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This is a wonderful story full of emotion and plot twists and turns. The author has represented the period expertly, transporting me through time to a long gone past. I highly recommend this novel.


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The Bloodless Boy Robert J Lloyd Books Reviews

This is an excellent novel. Robert Lloyd has created an exciting, rough, shadowy London, and I enjoyed every minute I spent in it. I love historical fiction, but it's very hard to find novels in which the real historical characters feel like part of the same story as the new characters - this is one of those rare books.

The Bloodless Boy is much more than a historical crime thriller it's a rich exploration of the golden age of scientific discovery in the late 1600s. I really felt like I was experiencing the first autopsies and vacuum experiments. But it's also a believable, warm human story, whose characters draw you in from a rugged, wry Charles II to the ambitious and shapeshifting Robert Hooke, and with a very sympathetic hero (Harry Hunt).

Without giving the plot away, don't read this while you are eating or drinking there are some hair-raising sequences that made me choke on my dinner.

Above all, the writing is intelligent, evocative and rich. You feel like you're in the hands of an old-fashioned master storyteller like Patrick O'Brian. If you enjoyed An Instance of the Fingerpost or the Shardlake series, you'll love it; but it's also for readers who just love good fiction. Recommended.
I did not warm up to the "murder mystery" plot until I was about halfway through the book. I was too distracted early on by repeated trips to Wikipedia looking up the names of the historical characters, London landmarks, and Papist plots against Charles II. Note to the author Try dividing your list of characters into historical and fictional at the start of the book so I can get this out of the way before starting the story. Also put a period map of London with the area most visited in the book so I can orient myself instead scratching my head over which way someone was going.

Now then, there are two stories going on here. One is historical and one a murder mystery of the bloodless boy(s). I loved the research done that lent such atmosphere to the book. The hero of our story must solve the mystery of the "murders" of young boys drained of their blood while others with their own agendas and dirty little secrets worked to thwart him. There are other murders to be solved along the way that put our hero in mortal danger. I did NOT see the ending coming. Nicely ended by the author while leaving an opening for a sequel starring our hero.

I would have given the book five stars for weaving so many "little mysteries" in with the main one from the title while transporting us back to the period following England's civil war and post 1666 conflagration in London BUT I was just too darned distracted researching the characters and locations. If you aren't the type to bother, you can enjoy a five star read instead of my four star one.
Fit for time passing when no other option is available. Incidently we learn something about England and British customs.
Blech! So boring and so hard to follow, I quit after about 20 pages. Yuck
After each chapter I had to read just one more before turning lights out, then just one more....
More please!
I read the sample and was hooked (pun intended) . Who wouldn't be? The corpse of an infant boy drained of his blood is found on the mud flats of London's river front. Who done it and why is answered as young scientific investigator becomes entangled in plots to murder the king and incite hatred for Catholicism. Intrigue, betryal, revenge, violence, tevelation, and justice of a sort--what more could you ask for?
This novel was very thought out and engaging. I am hoping Mr. Lloyd writes another novel that is as well researched and entertaining as this one.
This is a wonderful story full of emotion and plot twists and turns. The author has represented the period expertly, transporting me through time to a long gone past. I highly recommend this novel.