At the end of 'Hater' the world was dividing between the regular humans (the unchanged) and the haters. In 'Dog blood' the haters have started to organize in order to wipe out the unchanged. Danny joins a rag-tag militant group, at the same time as he is trying to find his daughter, who is also a hater and still in her unchanged mother's care.

My biggest problem with this book, was that I had so few characters that I had any hope of relating to. The haters don't care about anything other than killing the unchanged and surviving. They don't even care about each other much. They don't have friends or lovers, and once you're unable to fight you are pretty much worthless. The author has given Danny more emotional depth than the average hater comes equipped with, but he is still more rabid animal than human. when you weigh those two things against each other, it isn't really possible to sympathize with Danny or to become very interested in him as a character, yet most of the story is told from his perspective.

I wasn't really sure whether to give the book two or three stars. The writing was good, I thought. Better than in Hater. The author does a great job of creating side-characters that are so aggravating they make your skin crawl. But I landed on two stars in the end, because of the problems I mentioned before.