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Dog Blood MP3 CD – Audiobook, June 8, 2010

by David Moody (Author), Gerard Doyle (Reader)

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The Earth has been torn apart. Everyone is either Human or Hater. Victim or killer. Major cities have become vast refugee camps where human survivors cower together in fear. Amidst this indiscriminate fighting and killing, Danny McCoyne is on a mission to find his daughter, Ellis. Free of inhibitions, unrestricted by memories of the previous world, and driven by instinct, children are pure Haters, and might well be the deciding factor in the future of the Hater race. But as McCoyne makes his way into the heart of human territory, an incident on the battlefield sets in place an unexpected chain of events, forcing him to question everything he believes he knows about the new order that has arisen, and the dynamic of the Hate itself.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Blackstone Audiobooks; Unabridged edition (June 8, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 144174049X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1441740496
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.3 x 0.6 x 7.4 inches

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David Moody sold the film rights to his novel HATER to Mark Johnson (producer, Breaking Bad) and Guillermo Del Toro (director, The Shape of Water, Pan's Labyrinth). His seminal zombie novel AUTUMN was made into a movie starring Dexter Fletcher and David Carradine. Moody has an unhealthy fascination with the end of the world and likes to write books about ordinary folks going through absolute hell. Find out more about his work at www.davidmoody.net and www.infectedbooks.co.uk.

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Tanya

If you like boring, this is not for you.

Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2017

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Love this guys books! I was reading the first one, "Hater", My teenage daughter followed me around trying to chat my ear off, while I was trying to read. This being the first book I have been able to actually read in more than 10 years, I decided to keep reading. So, I began to read aloud, lol. To let her know that I was ignoring her. She then sits quietly, listening. As I was turning a page, she excitedly hollars out, " Are you done, are you done? Can I read it now?". It was too funny. But she has now bought all of them. In the process of reading the third and has passed the first one to her brother. Seems the entire family really enjoys these books. No, they are not "Family" type of books. We just all love a great author. I do recommend reading them in order.

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mark twain

Wow, twist and turns in this one. Awesome.

Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2020

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The entire book is good, but the last third of this one I couldn’t put down. There are twists in this one that will give you the tingles. Love it. I would suggest reading Hater, the first book in this series, first. Looking forward to Them or Us and then the Autumn series next.

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Edward Green

moody goes wild

Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2012

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First of all read Moody's "Hater" book first otherwise you will be at a loss. I dont think there is a writer out there who speaks with a more visceral approach than Moody, you can almost see the visuals popping in your head and he is an exciting read. There is one odd difference between this book and Hater. The first book takes place in England and everyone of course talks like an Englishman with the slang,in the second book it still takes place in England of course but now everyone sounds like an American-obviously an editor changed everything and it is a bit disconcerting.
The book itself is a fun read but about 3/4 in Moody goes wild with exageration SPOILER ALERT--------------The haters are people who hate and want to kill but they dont have super human powers, they have uninhibited strength and are not afraid of dying, the last 100 pages Moody changes this for some reason and his daughter has the strength of 10 men and she is 5 years old-HUH? END SPOILER ALERT-----------this ending detracts from the rest of the book and brings what should be 5 stars to 3, I will still read the next installment but with more sobriety

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A Christy

Not Quite Up to "Hater" Standards, But Still A Good Read

Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2011

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Dog Blood is in a tough literary position. Being the middle book of a trilogy is a tough place to be in. The first book, Hater, had the benefit of surprise and the final book (when finally released) will have the benefit of driving the plot to it's conclusion. Dog Blood, on the other hand, has to drive the plot...but only so far. It has to maintain interest, but not close or open too many new storylines. I've given this 4 stars as credit due to the series but this book itself really deserves a plain 3.

***Slight Spoiling of Dog Blood ahead and assumed knowledge of Hater***

In Hater we really got to know Danny, our protagonist, as a person. We didn't spend too much time with him after his transition. Instead, we still held Danny as he was in our minds with this "new-zombie" overlay near the end. It was tight, sharp and infinitely pleasurable to read that book.

Following up with Danny in Dog Blood, we have lost our connection with him somewhat. When introduced to Hating in the first book, we understood he was compelled to do it and felt no real guilt over it, but we sensed his inherent conflict with it as a new condition. In Dog Blood we find someone who enjoys gory killing, seeks it out and feels complete only when doing it. Our Danny is lost and I find it difficult to ferret out if that loss is a purposeful story driver or if it is simply a lack in the writing itself.

