A review by reubenalbatross
Books Of Blood Omnibus 2: Volumes 4-6 by Clive Barker

Did not finish book. Stopped at 43%.

I'm sad that I felt the need to DNF this, but I just wasn't enjoying my time. I read Volumes 1-3 a few ago and remembered really enjoying them, but these haven't lived up the them. I don't know if I've changed, or if the quality is different. 

All of the stories felt pretty pedestrian. Even the weirder ones were mainly boring day-to-day stuff, with little inserts of horror. 

I rated the stories I finished as follows, but the high ratings feel generous looking back. I think I was rating with too much optimism...

Volume 4 -  

'The Body Politic' - 5 stars - nice and scary
'The Inhuman Condition' - 3 stars - was interesting, but the ending made no sense to me at all...
'Revelations' - 3.5 stars - a different kind of horror, and not one that did much for me
'Down, Satan! - 4 stars - creepy, but I wanted more descriptions of the gross
'The Age of Desire' - 5 stars - I'm sorry, what?

Volume 5 -

'The Forbidden' - 2 stars - maybe 2 pages out of 37 were actually scary/of interest. The rest was pretty mundane - just a posho woman walking around an estate