Bloody Good (Brytewood, #1)

Bloody Good (Brytewood #1)

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While the sounds of battle echo through the sky, a lady doctor has more than enough trouble to keep her busy even in a sleepy hamlet outside London. But the threat is nearer her home than Alice knows. German agents have infiltrated her beloved countryside - Nazis who can fly, read minds, and live forever. They're not just fascists. They're vampires.

Alice has no time for f...more
Mass Market Paperback, 300 pages
Published June 1st 2009 by Kensington
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The Holy Terror
This book started out really well but about halfway through it became just barely enjoyable. It honestly felt like a poor attempt by a new author, but unfortunately, for Georgia Evans at least, this was not her first novel. Evans also writes paranormal romances under the name Rosemary Laurey so she should have some sort of idea of how to write a coherent and well-thought out novel. Bloody Good just wasn't successful and became increasingly annoying.

The novel starts out with introducing Alice, a...more
Book Chick City
This is the first book in Georgia Evans' World War 2 paranormal series. I found this book really easy to get into from the first page and I was taken to a place that is quintessentially English, with lots of tea drinking and gossiping. This is quite true of English culture, we do like to drink lots of tea, and we do like to sit around and have a good gossip while drinking it: it's just what we do!

There's great atmosphere to this book and you really get an essence of English country life during t...more
CJ - Secret Charm
I'm not entirely sure what I feel about this book. On one hand, it was very interesting in the sense that it turned the second WW on it's head with the idea that the Nazi's used vampires and the Fae.

On the other, I felt like the book was written incongruously. We have a historical bent and the characters for the most part acted accordingly - yet, and I who rarely get weirded out by sex scenes, felt that there was something not "right" about the graphic nature of the sex scenes. Not that they wer...more
Shannon (Savhage Temptrest)
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John
This has to be one of the oddest little books I've ever read. The first in a Trilogy, It's mainly a quaint little portrait of life in a small English Village during WWII. Throw in a mix involving a small group of invading Nazi Vampires battling it out mildly & occasionally with A Conscientious Objector, the local Doctor and her Grandmother, & the local villagers among which are some secretly Shapeshifting "Others" w/ double lives as :Pixies, A dragon, & a Vixen to name a few. There i...more
Ross
Bloody awful. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with the idea: the Nazis make some kind of deal with vampires, the vampires get dropped into Britain in order to make havoc and generally prep the area for an upcoming Nazi invasion. A little out there, but what the hell. One of the vampires is assigned to a small village located a short distance from a munitions factory. A town that boasts: a witch, a pixie, and her half pixie grandaughter, a dragon (that looks human most of the time) and a wer...more
Candace
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Sarai
I'm not sure if I liked this book or not. It was not horrible and I do kind of want to read the next in the series; however, I did have some issues with it.

This takes place in WWII and the Nazis have sent four vampires to England to sabotage and wreak havoc. One arrives in Brytewood, where Dr. Alice Doyle and her grandmother live. Alice's grandmother is a Pixie and has been trying to convince the scientific Alice all her life of her own Pixie powers. There is also a resident dragon and a shapesh...more
Nan
Nov 11, 2009 Nan rated it 1 of 5 stars Recommends it for: no one
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Vickie
I enjoyed this fast moving, multi-character story. I am very glad it's a trilogy and the second one is in the stack to read fairly soon. It would be soonest, but I am not keen on reading any author back to back, so will give something else a go....see what happens when I read a British mystery?
I look forward to seeing what other 'Other' folks live in Brytewood. So far, there are Pixies, a Dragon, a were-fox, and the dread vampires who are working for the Nazis. I liked the implied comparison of...more
 Tina (Fantastic Book Review)
Alice Doyle stumbles upon an injured stranger and being a Doctor, it’s her duty to patch him up. After this encounter, the stranger mysteriously disappears and strange occurrences start to happen across town.

Alice Doyle finds herself baffled when bodies turn up drained dry….What is a girl to do?