There is so much less in terms of understandable internal dialog and sentient thought that I was slightly disappointed. One thing Hater had that no other book in the genre ever did was a thinking and complicated person at the center. Throughout Hater one never lost the connection with Danny, regardless of their status as human or Hater.

In Dog Blood, Danny has but two real trains of thought and those are to kill and find more people to kill and to find his daughter because he loves and wants to take care of her. For some reason this just doesn't work out like I think it was intended to. There are too many gaps in that. How can a person who no longer thinks about bathing, caring for their own wounds, sex, companionship or even the death of close compatriots be concerned with "caring for" a child? This new Danny tromps through horrible weather in rags and occassionally eats whatever is laying about. Yet he is intent upon finding his daughter and keeping her safe between bouts of killing. It just rings false somewhere. Keep her safe from what? Living like he does?

In short, our Danny no longer has the sense to come out of the rain but he is concerned that his daughter is in it. Those two thoughts don't go together.

Danny goes on to a tantalizing dilemna that may give us a hint of things to come. Is he slowing becoming cured? Is he a new and more moderate Hater? And what, exactly, is his daughter? All these little things add up to the best parts of the story and are tiny bread crumbs for the final installment.

***Super spoiling ahead in my final words, so be forewarned!***

I do have questions that just keep resonating. I suppose that may be contributing to this slight feeling of dissatisfaction with the book. The Haters all seem to have the ability to think, aside from the Brutes, and clearly understand consequences and logical trains of thought. So how can they not understand they are doomed? If all their children are unmanageable psychotics who show absolutely no sense of self and seek to simply tear apart humans, how can they hope to continue? They can't be dressed, fed, have their injuries tended to and do, as we saw, tear themselves and other Haters up to get to any humans. How can you teach a child who is only quiet when there are no humans in a mile radius? And even then they are simply silent and unresponsive. How can you teach them to even wash their cuts or make a nest of tree branches? If the Haters win, humanity is absolutely doomed because the only reason the adult Haters know anything is because there were once human. The children know nothing and never will. Is that perhaps what he is going toward? Will this turn out to be the way nature finally destroys humanity, by ensuring it can't survive as Haters after the rest of the humans are gone?

I did like this book but I didn't love it like I did Haters. This one I had no problem putting down to do other things while it would have been unthinkable to do so during my first or second read of Hater. Definitely recommend it in order to maintain continuity for the final book, but don't expect the same level of satisfaction that Hater brought.

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Tang Lang Quan

A Solid Sequel

Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2013

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Dog Blood was a solid sequel to Hater. Hater struck me as being a very original idea which is tough in the zombie/infected genre. I think the shock of the concept had worn off a bit when I started the second book. Moody still managed to make the story interesting by making it go places I would not have guessed. I highly recommend it, but definitely read Hater first.

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Tina

Good read...harsh language.

Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2013

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Good book. Love the storyline. Obviously it can be a bit gory and there is some harsh language, but it fits the story. Can't wait to see how the trilogy ends!

Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2015

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Bought series together and couldn't put them down. The whole story is just gripping and horrifying all at the same time. Loved it.

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Nick Boldt

Reads a bit like a first person shooter game

Reviewed in Canada on October 22, 2011

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Told mostly in first person, this book is very immersive, like playing a zombie-themed FPS game. Creepy and unnerving. Excellent followup to Hater, which starts out slow but then certainly takes off at a good clip, this book never slows down.

Looking forward to the sequel and more David Moody books as well.

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Mr Dave Lightfoot

A Great Sequel

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 3, 2011

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David Moody has managed to accomplish something that very few others can. He has created an outstanding sequel. This book is equal to if not better than Hater (the 1st book of the series). He has managed to evolve the story of Danny McCoyne, keeping true to the original but he has writen a completely new story. By this, I mean he hasn't just rehashed the original story. This is a sequel that adds a completely new dimension to the story. I loved it.

The sequel finds Danny a changed man. No longer scared of the present or the future. He is now a Fighter. Fighting for his very exsistance in a world that has gone mad with rage. He will do anything and he will kill anyone to succeed in his new environment. He has set himself a task, he will find his daughter and he will free her from the grasp of the unchanged. To do this Danny must not only fight his enimies but he must deceive his comrades in war. In a world that is split into two armies. Danny must be resourceful and brave to achieve his goals. Luckily for him, he has a few tricks up his sleeve.

