Rating: 3 stars
Joe Pitt is back. After hiding out in the Bronx for a year, he runs afoul of a sadistic, crippled vampyre named Lament and, ultimately, gets tapped on the shoulder by Dexter Pedro. The Coalition Clan boss needs Pitt to be the inside man for a very serious job: Amanda, the genius biotech heiress he saved several years back, has come of age and come into her inheritance. What does she plan to do with her money and smarts? Why, start a Clan and find a cure for the Vyrus, of course! Is it possible? Maybe. Is it probable? Unlikely. If she succeeds, Pedro stands to lose his empire. If she fails, all the bloodsuckers that gathered under her are going to turn Manhattan into a feeding frenzy, which will lead to the inevitable Crusade against vampyre kind. It's a lose/lose situation.
So Pedro wants Pitt to convince her it's a bad idea; his reward for services rendered will be veritable diplomatic immunity amongst the Clans in Manhattan. The problem is, he doesn't get immunity until he succeeds and until then, every other Clan in Manhattan is gunning for him. Pitt burned a lot of bridges on his way out to Queens and when his old friends catch up to him, there's not going to be a lot of love between them. So it's a race against time and a game of cat and mouse all rolled into one. The odds are crappy and Pitt still has that ulterior motive for getting back on the island. Is it possible to play every vampyre in Manhattan against each other and still come out on top?
Every Last Drop, book four of the Joe Pitt novels was, honestly, a letdown. It was kind of like a recap episode for a TV series: they touched on a lot of past events and it was nice to see the familiar faces, but we're still at the same spot we where when we left off last time. Nothing substantial happened; a few situations were fleshed out, a bit of mythology was added to the series. But I was expecting war with this book when I finished Half the Blood of Brooklyn. Here we are a year later and we're pretty much just spinning wheels. This is definitely for diehards only; you could probably skip from book 3 to book 5 (when it comes out) and not miss anything.
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Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date: September 2008
ISBN-13: 9780345495884