Thursday, January 9, 2014

Cain’s Blood

Book Jacket for: Cain's blood : a novelGeoffrey Girard did something a little bit different.  He published two books that tell the same story at the same time.  One, Project Cain, (already covered here) told the story from the point of view of a teenage protagonist and was a YA book.  The second, Cain’s Blood, tells the exact same story but this time from the point of view of an adult protagonist and is clearly an adult book.  I read both books, primarily because I wanted to see how different they were and just how gimmicky the whole thing was.

So the author actually does a fairly decent job of making the two books distinctly different experiences.  The scenarios, timelines, & events are all the same of course but the two different characters have very different takes on things and each is involved in parts of the story the other is unaware of.  Additionally the adult version of the book makes plain certain aspects of the story that were more glossed over in the YA version.  The entire experience then was quite interesting. 

The plot remains a bit over the top as does the authors love of outré conspiracy theories.  I would recommend this book (the adult version of the tale) to lovers of suspense who don’t mind a bit of the fantastic.