I highly recommend this book to everyone who enjoys a thrilling, terrifying read. This book kept me on the edge of my seat from start to end, just like the first book HATER. Once again, David Moody has proved himself as a leading contender in horror fiction.

Parsec

In jeder Hinsicht kompromisslos!

Reviewed in Germany on June 19, 2010

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David Moody hat sich in den letzten Jahren durch konstant erstklassige Werke zu einem der meiner Ansicht nach wichtigsten neuen Horror-Autoren etabliert - und war mit seinem überragenden "Autumn" (dt. "Herbst") Zyklus Mitte des letzten Jahrzehnts wesentlich daran beteiligt, das das Zombie-Genre mittlerweile im ganz großen Stil zurück gekommen ist.

Offenkundig ist, dass David Moody ein echtes Faible für Apokalypsen hat...und das er nicht nur sehr gut schreiben kann, wenn es um Zombies geht, hat er auch mit seinen Frühwerken "Trust" und "Straight zu You" bewiesen - und vor allem mit dem 2006 erstmals erschienenen "Hater" (dt. "Im Wahn"), mit welchem er einen neue Trilogie begann und welcher wohl gerade auch verfilmt wird.

DOG BLOOD ist nunmehr der lange erwartete zweite Teil der Hater-Trilogie. Es ist somit kein eigenständiger Roman, und auch wenn man ihn durchaus lesen kann ohne den Vorgänger zu kennen kann nur empfohlen werden, "Hater" / "Im Wahn" vorher zu lesen - viele Nuancen der Geschichte mögen sonst auf der Strecke bleiben.

Die Prämisse von DOG BLOOD und Hater lautet wie folgt: in der Gegenwart teilt ein unerklärliches Ereignis die Menschheit - innerhalb weniger Tage entwickelt sich ein erheblicher Teil der Menschen, unabhängig von Alter, Geschlecht und Herkunft, zu Hatern, welche getrieben sind vom unstillbaren und psychotischen Bedürfnis, den anderen Teil zu vernichten. Im Endeffekt bilden sich also quer durch alle sonstigen Kategorien zwei Gruppen: die Hater und die Unchanged - und diese Gruppen stehen sich in einem gandenlosen Konflikt gegenüber, da es anscheinend unmöglich ist, das beide gemeinsam existieren können. Die Hater haben hierbei den Vorteil, dass sie durch ihren rasenden Hass stärker, leistungsfähiger und robuster werden - die Unchanged sind ihnen aber zahlenmäßig überlegen.

Wie man sich denken kann zerfällt durch dieses Ereignis die uns bekannte Zivilisation innerhalb weniger Wochen - und einige Monate nach den Ereignissen des Vorgängers setzt DOG BLOOD an. Der Kampf zwischen Hatern und Unchanged tobt mit unverminderter gnadenloser Brutalität, und während die Hater mehr und mehr beginnen die ländlichen Areale von den Unchanged zu säubern haben diese sich in Städten verschanzt. Eine klare Führung gibt es für beide Seiten nicht - und es regiert nach dem Zusammenbruch jeder Ordnung das blanke Chaos.

Der Hauptprotagonist Danny ist mittlerweile durch konstantes Kämpfen und Töten zu einer völlig anderen Person geworden als er noch Monate vorher war, und der wichtigste Inhalt seines Lebens ist (neben dem fast unstillbaren Drang weiter zu töten), seine fünfjährige Tochter Ellis zu finden, welche auch zum Hater wurde, was von ihrer nicht veränderten Mutter zunächst gar nicht erkannt wurde. So macht sich Danny in den Wirren des totalen Krieges auf die Suche nach seiner Tochter - und wird weiter in den immer mehr eskalierenden Vernichtungskrieg zwischen Hatern und Unchanged hineingezogen.

Wie auch der Vorgänger ist DOG BLOOD geprägt vom schonungslosen, manchmal direkt unbarmherzigen Stil von David Moody - dieser Autor nimmt sich nicht zurück, und geht in die Vollen, egal ob es um die Schilderung von brutalen Kämpfen, Schmerzen oder Emotionen geht. David Moody schreibt wie gewohnt sehr gut, plastisch und packend - und er hütet sich, seiner völlig apokalyptischen Geschichte zur Auflockerung irgendwelche heiteren Nuancen beizufügen. DOG BLOOD ist, noch mehr als Hater, ein kompromissloses Buch, welches fraglos polarisieren sollte.

