 | Title: Hidden by Blood
Available as a FREE download from Harlequin Sexual Content: A semi graphic sex scene Rating:
Good - A fun read with minor flaws. Maybe read an excerpt before buying. |
Description
Deep within the forests of the Pacific Northwest, two vampire coalitions battle for supremacy—Guardians who safeguard humanity and Darkbloods, rogues who will stop at nothing to satisfy their craving for the sweetest of human blood.
Now, former Army Ranger Finn McKentry finds himself imprisoned as a blood slave, forced to submit to an enemy more powerful than any he's encountered before. Only Brenna Stewart, the woman he'd loved and lost, can set him free—but the secret she harbors might lead them down the most dangerous path of all…
"Dark and sinfully sexy."
—New York Times bestselling author Cherry Adair on Bonded by Blood
Review
What’s better than a free read? A free read that happens to be part of a series I called ‘supernatural sex on a stick.’ For a limited time, courtesy of publisher Harlequin, that’s exactly what you get from Laurie London’s Sweetblood novella HIDDEN BY BLOOD.
The basic premise of this series is that a fraction of the population has an irresistibly addictive blood type that vampires crave. One such sweetblood, Finn is captured and then rescued by his ex Brenna. We learn about their whirlwind romance (he picked her up in the produce section of the supermarket) through occasional well timed flashbacks that quickly invest the reader in their romance. After only the first few pages, I was already rooting for them. While this is a totally standalone read, I enjoyed a couple of cameos from my favorite characters from the first book.
A couple things keep me from enjoying this start as much as the debut, BONDED BY BLOOD. Some of the writing feels a bit stilted as London is trying to cram enough information about her very appealing Sweetblood world into a 60+ page novella. Occasionally a character would state a piece of information that would never naturally come up in conversation solely for the benefit of the reader and it pulled me out of the story every time. Also, a number of details were simply too convenient, but I chalk that up more to length limitations than anything else.
Overall, I loved revisiting this world and the super hot romance that I’m beginning to expect from London. HIDDEN BY BLOOD has more than whetted my appetite for more Sweetblood books, fortunately I won’t have to wait long since the next book in the series, EMBRACED BY BLOOD, will be published on June 21, 2011.
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