 | Title: Embraced by Blood
 Sexual Content: A scene takes place in a sex club and various sex acts are references. A couple semi graphic sex scenes. Rating:
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Description
Is she a deadly temptation...or the one woman who can quench his eternal thirst?
Alfonso Serrano is a hunted man. For months he's managed to elude the Darkbloods, vengeful foes who won't rest until he's dead. But he still craves one dangerous temptation: Lily DeGraff, the sexy Guardian agent he'll risk anything to protect.
Lily is a wanted woman. Her talent for tracking Sweet—a rare blood type that's addictive to vampires—makes her a prime target for enemy capture. Her only hope is the stealthy vampire operative who stole into her bed…then left her in despair. Danger aside, Lily won't let Alfonso near her heart again—until an irresistible hunger threatens to draw them back together… and into an assassin's snare.
Review
Second chance at love stories are usually not my favorite type of romances, but Laurie London’s EMBRACED BY BLOOD, the second book in her increasingly seductive supernatural Sweetblood series, might just change my mind.
London does an excellent job of explaining the intricacies of her Sweetblood world in a way that unfolded naturally as part of the narrative and avoiding the dreaded info dump. There are good vampires (those who don’t kill humans) and bad vampires (aka Darkbloods who kill indiscriminately). Humans, for the most part, are blissfully unaware of the war being found over them. Sweetbloods, humans with a rare and addictive blood, are in particular danger.
Unlike in BONDED BY BLOOD, both the hero and heroine in EMBRACED BY BLOOD are vampires. Lily is the single mother who works tracking Darkbloods, and Alfonso is the former traitor who was tortured into joining the Darkbloods before faking his death to escape. Years ago they had a heated love affair that burned them both before it ended. Sparks fly when they are reunited, but Alfonso is still keeping secrets and Lily is still deeply hurt. I couldn’t get enough of the scenes where they let their guards down long enough for the heat between them to rekindle.
Overall, the Sweetblood series is seriously sexy, the characters flawed in all the right ways, the vampire mythology familiar and distinct at the same time. There are a few too good to be true revelations that the cynic in me wanted to scoff at, but the romantic in me thrilled at. It all adds up to me counting down the days until TEMPTED BY BLOOD, Jackson’s story, is released in February 2012.
| #1. Bonded by Blood –4/5 #1.5 Hidden by Blood (novella) – 3/5 |
Awesome review!
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