Wie man sich nach all dem denken kann ist DOG BLOOD weiterhin ein sehr hartes Buch. Die gesamte Atmosphäre der Geschichte ist durchsetzt mit dem konstanten Konflikt zwischen zwei vermeintlich absolut unvereinbaren Gruppen - da Koexistenz nicht möglich ist bleiben nur die Alternativen Mord oder Flucht. Insofern ist dies ein Buch, welches mit schonungslosen und harten Schilderungen von Kämpfen beginnt - und welche weiter und weiter eskalieren.

Das soll nicht bedeuten, dass in diesem Buch sonst nichts geboten würde: ohne jetzt von der Geschichte etwas vorweg zu nehmen gibt es überraschende Entwicklungen im Metaplot, und auch global tut sich einiges. Die Geschichte tritt also nicht auf der Stelle, sondern steuert auf ein sehr furioses Finale zu - welches, wie man sich denken mag, den Auftakt zum dritten und letzten Teil dieses Zyklus bildet.

Gleichzeitig ist DOG BLOOD in vielem allegorisch zu verstehen: blinder Fanatismus, Selbstmordangriffe, Schläferzellen, Kadavergehorsam, Gleichgültigkeit vor dem Leiden anderer, Paranoia, der totale Krieg, Frustration und der vermeintliche Kampf und "uns" gegen "die anderen" sind beständige Themen, welche in dieser Geschichte mitschwingen.

Ich bin von DOG BLOOD begeistert: die Geschichte von Hater wird konsequent (mitunter schmerzhaft konsequent!) fortgesetzt, und David Moody spielt seine schriftstellerischen Stärken auch diesmal konsequent und kompromisslos aus. Wem Hater gefiel sollte DOG BLOOD unbedingt auf seinen Einkaufszettel schreiben - dieses Buch macht da weiter, wo Hater aufhörte.

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got this for one of the kids

Reviewed in Canada on September 20, 2013

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what can I say, the kid loved it, didn't put it down until it was done, will get other books from this author

Chris Hall

This is chaotic warfare, thrown at the reader in all its vicious and visceral glory...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 23, 2014

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First published back in June of 2010, British author David Moody’s novel ‘Dog Blood’ was the second instalment into his post-apocalyptic ‘Hater’ series. The novel followed on from the earlier instalment entitled ‘Hater’ (2006) and even more directly the connecting-short-story ‘Everything And Nothing’ (2010) that formed a short prequel to this second instalment.

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Danny McCoyne is now a new man. He has embraced the Hate that flows through him. Killing is his drug. A drug he is quickly becoming addicted to. But the numbers of Unchanged that they come across seem to be depleting. Searching them out for the kill is becoming harder and harder.

And now Danny realises that his violence-fuelled travels have brought him full circle back to him home turf. It all started here for Danny. Killing his father-in-law in their pathetically inadequate flat. That was the last time he saw Lizzie and his family. But what cuts into him the most is that was the last time he saw his daughter Ellis. His daughter who is one of them – a Hater.

With the Unchanged now gathering in large groups, protected by what’s left of their military presence, the Haters need to modify their tactics if they are to win the war. No longer can they stay fighting their own individual battles. They need to start working together. Become organised in their efforts to wipe out the Unchanged.

Meanwhile, Mark Tillotsen is holed-up in a small hotel room within the crammed city centre along with his pregnant wife Kate, her elderly parents and his cousin’s wife Lizzie. In the adjoining bathroom, Lizzie has her young daughter tied-up and sedated. These are necessary measures to stop her from killing them all. Necessary measures to protect them all from the young girl’s fundament hate. The young girl’s name is Ellis. Danny McCoyne’s daughter.

Mark has been working with the military and what’s left of the government, going out of their secure perimeter in the heart of the city centre to replenish their desperately dwindling supplies or round up any fellow Unchanged survivors to bring back to their military protected area. In return for the missions, he and his family are given extra rations. The risk is worth it for Mark. But he’s already noticed that the risk is getting worse by the day. There’s only so much longer he can continue putting his neck on the line this way.

