Dog Blood is the sequel to Hater (my review here) and I couldn’t have asked for a better novel. It’s fast paced, and even more mind bending than the first. The world is now divided between the Haters and the Unchanged. Families are divided and separated while the Unchanged try to hold off the Haters who will stop at nothing to destroy all the Unchanged.

The story picks up with Mark, Danny’s cousin, who is Unchanged and his survival in the city center with his pregnant wife, in-laws, Danny’s wife, and a secret. It shows just how much the world has changed since the Haters began to emerge. It then flips over the Danny, our main character from Hater, as he struggles to survive out in the world as a Hater. Danny moves from group to group and searching for his daughter, Ellis, who was taken along with his sons by his wife when she runs away from him. He heads back to the only place he knows to start his search and it only gets more interesting from there.

This is one that is so hard to describe without giving something important away and this is one that you really need to read yourself to experience the full effect of Moody’s well researched and thought provoking dystopian fiction. Read Haters, and then read Dog Blood. You won’t regret it.