Black-Bloods and Vampire Keepers by Amy DeMeritt is an urban fantasy, erotic romance about vampire life, accepting who you are, and finding love where you’d least expect it.
Two hundred years ago Sabine had a happy life until one day it was all ripped away from her and she was turned into a bloodthirsty assassin.
For most of her immortal life, Sabine has been in vampire covens. Life in a coven is designed to shed you of your humanity, rip away your morals, and turn you into the ultimate killing machine. But gaining these skills is what helps her escape a life she despises, and she has been on the run for fifty years. She exists in the shadows trying to help rid the world of monsters who want to harm and destroy innocent people, even though some of those monsters are her own kin.
After killing two vampires to save a human, she has to outrun one of the most powerful covens in the city, she’s alone and trusts no one until she meets Elena. Elena is a rare creature that Sabine didn’t know existed, but something draws Sabine to her a force she can’t understand.
Sabine and Elena decide to trust each other and together flee the city. But with danger at every turn and talks of a war between vampires and werewolves, they’ll have to fight to the death to remain free. Bloody battles and similar harrowing pasts will bring these creatures closer and form a bond between them that neither has ever experienced.
This bond will be crucial to their survival and when they are taken into the most powerful vampire organisation in the world, they will need each other and this special bond to survive.
Writing
This book is written in the first-person point of view and you get both main character’s accounts throughout the book. This made the fight scenes very intense, and I found myself holding my breath. I don’t want to spoil anything but experiencing Sabine and Elena’s bond firsthand was breathtaking. This Author leaves nothing out and I enjoyed being inside these characters’ heads. Sometimes you get a long period in just one character’s head, and I loved being shown what they were experiencing and how the precarious situations they found themselves in affected them.
The world DeMeritt has created is utterly brilliant and fascinating, there is a lot going on, but this author allows the reader to soak it all up. I was never lost or left wondering, the attention to detail is phenomenal.
Pros And My Favourite Parts
I don’t want to spoil anything so I’m not going to write too much in this part but just know that I loved so many things about this book. It has a wonderful world that is built and structured perfectly. There are a lot of side characters that are introduced, but no information overload. I couldn’t put it down and loved every minute of it.
The journey that both Sabine and Elena go on both physically and mentally is awe-inspiring. This book is thrilling and has so much action in it, I was on the edge of my seat.
Sabine is so sad and lost at the beginning of this book, her story is harrowing, and my heart ached for her. Watching her come to terms with what she now is and learning that just because she didn’t choose this life doesn’t mean she can’t do something great with it and be happy, was an emotional rollercoaster that I was happy to be on. She has a rough time but the connection and bond she shares with Elena is strong and beautiful, this helps her see herself through another’s eyes, and it’s essential to her acceptance and survival.
Elena is a rare creature who is desired, used, and abused. She has deep routed emotional hurt and never thought she would ever like a vampire, never mind fall in love and willingly bond with one. Yet from the minute Sabine is on her radar, Elena knows there’s something different about her, there is a pull that she has never experienced.
This book is a thrilling action-adventure but it’s also a gorgeously written deep erotic romance that filled my heart and left me breathless.
Heads Up
The nature of how vampire hierarchy works in this book is unpleasant, there is talk of mental, physical, and sexual abuse but none of the descriptions are majorly in-depth, it’s more described in the abstract as memories but as a reader, you know what has happened and the affects it has had on the mc’s is apparent.
There is a lot of on-page violence due to the nature of how the vampire world the author has created works.
The Conclusion
If you like thrilling, action-packed adventures with fight scenes then this one is for you. It also has a deep erotic romance that held me captive. I couldn’t put this one down, the author had me craving to know what would happen next. The romance is gorgeous with a deep connection that grows between Sabine and Elena and left me feeling all warm and fuzzy as well as hot under the collar. It’s one of those books that has it all and I loved getting lost in both aspects of the story.
At times this book had me on the edge of my seat, its thrilling and fast-paced in the action, and then its slow and luxurious with the romance. The characters both have a great arc and I loved getting to know them and watching them change, grow and try to find a place in this crazy world. This is a series and although the action part of the book finishes on a cliffhanger the love and bond between Sabine and Elena is strong and left me satisfied that they are happy together but with a lot of danger in their future. I truly loved being enveloped in this world and I cannot wait for book two so I can continue this thrilling adventure.
This is a give-it-a-go from me, I wasn’t sure if I’d like it and ended up loving it! Buckle up and be prepared to be taken on an emotional, thrilling ride that you won’t forget or regret.
Excerpt from Black-Bloods and Vampire Keepers by Amy DeMeritt
Human parents have tried to instill a fear of the night in their children for thousands of years. For when night falls, hungry predators with better senses than their own begin their hunt. But in this modern world, most humans live in big cities or sprawling suburban developments with little threat of things like wolves, coyotes, Tasmanian devils, or leopards. The negligence and wicked impulses of their own kind are more dangerous to humans than anything else at night, even with immortal, bloodthirsty creatures like me walking around.
Their hearts are like little drums beating inside their fragile chests, pumping sweet blood through tender veins that are easier to drink from than a straw. The never-ending drone of the millions of hearts beating in Atlanta, Georgia plays right alongside the assaulting blare of car horns, the arresting sirens of emergency vehicles, people talking, laughing, and screaming, tires squealing, music playing, and countless other sounds. Most of those hearts belong to humans, a good percentage are cats, dogs, and rats, a couple hundred-thousand are werewolves, and at least just as many are my own kin – vampires.
When a vampire is thirsty, hearing every beating heart within a mile’s radius can become torture, at least, it is for me. Our instincts for survival muffle all other sounds, heightening the intensity of the beating hearts so we can track them and feed. When we’ve had our fill, the call of the blood becomes a white noise that just hums in the background.
But tonight, I’m not focusing on the beating hearts solely for my own survival. I’m listening for the telltale rapid beating of a person in trouble. And when you live in a big city, someone is always in trouble. Muggings, robberies, murders, rapes, kidnappings, physical assault – the city has it all in abundance.
In the two-hundred-plus years I have been alive, I have seen and experienced the horrors the greatest creatures of this planet are capable of. I am young for an immortal, but the longer I am able to remain independent and ally only with those I find worthy, the more I lean towards humans being the vilest creatures to walk this planet, even if I used to be one. Although, given my personal experiences, my kin aren’t far below the ranking in that assessment.
But when push comes to shove, I’ll generally side with a human over a vampire. Hell, I’ll even side with a werewolf over most vampires, even if they are supposed to be our natural enemies. It has been fifty years since I escaped my last coven and I’m still bitter towards my own kind because they’ve yet to prove they can be better than the monsters who changed and groomed me.
I didn’t choose my immortality; I had it brutally forced upon me. Aside from the fair few who know the truth, humans believe I’m just a fictional creature born from the dark side of human imagination. To most werewolves, I’m a blood rival. To my fellow vampires, I’m a deserter, an outcast, a potential threat, or an object to be desired for personal use and pleasure. In sum, I have no place in this world.
My humanity was stolen from me, and my kin makes it extremely difficult to remain independent, so I exist in the shadows, on the fringe of society, finding purpose in helping those who can’t help themselves.
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Series: Howthorn’s Revolution
Black-Bloods and Vampire keepers
Bits and Bobs
ISBN number: 979-8358981072
Publisher: Indie Author
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