A Shade Of Vampire 2: A Shade Of Blood Author: Visit Amazon's Bella Forrest Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1484076249 | Format: EPUB
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I guess my life as a writer started when I was five; I'd sit under the kitchen table with my box of multi-colored wax crayons (I miss those) and create picture books.
Creative writing was always my favorite subject and I used any free time I had to sit down with a notepad. Not much has changed, except that now I have developed vampirish habits: my writing "day" typically starts at 1am.
I'm an avid reader, a big fan of cookie ice cream and I'm often travelling. When working I have to disconnect the internet for fear of being endlessly distracted by websites such as icanhas.cheezburger.com.
This is my website: bellaforrest.net
- Series: A Shade Of Vampire
- Paperback: 340 pages
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (April 8, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1484076249
- ISBN-13: 978-1484076248
- Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
I received this book from the author in exchange for an honest review.
A Shade of Blood by Bella Forrest takes place right after the events in A Shade of Vampire. We are immediately reintroduced to the main characters Sofia, Derek, the vampire she loves, and Ben, the best friend that has been tortured by other vampires. Derek has agreed to let them leave the Shade, but this leads to his own self destruction. Sofia and Ben are forever altered by their experiences, although Sofia still maintains an odd loyalty to Derek and the Shade, while Ben is unsurprisingly determined to bring the Shade down. What happens next will forever change all of their lives.
I had an extremely difficult time rating this book. In a lot of ways, the writing and plotting of this second installment is stronger than the first. Forrest is definitely getting more honed in her writing skills. The pacing is there and I read from cover to cover very quickly. It's a nicer length than the first book, and gives us a lot more back story on the history of Derek, the Shade, and its inhabitants. Not to mention, there are some really wonderful twists that I was not expecting, although, I have to admit, I don't really understand them. Perhaps the final installment will be more revealing.
Now we come to my dilemma. There will be some mild spoilers. While I really liked the characters in the first novel, I now have issues with all of them. Derek has become completely despicable -- can we really blame everything he's done on the fact that he's a vampire? And I can only explain Sofia's state as Stockholm's syndrome, where she has this bizarre loyalty to her kidnapper.
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