Blood Price Becomes Blood Ties
As I mentioned last week, Tanya Huff’s “Blood” series is being made into a television show. For your edification, the books in this series are Blood Price, Blood Trail, Blood Lines, Blood Pact, Blood Debt, and a collection of short stories. The show itself is called Blood Ties, and it premiered on Lifetime last Sunday at 10pm with a two-hour long episode called Blood Price. The basics from the books were there: Vicki Nelson, former policewoman now Private Investigator who is losing her sight; Henry Fitzroy, bastard son of Henry VIII who is also a vampire; and Mike Celluci, Vicki’s former partner. I was also happy to see that the story still takes place in Toronto. (All you Forever Knight fans may be amused now. There is a new Vampire in TO.) The show itself had its cheesy and predictable moments, but on the whole I quite enjoyed it. The actors did a great job, and I had fun playing “what have I seen you in before?” while I was watching. The first episode was mostly drawn from the first book of the same name. I did notice that Henry is a graphic novelist rather than a romance novelist, but that wasn’t a major change. Obviously, the storyline was greatly simplified overall, but I shall be interested to see how the closely the rest of the series sticks to the books. I will definitely be tuning in next week…and I think that I’ll read book one again. Did anyone else see the show? What did you think?
Tanya Huff, Blood Price, Blood Trail, Blood Lines, Blood Pact, Blood Debt, Blood Ties, Forever Knight
April 1st, 2007 at 8:43 am
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