~ BOOK REVIEW ~ Blood Promise (Blood #3) ~ by Danielle Rose
Title: BLOOD PROMISE
Genre: NA Urban
Fantasy
Publisher: OfTomes
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Cover Art by Gwenn Danae
Cover Text by Eight Little
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Blurb:
The Blood Books trilogy is Underworld meets The Craft that
fans of Harry Potter, The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, and Twilight will
enjoy! Readers are praising this "must read" trilogy as
"unputdownable" and "purely addicting."
Careful what you witch
for.
Avah Taylor never wanted to be a vampire, and now, her
immortal life is at stake. When tragedy strikes, Avah is cast out of her
vampire coven and embarks on a mission to expose the danger of the witchcraft
that took her mortal life from her. Her journey takes her around the world,
from Washington State to London to Russia, but Avah can't run from a past
deadly mistake that has come seeking revenge.
In this epic conclusion to the Blood Books trilogy, Avah's
questions will finally be answered, but only at a terrible
price.
My Review:
5 out of 5 Stars!
Just like the previous books in the series, this book certainly
did not disappoint, once again full of action and everything that could
possibly make your heart race from the very beginning. Just as Avah and her
family never get a moment to rest, the readers certainly don’t either!
This book did not have a slow start, which I absolutely
loved. Often, you will find in a trilogy
or series, that the beginning of the books (beyond the first book) get weighed
down with reminders of what happened in the previous books. This one certainly didn’t happen that
way. We picked up with the recovery of
the end of the last book, but with very little repeating of what had happened
to get us there – which was very nice.
And if there may have been a reminder needed of what happened in
previous books, it was very lightly sprinkled throughout the book as needed,
and barely noticeable.
Of course, for me, no reminders were needed, as I devoured all 3
of these books in a week. This was a
FANTASTIC series, and I know that I’m going to have a huge book hangover for
quite a while. I truly came to love each
and every one of these characters, even a few that I wasn’t fully sure I could
trust until this book. Ms. Rose has a
writing style that I love, because it constantly kept me guessing on multiple
levels – who could and couldn’t be trusted, what was going to happen next, and
even when they came up with a plan for a battle, we only knew ahead of time
that there was a plan – zero details. We only found out what the plan was as
the details unfolded.
One of the things that stood out the most, that was so beautiful
about all of these books, was the many different levels of love shown, and felt
as a reader. The love between Avah and
Jasik was powerful, beautiful, extremely hot, and the relationship everyone
hopes that they will find in their life (and in their case, especially if it’s
an eternity). However, the different
levels of love is this book go beyond the two of them. The family they create with the other hunters
is unique for each one of them.
Obviously, Jasik and Malik would be the strongest as they actually are
blood related brothers, but the rest of them have such a unique relationship
that makes them stronger than most blood related families. When Sebastian is added to the mix, it makes
those relationships all the more interesting – in a good way.
There
is a lot of shock that happens for the witches, the vampires, hunters, and
hybrids in this book, which finally makes everything each group has spent
thousands of years believing of each other finally come to a head, and be dealt
with once and for all – good or bad. I
was very happy with the outcome and how it came to be. Yet at the same time, with it ending the way
it did, it is going to be very hard for me to say goodbye to these characters
that have almost started to feel like my own family. I don’t know why I have never read any of
this author’s books before, but you can be sure I will be looking up every
single previous book written, and looking forward to every book that comes out
in the future. This was really
entertaining writing with a fresh look at the paranormal world, where nothing
is as black and white as it may seem.
Danielle Rose holds a Master
of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of Southern Maine.
Currently residing in the Midwest, where she spends her days dreaming of warmer
temperatures, when she’s not writing, she enjoys pretending she lives in
California, spending an embarrassing amount of time at Hobby Lobby, and
binge-watching Netflix. Visit Danielle on the Web: www.Danielle-Rose.com.
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