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I liked it, but it was moving way too slow to keep my interest for very long. It was a little too heavy on the fluffy romance and I didn't feel like I really new the main characters well enough to really care what was happening to them.
I have to say, I fully enjoyed this newest installment of The House of Night series. This one moved a little faster than Burned and kept me hooked from the first page. At first I was a little disappointed in Zoey as she seemed to be running away - hiding - from the real world and all she had to face. I was glad when she realized that she needed to go home. That the House of Night and Tulsa, Oklahoma was were she belonged. I am also liking how we're now getting not just Zoey's perspective in the first person, but now the perspectives of the other characters - even if it's more in the third person, it still works for me.
I am looking forward to the next book coming out in the Fall.
I am looking forward to the next book coming out in the Fall.
Blood Bound by Rachel Vincent
Paranormal Romance writer Rachel Vincent has done it again! She has created a dark, dangerous, gritty world in which knowing someone’s full, true name is power and where paranormal abilities are exploited for the advancement and power of the syndicate – run on the opposite sides of the town by Jake Towers and Ruben Cavazos – a bad guy you can’t help but end up liking . . . just a little bit.
In Blood Bound, the debut book in the new Unbound series, we meet Liv Warren, one of The Skilled, she can track anyone down by the scent of their blood. Determined to not be bound to anyone, Liv tries to make it on her own in a dangerous world, but soon finds herself being drawn into a world and a life she despises.
The deeper you get into the story, the more you see how the puzzle pieces fit together and begin to fall into place and you find that you can’t put it down – I certainly couldn’t!!! One of my favorite lines was from page 171: “When I looked down, I was surprised to see blood staining my shirt and welling through a hole in the material. ‘You’ve been shot, Liv.’ Oh. How the hell had I missed that?” This is an example of Liv, the way she thinks and talks – and I loved every moment of it.
The only part that was a little disconcerting in the beginning had nothing to do with the story itself or the development of the characters. It was how the perspectives would quickly change between Liv and Cam, sometimes without me even realizing whose perspective I was reading from. Although I did get used to it quickly, it still threw me a little in the beginning.
Have read Rachel Vincent’s Shifters series and now reading her young adult Soul Screamers series, Rachel Vincent is definitely an author to keep an eye on!!! Blood Bound had me turning pages (or at least clicking through them on my Kindle) at lightning speed and I cannot wait for the next installment in this series – which is sure to be as much of a hit as the Shifters series was.
Paranormal Romance writer Rachel Vincent has done it again! She has created a dark, dangerous, gritty world in which knowing someone’s full, true name is power and where paranormal abilities are exploited for the advancement and power of the syndicate – run on the opposite sides of the town by Jake Towers and Ruben Cavazos – a bad guy you can’t help but end up liking . . . just a little bit.
In Blood Bound, the debut book in the new Unbound series, we meet Liv Warren, one of The Skilled, she can track anyone down by the scent of their blood. Determined to not be bound to anyone, Liv tries to make it on her own in a dangerous world, but soon finds herself being drawn into a world and a life she despises.
The deeper you get into the story, the more you see how the puzzle pieces fit together and begin to fall into place and you find that you can’t put it down – I certainly couldn’t!!! One of my favorite lines was from page 171: “When I looked down, I was surprised to see blood staining my shirt and welling through a hole in the material. ‘You’ve been shot, Liv.’ Oh. How the hell had I missed that?” This is an example of Liv, the way she thinks and talks – and I loved every moment of it.
The only part that was a little disconcerting in the beginning had nothing to do with the story itself or the development of the characters. It was how the perspectives would quickly change between Liv and Cam, sometimes without me even realizing whose perspective I was reading from. Although I did get used to it quickly, it still threw me a little in the beginning.
Have read Rachel Vincent’s Shifters series and now reading her young adult Soul Screamers series, Rachel Vincent is definitely an author to keep an eye on!!! Blood Bound had me turning pages (or at least clicking through them on my Kindle) at lightning speed and I cannot wait for the next installment in this series – which is sure to be as much of a hit as the Shifters series was.
Okay . . . I have a few issues with this one. Growing up I had read Sweet Valley Twins, Sweet Valley High, and Sweet Valley University. I grew up with Jessica and Elizabeth and literally devoured many of the books. I'm having trouble with this one. I'll come back when I'm done - hopefully the issues I am having with it won't become so overpowering that I have to put it down - and fully review it, issues and all.
There was a lot to be desired here. After all the issues between the twins for a good part of the book, having it all wrapped up in a nice, neat bow in perfect Sweet Valley, where everyone ultimately gets what they want/deserve is a little unrealistic. And if Jessica - a twenty-seven year old woman - said "like" one more time I was going to pull my hair out!! How can you want to mature a character then still have her talk like she's an air-headed teenager? It just didn't work for me. And I should have cared that a beloved character - Winston Egbert - had died. But I didn't. I really didn't feel much for the characters I grew up with. Disappointing.
There was a lot to be desired here. After all the issues between the twins for a good part of the book, having it all wrapped up in a nice, neat bow in perfect Sweet Valley, where everyone ultimately gets what they want/deserve is a little unrealistic. And if Jessica - a twenty-seven year old woman - said "like" one more time I was going to pull my hair out!! How can you want to mature a character then still have her talk like she's an air-headed teenager? It just didn't work for me. And I should have cared that a beloved character - Winston Egbert - had died. But I didn't. I really didn't feel much for the characters I grew up with. Disappointing.
All done!!! Will be back with a full review after I finish processing and write it LOL! I'm liking it so far!!! An interesting read. Will come back with a more in depth review once I am done!
