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3.39 AVERAGE
3.39 AVERAGE
2.5
A very interesting twist on vampires mixed with dystopia. BUT, I had a hard time with the characters. They didn’t do anything for me.
A very interesting twist on vampires mixed with dystopia. BUT, I had a hard time with the characters. They didn’t do anything for me.
My Rating : 3🌟
Well.. I thought this would be a standalone, but I was wrong! This Definitely had the tension and the chemistry at times, but I don't find the allure. Maybe if I read the next books, I might, but I don't think I want to continue the book 🤔🤔
Well.. I thought this would be a standalone, but I was wrong! This Definitely had the tension and the chemistry at times, but I don't find the allure. Maybe if I read the next books, I might, but I don't think I want to continue the book 🤔🤔
dark
fast-paced
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Content Warnings
Moderate: Slavery, Blood
Minor: Sexual content
Blood Type by K. A Linde is the first book in the Blood Type series. I thought it was a great start to the series and I am looking forward to delve further into the world the author created. I found the author’s perspective of the vampire world unique and addictive.
In this world vampires rule and are affluent while humans live in constant state of poverty and fighting hard to survive. Corruption was rampant among the vampire hierarchy and they rule the human population with a heavy hand.
The story introduced Reyna Carpenter one of the many humans struggling to make ends meet. She dreams of going to college but does not have the means to do so. Unable to get a job, she depends on her brothers to support her. Her brothers are struggling as well and so she felt she had no choice but to sign to work for Visage to become a blood escort. Being a blood escort meant temporary placement with a vampire who will feed on her whenever he desired. However, on entering the program she was selected for a special project where she would be permanently paired with a vampire. She would be paired with the powerful and enigmatic Beckham Anderson.
Reyna found herself in a situation, which she did not understand and so she had a lot of questions. However, there were times I wished she would exercise wisdom and hold her tongue. I found her actions somewhat annoying and I lauded Beckham for his patience. Despite this I admired her strength and caring attitude.
There was more to Beckham than meets the eye. His character was shrouded in secrecy. I admired his self-control, which came under threat when Reyna entered his life. Figuring out his agenda proved a challenge, however as the story progressed his motives were revealed.
There was a lot happening in the story to keep me on my toes. There were quite a few twists, some of which I saw coming and some that bowled me over.
The romance between Beckham and Reyna took a while to build up. There was a lot of push and pull that I began wondering if they would get together.
This installment left me with several unanswered questions, which will more than likely be addressed in the sequels.
Conclusion/Recommendation
I enjoyed this installment and I am looking forward to picking up the next book. I would definitely recommend this to fans of paranormal romance.
Narration
Caitlin Elizabeth did an okay job with the narration. It was my first time listening to her. The voices were not distinguishable, except for the character with the French accent. I found her voice to be pleasant, which made it easy to listen to the book.
In this world vampires rule and are affluent while humans live in constant state of poverty and fighting hard to survive. Corruption was rampant among the vampire hierarchy and they rule the human population with a heavy hand.
The story introduced Reyna Carpenter one of the many humans struggling to make ends meet. She dreams of going to college but does not have the means to do so. Unable to get a job, she depends on her brothers to support her. Her brothers are struggling as well and so she felt she had no choice but to sign to work for Visage to become a blood escort. Being a blood escort meant temporary placement with a vampire who will feed on her whenever he desired. However, on entering the program she was selected for a special project where she would be permanently paired with a vampire. She would be paired with the powerful and enigmatic Beckham Anderson.
Reyna found herself in a situation, which she did not understand and so she had a lot of questions. However, there were times I wished she would exercise wisdom and hold her tongue. I found her actions somewhat annoying and I lauded Beckham for his patience. Despite this I admired her strength and caring attitude.
There was more to Beckham than meets the eye. His character was shrouded in secrecy. I admired his self-control, which came under threat when Reyna entered his life. Figuring out his agenda proved a challenge, however as the story progressed his motives were revealed.
There was a lot happening in the story to keep me on my toes. There were quite a few twists, some of which I saw coming and some that bowled me over.
The romance between Beckham and Reyna took a while to build up. There was a lot of push and pull that I began wondering if they would get together.
This installment left me with several unanswered questions, which will more than likely be addressed in the sequels.
Conclusion/Recommendation
I enjoyed this installment and I am looking forward to picking up the next book. I would definitely recommend this to fans of paranormal romance.
Narration
Caitlin Elizabeth did an okay job with the narration. It was my first time listening to her. The voices were not distinguishable, except for the character with the French accent. I found her voice to be pleasant, which made it easy to listen to the book.
This heroine is TSTL! How is she getting to no to get him back, after what she said & did! But I will read the next book & see how she will redeem herself.
