After the success of "Bite Club" we are introduced to its sequel -- the attempt of a vampire mafia family to enter into a legitimate business by pushing the drug Plasmagoria.

Risa, now head of the Del Toro family after killing off her two brothers, nephew and uncle, thought that it'd be easy as pie from here on. But she soon finds that running the Del Toro family is not as fulfilling as she had expected. Their legitimate businesses are the subject of myriad lawsuits, and Risa herself is being investigated by the police as the suspect in a string of murders.

Homicide detective Paco Macavoy develops an obsession with Risa. He confirms that Risa is innocent of the murders, and also that the Vampire Crime Unit is riddled with corruption. All in all, I find sequel and the plot to be pushing it too hard and the characters seemed to be made out of cardboard. The duo of Chaykin & Tischman should've just contented themselves with the success of the original comic and left it at that.

Book Details:

Title Bite Club: Vampire Crime Unit
Author Howard Chaykin and David Tischman
Reviewed By Purplycookie ( )