Archive for Vampire Books
New Morganville Vampire Book – Black Dawn
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This was a really solid follow-up to the previous vampire book in this series, Last Breath. If you have been following the story then you know that there has been a major story arc happening here with the draug showing up in Morganville. Since they are pretty much the only thing a vampire fears, and with good reason, having them show up in Morganville is definitely bad news.
Warning, there are some major changes in the story this time around, the biggest one being that one of the major characters dies. I won’t tell you who, that is for you to read and find out. But we know that these days you pretty much have to kill off one of your major characters to stay in the running, so if J.R. Rawlings can get away with it, you do it. But it does work in the story, and I have to say that it is a pretty spectacular and bloody death.
There is plenty of shifting of POV, and I feel that this makes it a better story because I love it when this is done well. Here we get a chance to see the POV of each couple and it really helps the story. And, best of all, Shane really shines in this vampire book. The story moves along pretty fast in Black Dawn, and with the current story arc getting resolved in this vampire book that leaves us ready for the next story.
So what is next for the vamps and all in Morganville? Will life get back to normal, if there is such a thing? We will all just have to watch for the next book!
Vampire Interrupted Sizzles and Burns
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Title: Vampire Interrupted
Author: Lynsay Sands
Released:April 1, 2012
Pages: 336
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Lynsay Sands is just one of those authors who completely nails the concept of the paranormal romance in her Argeneau Vampires series. This sprawling series looks at a family of vampires over hundreds of years and each book spotlights a different couple, showing us their history and how they came together.
In this one, we meet Marguerite Argeneau, who has been a background character in many of the previous books. She has for the last seven hundred years been struggling to find herself and now she feels she is finally making some headway by starting with a new career, as a private investigator. She is on the quest for her very first assignment when she hits her first glitch.
Her client has asked her to track down his mother, not a small request when the client is an immortal. But she feels confident she is well on her way to delivering the news he wants when she wakes up one morning with a sword at her throat. This is when she first begins to understand that this job may be a bit more then she can handle.
Lucky for Marguerite she has a protector in the form of Julius Notte, who may not seem like one at the beginning but you will soon warm to him. Of course, so does Marguerite, for the two are destined to be soul mates. But first she has to overcome his need to stop her from fulfilling her assignment, and he must stop her from doing things that will get her killed.
As usual with a Sands book, Vampire Interrupted is a light hearted romance, though still one with vampires in it. I do like how she manages despite the dangers and action to keep the books feeling like the light romance they truly are. We know that these two are going to end up together, these books all have their HEA ending, but it is the fun in seeing it happen that makes the series so enjoyable. Oh – and you never have to have read any others in the series to enjoy them, although it is nice to do so as we get introduced to many of the couples in other books in the series. But with the whole hearted romance of a book like Vampire Interrupted you can also just sit back and enjoy.
Soul Bound is Hot YA Vampire Tale
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Even though Soul Bound is actually part of the Blood Coven series, I found myself enjoying this vampire tale without having read all the rest of the series. The basics are easy to pick up on, Rayne and Sunny are twins and from their names you can pretty much pick up on their personalities, no subtlety there. Even though Rayne was the one that really wanted to be a vampire, it was Sunny who got bit and ended up with Magnus as her vampire boyfriend.
Magnus bit her by mistake, thinking she was her sister so it wasn’t that surprising that Sunny decided to drink from the Holy Grail to return her to human. But when the two disobey Pyrus, the powerful Vampire Lord who controls the Vampire Consortium and has his eye on ruling the world next, they must run and hide.
It doesn’t help much when Rayne, who works for Slayer Inc., since she in enamored of all things vampire, is told her next assignment is to bring in her sister and the boyfriend to The Consortium to answer for their crimes. Not to comply with the order means death for the Blood Coven and to do so will betray her sister. Poor Rayne, she seems to always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop! It doesn’t exactly help matters any when a god shows up making demands of her as well.
The story gets pretty dark in places for a YA vampire tale, but the action is fast-paced and if you have read the previous vampire tale books in the series you will see that both the girls, but especially Rayne are doing a lot of growing up in this book. The dilemmas Rayne faces force her to make some adult decisions, and we finally see her stopping the whining that was starting to really annoy me at the beginning and start taking charge. In the end, Soul Bound is a really enjoyable vampire tale and one that leaves me wanting to learn more about this series.
