The Hematophages centres around Paige, a seemingly accomplished and confident Doctoral Student. It appears that everything Kozeniewski writes is so damn readable! It’s annoying, really.

I’m a bit of a gore-fiend, and that came in spades, and 2. On one hand, I expected to like it because I’ve enjoyed many of Stephen Kozeniewski’s previous books ( Braineater Jones, Hunter of the Dead and The Ghoul Archipelago), but on the other hand, I don’t have a huge capacity for deep-space colony settings/ hardcore sci-fi novels. In just a few short, bone-chilling hours Paige learns that there are no limits to the depravity and violence of the grotesque nightmares known as…THE HEMATOPHAGES Review These lamprey-like monstrosities are used to swimming freely in an ocean of blood, and will happily spill a new one from the veins of the outsiders who have tainted their home. The area is also crawling with pirates like the ghoulish skin-wrappers, known for murdering anyone they can’t extort.īut the greatest threat to Paige’s mission is the nauseating alien parasites which infest the fleshworld. Flying outside charted space means competing corporations can shoot them on sight rather than respect their salvage rights. Whatever she’s looking for, though, rests in the blood-like seas of a planet-sized organism called a fleshworld.ĭangers abound for Paige and her shipmates. Paige is convinced she’s been enlisted to find the legendary Manifest Destiny, a long-lost colonization vessel from an era before the corporations ruled Earth and its colonies. But when she’s offered a small fortune to join a clandestine salvage mission, she jumps at the chance to leave the cutthroat world of academia behind. Publication Details: April 1st 2017 by Sinister Grin Pressĭisclosure? Yep! I received a free copy in exchange for an HONEST review.ĭoctoral student Paige Ambroziak is a “station bunny” – she’s never set foot off the deep space outpost where she grew up.

Braineater Jones by Stephen Kozeniewski