detail to make it clear that extramarital sex is going on, and the kind of language you'd expect today's young people to use when that sort of thing is happening, are to be expected. This is the sort of book parents and teenagers will probably hide from each other--each knowing that the others are aware that that sort of books exist, but neither wanting to know that their parents or their children actually read it.