Meanwhile, en route to his home turf where he hopes to find his daughter Ellis, Danny meets up with a band of fellow Haters who are beginning to get organised. Headed-up by a fellow Hater named Preston, and responding to the calls for a more organised warfare by ex-politician and ex-governmental Defence advisor Chris Adkins, the group are working together, taking the time to plan their assaults in order to make the most impact. And they believe that children are the key to winning the war.

But it all goes horrendously wrong for Danny when he flees from a battle with the Unchanged that was nothing more than a trap to lure in Haters for the slaughter, and subsequently finds himself being taken prisoner. Tied down within a dark room, with no food or water, Danny is at the mercy of his Unchanged captives. But they have other plans for Danny. Because they have been looking out for Haters like him. Haters who don’t just rush into the fight, ignoring all dangers. Haters who show signs of weighing up the situation. Haters who can ultimately hold off the Hate. The war is not over just yet for Danny McCoyne...

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After four long years, the sequel to Moody’s incredible novel ‘Hater’ (2006) is finally released. Anticipation and bated-breaths for the continuation of the same unrelenting fury as the first instalment were understandably high. And Moody doesn’t disappoint.

From the very outset the savage brutality of the novel hits the reader full in the face, hitting the ground running, exactly from where the intermediary short story (and anticipation-whetting prequel to this novel) ‘Everything And Nothing’ (2010) had left off. Indeed, from early on a number of the elements from the short are simply carried on further, such as with the tag-along young Hater, Adam, and the return to his homeground on the edge of the big city (although unnamed it’s undoubtedly the author’s our locale of Birmingham).

The action and adrenaline-pumping violence is never too far from the progression of the storyline, with Moody constantly keeping a firm finger on the throbbing pulse of the tale. What’s more, all around the progressing storyline is a blanket backdrop of a gradually decaying world, with ravaged urban environments falling into nothing more than corpse littered piles of rubble overflowing with raw sewage. The oppressive grittiness of the novel is always there, marking out the utterly dire situation of this dog-eat-dog war.

The novel is once again predominantly written in the first-person-perspective of Danny McCoyne. However, outside of the odd descriptive passages detailing the constant downfall of what’s left of society and the decaying environment that the Unchanged are trying to live within, a fair number of chapters are given over to the substory of Mark Tillotsen and his desperate family. These chapters, which are interspersed throughout the novel, are told in a third-person narration, making a clear and easy distinction between scenes from behind the eyes of a Hater (i.e. Danny McCoyne) and observing the struggling survival of an Unchanged refugee family (i.e. Mark and family).

Moody has purposefully pushed the novel further along the route that ‘Hater’ (2006) had just started along as it drew to an end. Now, with the Haters waging war against the vast numbers of the Unchanged that outnumber them quite considerably, Moody steps the progression of the storyline up a good few notches; starting to bring the Haters together into a more organised side to face down their rivals. In doing so, the whole tone of the novel shifts to a different level, with more emphasis put on the idea of this being an all-out war than one-on-one fighting.

Like within Moody’s zombie-saga series ‘Autumn’ (2002), Moody begins to look at the evolution of the Haters themselves, bringing in ingrained differences, such as with the uncontrollable and unrelenting ‘Brutes’. With Moody’s careful examination of the actual urge behind the Haters want to kill, which, like with Simon Clark’s ‘Blood Crazy’ (1995), is incorporated into the very crux of the plot, he has managed to develop a solid backbone for the reader’s growing understanding of what is going on for the Haters themselves.

Once again it must be said that Moody has bravely taken on a very difficult and challenging angle. Having the novel’s narrated by a Hater, our principal protagonist himself being a vicious bloodthirsty killer with no remorse for his actions whatsoever. Using the word protagonist in this context somehow seems very wrong. But then is Danny McCoyne not still the tale’s protagonist, even in the face of his actions? You’re either a Hater or a Hated. It’s as simple and black and white as that. And who’s to say which side is the right side now? The rules have changed. Moody cut them down a long time ago.

The novel’s finale and ending is utterly superb. It’s a heart-in-mouth bombardment of violence, terror, stretched-emotions and heavy military retaliation. It’s chaotic warfare, thrown at the reader in all its vicious and visceral glory. And it just keeps on pounding away until the very last page.

The final instalment, entitled ‘Them Or Us’ (2011) finished off this ultra-violent and unashamedly intense Hater trilogy.

The novel runs for a total of 279 pages.

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