Book source ~ NetGalley
Reyna Carpenter finished school, but she can’t find a job. In this world ruled by vampires, her only asset is her blood. So, to ease the burden of her brothers who work long hours in a factory earning little money to support the three of them, she goes to Visage to sign up for the body employment services. In other words, food for vampires. Her brothers would throw a fit if they knew so she didn’t say anything to them. But when she’s there, she discovers she’s eligible for a new program, one where she doesn’t feed a vampire for a month then get time off before rotating to another vampire. This new program is being tested with the wealthy vampires first and she would live indefinitely with her Sponsor. Or until such time as she wanted out of the program or her Sponsor terminates the contract. It pays more, a lot more, so Reyna signs up. Her Sponsor is a top executive at Visage, Beckham Anderson. Beckham is powerful, rich and handsome, but he’s abrupt and acts like he doesn’t even want Reyna in his apartment. That’s when things get even weirder.
This is a fascinating if totally bleak world and it would have been a great story if Reyna and Beckham could have been written better. I really can’t stand Reyna. What a twat. And Beckham is a class A asshole. Sure, there’s some juicy stuff revealed later, but for the most part this story just lacks all around. The bad guys are the best part and I found the blood type thing incredibly interesting. However, it’s mostly blah and meh and, frankly, at times, pretty fucking dumb. I’ll take a pass on the rest of the series.
Reyna Carpenter finished school, but she can’t find a job. In this world ruled by vampires, her only asset is her blood. So, to ease the burden of her brothers who work long hours in a factory earning little money to support the three of them, she goes to Visage to sign up for the body employment services. In other words, food for vampires. Her brothers would throw a fit if they knew so she didn’t say anything to them. But when she’s there, she discovers she’s eligible for a new program, one where she doesn’t feed a vampire for a month then get time off before rotating to another vampire. This new program is being tested with the wealthy vampires first and she would live indefinitely with her Sponsor. Or until such time as she wanted out of the program or her Sponsor terminates the contract. It pays more, a lot more, so Reyna signs up. Her Sponsor is a top executive at Visage, Beckham Anderson. Beckham is powerful, rich and handsome, but he’s abrupt and acts like he doesn’t even want Reyna in his apartment. That’s when things get even weirder.
This is a fascinating if totally bleak world and it would have been a great story if Reyna and Beckham could have been written better. I really can’t stand Reyna. What a twat. And Beckham is a class A asshole. Sure, there’s some juicy stuff revealed later, but for the most part this story just lacks all around. The bad guys are the best part and I found the blood type thing incredibly interesting. However, it’s mostly blah and meh and, frankly, at times, pretty fucking dumb. I’ll take a pass on the rest of the series.
It's currently 3:47am and I just finished reading this book, I just couldn't put it down. It is so addictive
Anyways it about this girl who lives in this world where vampires wear suits and walk in the light and there is this company who employs people to basically be feeding bags for the vampires.
This is where she meets Becks who is one of the top vampires in the hierarchy and is also the vice president of the company.
Becks isn't what she expects and slowly things begin to get steamy between the two of them (and I mean really steamy!!!!)
The ending kinda have me by the balls and I cant wait to read the next book!!!
I did have a bit of an issue with the world and the characters, so of the characters are so inconsequential that I begin to wonder what the point of them is.
Anyways I just loved it so much
Anyways it about this girl who lives in this world where vampires wear suits and walk in the light and there is this company who employs people to basically be feeding bags for the vampires.
This is where she meets Becks who is one of the top vampires in the hierarchy and is also the vice president of the company.
Becks isn't what she expects and slowly things begin to get steamy between the two of them (and I mean really steamy!!!!)
The ending kinda have me by the balls and I cant wait to read the next book!!!
I did have a bit of an issue with the world and the characters, so of the characters are so inconsequential that I begin to wonder what the point of them is.
Anyways I just loved it so much
The idea behind this book I liked. Vampires are known and they have a corporation to provide them with blood and compensation to the humans in an economy that is in the toilet. The execution of the plot wasn't as great. I didn't like the characters; Reyna let Beckham treat her like shit and still kept going back to him. Beckham was a dick and didn't really make an effort to know Reyna. With MCs I didn't like, it was hard to care about what happened. I saw the ending coming and don't have a desire to read the next book.
I didn’t like Blood Type. I knew from the cover it probably wasn’t going to be my kind of book but I powered through the bland characters, non-existent worldbuilding, and dull writing and all I have to say is: That wasn’t for me.
Blood Type follows Reyna, a down-and-out girl in her early twenties in desperate need of a job. Out of desperation, she becomes a Blood Escort meaning she gets paid to be the loving blood bag to a vampire. She’s assigned to the brooding and mysterious Beckham and from there romance ensues.