Alice soon discovers Nazi vampires hiding among the local folk causing havoc across the land led by Gerhardt Eiche. With Gerhardt Eiche's thirst for victory, it’s up to Alice to stop the Nazi vampires fro...more
Serena
"This was not, he was convinced, some foppish, effete English vampire. This was one of his Aryan brothers. The brain rhythm was strong and reassuringly familiar. He'd sensed the same in his homeland in the Hartz Mountains. Only one other vampire hailed from that part of Germany. Could it truly be Gerhardt Eiche, or as he no doubt posed himself: Gabriel Oak?" (Page 18)

Georgia Evans' portrayal of Germany's invasion of surrounding European nations by the Nazi party as the backdrop for her novel set...more
Liz
Bloody Good is the first in a trilogy featuring Nazi vampires (“Nazi vampires? That seems like overkill.” – my mom) who have been sent to England during World War II to help take down the English from within.

The story takes place in the village of Brytewood where Dr. Alice Doyle in high demand since male doctors are, for the most part, working in the military branches. Her little hometown of Brytewood is full of not only the normal occupants, but evacuees from London. It’s too busy for Alice and...more
Lori (Pure Imagination)
Alice is trying to live a ordinary life. Just making house calls and running her surgery, But when she picks up a wounded stranger and takes him to her surgery it won't be long before she will have to start listening to all her Grandmother's talk of Other folk.
Peter is living a hard life with a tragic past. When the Nazis drop Vampires in his new home as spies it will be up to him and Alice to save all of England.

I liked this book more than I thought I would. It's a original plot and the charact...more
Jo  (Mixed Book Bag)
Bloody Good is a another take on vampires. Like dragons, pixies and shape changers vampires are one of the Others who still live among normal humans. The time is World War II, the place is a small village outside of London, and the characters are a mix of Others and normal humans. The German’s have dropped vampires in the area with the goal of helping the German invasion of England. Things don’t go as planned thanks to the mix of Othersand humans already living in the area. They do whatever it t...more
Cheryl
The Nazi's are planning an attack on England. They have dropped off four of their operatives. Their names are Gerhardt Eiche, Wilhelm Bloch, Hans Weiss, and Paul Schmidt. It might be a little hard to spot these Nazi's as they are ...vampires!

There is a slight change in plans, when the plane the vamps are on starts nose diving and they have to bail out in the small town of Brytewood.

Dr. Alice Doyle comes upon a man badly wounded. He has fallen out of a tree. She takes him back home and patches h...more
Sheila
I enjoyed this book. It is the beginning of a paranormal trilogy set in Brytewood, England. It is WWII and the Nazis have parachuted vampires in to help in their invasion of England. Alice Doyle is the doctor in Brytewood. She is given a CO as an assistant and judges him harshly for not serving in the military. As evacuees come into the neighborhood and Nazi bombings occur Alice is in a mystery of how people and animals are drained of blood. She does not believe in anything outside of science bu...more
Donna
Set during World War II, this book is about Nazi vampires attempting sabotage in a rural English area with its own supernatural population. The main characters are a skeptical female doctor and the Conscientious Objector who has been sent as her new assistant.

I liked the premise and style of the story, but a lot of the character interactions felt off. For example, it was supposed to be a big deal that the hero was a CO. But beyond a small amount of initial friction, that didn't affect things muc...more
Lynn Calvin
I got a recommendation for the three books by this author on one of my email lists and it's a good one. The cover style emulation of the Sookie Stackhouse books is duly warranted.

High concept on this is Nazi bad vampires in WW2 England being brought down by various supernatural entities. (Secret history - the supernatural isn't out in the open like it is in a lot of this sort of book.)

I'd recommend these to romance readers - it appears that they will be separate stories with on ongoing plot arc,...more
Vickiek
This was a cute story. It isn't very meaty, but I would recommend it for someone whose between books and waiting for one of their fav authors to publish something new. The prose and writing are well done, and main characters very likeable. I tend to prefer books that don't villianize vampires, which this one does. Basically, vamps are used by germany during ww2 to sabotage england. The vampires aren't reslly written about much. There are a few short chapters dedicated to them, specifically one i...more
Kelly
I'm always glad to see a vampire novel that moves away from stereotypical plots and settings. So, when I learned that Georgia Evans's Brytewood Trilogy was set in England during World War II and that its vampires were Nazi secret agents, I was immediately intrigued.

