Stoker Meets Doyle With A Touch Of The MCU Approach. If you love the non-sparkly, dark, horrific, brooding, *evil* vampire lore... you're gonna love this book. If you love the Sherlock Holmes type detective tale, perhaps with a more solo "beat people until they give you answers" Batman/ Jack Reacher type bent... you're gonna love this book. If you like MCU style storytelling with a shared universe with lots of different well known characters... you're gonna love this book.
Here, Holloway clearly shows that he too is a massive fan of all of the above, and he uses his skills as a writer to manage to combine elements of each into a cohesive tale that works both on its own and works to set up a "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" type saga. At just under 300 pages, this isn't the shortest book out there, but it provides just enough... *ahem* red meat *ahem*... to tell its tale well without overstaying its welcome (a danger, with these types of characters, just sayin) and while effectively both satisfying the reader of this tale and leaving them wanting a subsequent tale in this shared universe.
Meaning the book did its job on all fronts, and did them all well.
Now I just need y'all to fall in love with this book and start preaching its wonders so we can see how far Holloway can take it. ;)
Very much recommended.