He also, as good authors do, inserts little moments early in the book, that are resolved later on. But even then Strandberg keeps focused on his characters. It would have been easy to begin the horror much earlier than Blood Cruise does, but he lets it start small, with a mysterious boy and the woman he is with, then builds it in a controlled manner. Strandberg also takes his time developing the panic and terror. When the chaos begins on board and the characters strive to survive, he makes you care for them as you wonder who will live and die as the story progresses. There are other assorted characters that Strandberg introduces as well and he does with great skill. There is Marianne, a retired woman who makes a last minute decision to join the cruise Albin, a boy who’s adopted parents have their own issues, who wants to see his cousin Lo, only to discover she has changed Dan a washed-up minor singing star reduced to running the Karaoke on the ship Madde a woman who wants to have fun, hopefully with Dan Calle who has returned to the ship with his boyfriend with the intent on proposing. And it has the assorted characters you would expect. The basic set-up, we have seen before if I’m honest, in that Strandberg introduces his characters, with each chapter told from the point of view of one of them, with occasional chapters giving a more overview of events at key moments. It’s a damn good trilogy, well worth checking out.īlood Cruise, is more of an outright horror than the Engelsfors trilogy was. Mats Strandberg, the author of Blood Cruise, first came to my attention when, along with Sara B Elfgren, they co-authored The Engelsfors Trilogy, a series about a group of teenage girls who discover they are witches. On an overnight ferry between Sweden and Finland, what should have been a routine cruise becomes a night of terror as the passengers and crew find themselves under attack by people, who have become vampires….
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