Bloody Good is at its best when depicting the struggles of ordinary country folk during the war. Through the many neighborly chats that fill these pages, the reader gets an idea of what it might have been like to deal with air raids,...more
Carien
The idea of this book is cool: who can resist reading a story about nazi vampires!? I couldn't anyway. But it turns out an idea is not enough. The story is too easy in my opinion, there's hardly any real struggle. Now don't get me wrong: I like a happy ending as much as the next pig, but I want the characters to sweat at least a little along the way to that happy ending. And there were way too little nazi vampires in this book too! There's two more books in this series, so maybe there will be mo...more
Korynn
The cover, which seems a little too similar to a Sookie Stackhouse book, only vaguely pertains to the story. The plot is simple enough - it's World War II in a little village in Britain and the Germans are coming. However, in this case, the Germans infiltrating the village are vampires. But that's only the set-up, as the real story is the romance, that of a lovely village doctor and a young man, madly attracted to one another but through various missteps (the old yes-no-yes-no) and meetings (fan...more
Jenny J
Argh! This could have been so good! A paranormal romance set in rural England during WW2, about the life on the home front and the relationship between a female country Doctor (who's half-Pixie) and a conscientious objector. With parachuting vampire saboteurs working with the Nazis. I could have dealt with the cheese factor, but the romance angle of the story didn't work for me -- the "I love you" was way too easy and way too early in the book. The supernatural element was a treat, but I would h...more
Noodle
It seems a bit strange writing a book review when so much is happening in Christchurch right now, but I guess a bit of a distraction from the news channel, which is on constantly in the background, can't be bad thing.

Finished Bloody Good by Georgia Evans.

I'm on a quest to read as many different types of vampire stories as I can find. This one was about WWII & vampire Nazis. Ha!

What did it get?

‎6/10:"Good light-weight read, well done" on the NBRS.

Not sure it's enough to make me read the n...more
Maria
Alice, a lady doctor in a sleepy hamlet outside of London has had some major changes in he life. Mysterious patients disappearing, corpses missing blood, and a conscientious objector are giving her second thoughts about facts that she's always known.

Why I picked this book up: Vampires, Nazis and Pixies, oh my!

Why I finished this book: British humor in a small town during World War II. My favorite genres mixing it up.

Who I would recommend this book to: Anglophiles who understand that British fic...more
Anna
Bloody Good is the first book in a supernatural trilogy set in England during World War II that asks, “What if the Nazis had recruited vampires to perform some of their dirty deeds?” Obviously, Georgia Evans (a pen name for the author Rosemary Laurey) asks us to suspend belief, and if you are able to do so, Bloody Good offers a light, entertaining read on what normally would be a heavy topic.

Vampires are roaming the English countryside, and they are working for the Nazis. A fairy is held prisone...more
MarsianMan
An interesting paranormal romance about a female doctor who meets and instantly dislikes the Conscientious Objector (someone who refuses to go to war) that is assigned as her male nurse. All is not right with the neighborhood as a dying man goes missing and strange occurrences are happening near the town.

It was a light and fun novel even though it felt fluffy and trivial. It was a fairly quick read in spite of it not being very tense. Looking forward to seeing what happens in the next novels.
Jacqie
Got about a hundred pages in. It started fine- interesting backdrop of the English countryside under the Blitz- seemed very detailed and realistic. Characters were fine. I read about 40 pages and looked forward to picking it up again. Then the second time, it just didn't draw me in at all. I didn't care anymore about the lady doctor, the charming conscientious objector ambulance driver, the potty-yet-wise grandmother, or even the vampires. Don't know what happened. It was probably me.
Jennifer
I am not sure if this is just because I'm becoming such an anglophile, but I was totally entertained by this book. Not over-the-top exciting in any way, but thoroughly enjoyable. I drank about ten pots of tea while reading it (power of suggestion) It takes place during WW2 in a small English Village where vampires in employ of the Nazis, are invading. Ridiculous? yep, totally-but a fun summer read. (although who am i kidding, I read this stuff all year round)
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Georgia Evans is the pseudonym I use for my Fantasy books. I'm better known as Rosemary Laurey.

The Brytewood books are a different venture from my Paranormal Romance and this series is very special to me as I grew up in the Mole Valley - the setting for my imaginary village - and some of my earliest childhood memories are of seeing the damage wrought on the area by the Blitz, and listening to stor...more
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