I’m not pretending my writing is what the world needs. But it doesn’t hurt anyone, and it could help a little, so I might as well. In case you somehow navigated here without hearing Civil Blood‘s pitch, I usually sum up the story as “the class-action vampire rights trial to determine who gets to be called human, as told by the people assigned to kill its plaintiff.” There’s a bat virus in it, but it’s a lyssavirus rather than a coronavirus, so my application to be the next prescient prophet is firmly rejected. The book is a 400-pager, so it’s a decent time sink. “Behind the judge’s bench stands an American flag, a Virginian flag and, on the wall, the state seal. A woman with a spear, a helmet, and an unbound breast is trampling a man beneath her, with Latin words meaning ‘thus ever to tyrants.’ John Wilkes Booth said that phrase when he pulled the trigger. Civil Blood: The Vampire Rights Case That Changed a Nation And yet here the words stay, suggesting bloodshed is not only part of legal proceedings but somehow can give them a blessing.” Aidan Lawrence echoed those words when he detonated a vest filled with fishing weights and Semtex in the Supreme Court. Note: This post contains spoilers for Civil Blood‘s ending. #Chris brown wall to wall vampire trial.
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