My first problem with this book was how flat Reyna was as a character. She was dragged along by the narrative and barely ever made any decisions for herself. Even her only hobby in this book photography wasn’t anything she chose for herself Beckham, our love interest gives her a camera halfway through the book to distract her. She’s boring and does little to carry the story.
Speaking of Beckham I didn’t like him very much either. He felt like a cardboard cut out of a person rather than a fully realized person. He was dark and brooding with no depth to his character. He was consistently rude to Reyna for no reason. And I have no clue why he has any romantic interest in Reyna at all. Beckham had no motivations throughout the novel and Linde’s third act plot twist only made his character more confusing.
The romantic conflict of this book while kind of ridiculous is the only thing I found myself genuinely enjoying from time to time. The tension between Reyna and Beckham is about his general standoffish Ness and refusal to drink Reyna’s blood despite this being her only job description. I found Reyna’s anxieties about Beckham not drinking her blood a bit nonsensical because no poor person in desperate need of money would ever complain about getting paid thousand to do nothing. However, what Linde does really well is the building of sexual tension between Reyna and Beckham. The best scenes in the book were the (almost) sex scenes.
A major frustration I had with this book was Linde’s consistent use of sexual assault and the threat of rape to build cheap tension. This happening even once would have been too much but the ceaseless use of this as a plot device was gross and gratuitous. I got the impression that Linde was doing this to make Beckham look comparatively good. It gives off a “He may be a pushy asshole but at least he’s not raping her, am I right?
Blood Type follows Reyna, a down-and-out girl in her early twenties in desperate need of a job. Out of desperation, she becomes a Blood Escort meaning she gets paid to be the loving blood bag to a vampire. She’s assigned to the brooding and mysterious Beckham and from there romance ensues.
My first problem with this book was how flat Reyna was as a character. She was dragged along by the narrative and barely ever made any decisions for herself. Even her only hobby in this book photography wasn’t anything she chose for herself Beckham, our love interest gives her a camera halfway through the book to distract her. She’s boring and does little to carry the story.
Speaking of Beckham I didn’t like him very much either. He felt like a cardboard cut out of a person rather than a fully realized person. He was dark and brooding with no depth to his character. He was consistently rude to Reyna for no reason. And I have no clue why he has any romantic interest in Reyna at all. Beckham had no motivations throughout the novel and Linde’s third act plot twist only made his character more confusing.
The romantic conflict of this book while kind of ridiculous is the only thing I found myself genuinely enjoying from time to time. The tension between Reyna and Beckham is about his general standoffish Ness and refusal to drink Reyna’s blood despite this being her only job description. I found Reyna’s anxieties about Beckham not drinking her blood a bit nonsensical because no poor person in desperate need of money would ever complain about getting paid thousand to do nothing. However, what Linde does really well is the building of sexual tension between Reyna and Beckham. The best scenes in the book were the (almost) sex scenes.
A major frustration I had with this book was Linde’s consistent use of sexual assault and the threat of rape to build cheap tension. This happening even once would have been too much but the ceaseless use of this as a plot device was gross and gratuitous. I got the impression that Linde was doing this to make Beckham look comparatively good. It gives off a “He may be a pushy asshole but at least he’s not raping her, am I right?
When I saw that this book was up for review on NetGalley, I almost passed it by. But something about the blurb caught my attention and made me look twice. I thought it was going to be your typical Twilight knockoff. Not only am I glad that I requested (and got) the book, I am glad that my assumption was so wrong. This book is nothing like the Twilight knockoff. NOTHING like it. So don’t expect a book like that. Expect something that is much darker and grittier. These vampires don’t glitter.
Blood Type takes place in a post-apocalyptic world. Vampires came out to the humans years before, sending the world into a tailspin. After the dust settled, the vampires had taken over the world. People were left fighting for food, shelter, and jobs. Reyna grew up during that time and is struggling to survive in the new world the vampires created. Her way out is to become a blood escort. Someone who lets the vampires feed off of her in exchange for money. But, she gets chosen to test out a new role. A role as a live-in escort. Her sponsor is the VP of the escort company, Beckham Anderson. As heat and lust sparks between Beckham and Reyna, she can’t feel that there is something off. Something that she doesn’t know about. Something that could make or break her world if she finds out.
Like I mentioned above, this book was gritty. It was not written to make you think that vampires where nice people who happened to want to drink your blood. Nope, these vampires were evil. Even if they had good intentions, like Beckham. I loved it!!! It was a refreshing read and different from other vampire books. I was not bored reading it.
I felt bad for Reyna. She tried everything in her power to get out of where she was staying. The escort service was her last resort. She didn’t want to be known as a blood whore. She was ashamed of it. I did get a laugh out of her wardrobe and her reaction to it. What was running through my head was Julia Roberts wardrobe before Richard Greer picked her up in Pretty Woman. Except Reyna had the opposite reaction.
I couldn’t get a feel on Beckham until almost the end of the book. Normally, that bothers me but in this case, it only added to how much I like the book. He is a vampire. I shouldn’t be able to read him like a book. I should have to work, like Reyna did, to see what he was like underneath. It wasn’t until the bombing that I even began to understand him. I loved it!!!
The sexual tension in Blood Type was through the roof. Reyna and Beckham do not actually have sex until towards the end of the book. I thought that the author did a great job keeping the sexual tension up until then. When they finally had sex, it was explosive. I swear my Kindle’s screen fogged up a few times.
The end of the book was insane. Not going to get into it, but I was not expecting what happened. There is a cliffhanger. I don’t like cliffhangers but this one made me eager to read book 2.
What I liked about Blood Type:
A) Vampires were what I thought they should be. Not glittery freaks.
B) Reyna and Beckham’s sexual tension
C) The plotline
What I dislike about Blood Type:
A) Reyna being forced into being a blood escort
B) The other live in blood escorts. They annoyed me
C) The judgey peeps that Reyna met
I would give Blood Type a rating of Adult. There is explicit sex, explicit violence, and language. This is a book that no one under the age of 21 should be reading.
I wouldn’t give this book any trigger warnings.
I would recommend Blood Type to family and friends. I would give a warning about the sex, violence, and language. This is a book that I would reread. This is also a series that I am going to enjoy reading.
I would like to thank NetGalley, Random House Publishing Group and Loveswept for allowing me to read and review Blood Type.
All opinions stated in this review of Blood Type are mine.
**I chose to leave this review after reading an advance reader copy**
Blood Type takes place in a post-apocalyptic world. Vampires came out to the humans years before, sending the world into a tailspin. After the dust settled, the vampires had taken over the world. People were left fighting for food, shelter, and jobs. Reyna grew up during that time and is struggling to survive in the new world the vampires created. Her way out is to become a blood escort. Someone who lets the vampires feed off of her in exchange for money. But, she gets chosen to test out a new role. A role as a live-in escort. Her sponsor is the VP of the escort company, Beckham Anderson. As heat and lust sparks between Beckham and Reyna, she can’t feel that there is something off. Something that she doesn’t know about. Something that could make or break her world if she finds out.
Like I mentioned above, this book was gritty. It was not written to make you think that vampires where nice people who happened to want to drink your blood. Nope, these vampires were evil. Even if they had good intentions, like Beckham. I loved it!!! It was a refreshing read and different from other vampire books. I was not bored reading it.
I felt bad for Reyna. She tried everything in her power to get out of where she was staying. The escort service was her last resort. She didn’t want to be known as a blood whore. She was ashamed of it. I did get a laugh out of her wardrobe and her reaction to it. What was running through my head was Julia Roberts wardrobe before Richard Greer picked her up in Pretty Woman. Except Reyna had the opposite reaction.
I couldn’t get a feel on Beckham until almost the end of the book. Normally, that bothers me but in this case, it only added to how much I like the book. He is a vampire. I shouldn’t be able to read him like a book. I should have to work, like Reyna did, to see what he was like underneath. It wasn’t until the bombing that I even began to understand him. I loved it!!!
The sexual tension in Blood Type was through the roof. Reyna and Beckham do not actually have sex until towards the end of the book. I thought that the author did a great job keeping the sexual tension up until then. When they finally had sex, it was explosive. I swear my Kindle’s screen fogged up a few times.
The end of the book was insane. Not going to get into it, but I was not expecting what happened. There is a cliffhanger. I don’t like cliffhangers but this one made me eager to read book 2.
What I liked about Blood Type:
A) Vampires were what I thought they should be. Not glittery freaks.
B) Reyna and Beckham’s sexual tension
C) The plotline
What I dislike about Blood Type:
A) Reyna being forced into being a blood escort
B) The other live in blood escorts. They annoyed me
C) The judgey peeps that Reyna met
I would give Blood Type a rating of Adult. There is explicit sex, explicit violence, and language. This is a book that no one under the age of 21 should be reading.
I wouldn’t give this book any trigger warnings.
I would recommend Blood Type to family and friends. I would give a warning about the sex, violence, and language. This is a book that I would reread. This is also a series that I am going to enjoy reading.
I would like to thank NetGalley, Random House Publishing Group and Loveswept for allowing me to read and review Blood Type.
All opinions stated in this review of Blood Type are mine.
**I chose to leave this review after reading an advance reader copy**