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3.98 AVERAGE
3.98 AVERAGE
One of the best fantasy romance books I've read in a while! A slow start but once I got into it, I was hooked. The world building is incredible. I'm continuing with the second book in the series soon. Highly recommend! And all free to read on Kindle Unlimited.
I received an ARC from the author. Just fyi.
The book starts with really great trigger warnings, pointing out the respective chapters and possibly difficult or triggering content. While I don't rely on these warnings, I do appreciate them a lot. I don't think I've ever seen an author actually point out the specific chapters before and I hope it becomes more common.
The story itself takes a while to pick up speed but this is due to the detailed world-building, which I thought was very well done. I enjoyed the characters and their development and the plot was intriguing and interesting enough to carry me through my impatience with the slow burn romance - a style I don't always enjoy - which was also well done.
It was a great read overall and I'm looking forward to the next part of the series.
The book starts with really great trigger warnings, pointing out the respective chapters and possibly difficult or triggering content. While I don't rely on these warnings, I do appreciate them a lot. I don't think I've ever seen an author actually point out the specific chapters before and I hope it becomes more common.
The story itself takes a while to pick up speed but this is due to the detailed world-building, which I thought was very well done. I enjoyed the characters and their development and the plot was intriguing and interesting enough to carry me through my impatience with the slow burn romance - a style I don't always enjoy - which was also well done.
It was a great read overall and I'm looking forward to the next part of the series.
so pleasantly surprised by this!
I've read my fair share of fantasy romances, and I'm so used to the hyper sexual and all powerful asshole falling for the plain not like other girls but turns into a huge mary sue fmc that anything other than that alone is honestly so refreshing. but blood mercy actually had a plot and fully fleshed out characters who make realistic and altruistic decisions, and that blew me away (yes, the bar for this sub-genre is truly that low for me!)
the first half of this was pretty mid. I stuck around because while I was not feeling lio in a love interest way, it was, like I said, refreshing to have the magic vampire boy be a pure kind hearted person. lio and cassia did end up growing on me, but I'm just so unused to a gentle and sweet slow burn that I was pretty bored (I know this is a me problem but I come here solely for the angst and yearning)
the second I hit the half way mark with cassia's backstory though, I started to fall for this story. I got so invested and felt like I was about to cry almost every other chapter, which instantly puts whatever i'm reading up to four stars.
then, after the dance scene (iykyk), I became fully entrenched. that sold lio for me, and I fell for cassia when I was on the verge of proud tears watching her try to navigate friendships and become a kinder woman.
can't wait to see where this story goes !
I've read my fair share of fantasy romances, and I'm so used to the hyper sexual and all powerful asshole falling for the plain not like other girls but turns into a huge mary sue fmc that anything other than that alone is honestly so refreshing. but blood mercy actually had a plot and fully fleshed out characters who make realistic and altruistic decisions, and that blew me away (yes, the bar for this sub-genre is truly that low for me!)
the first half of this was pretty mid. I stuck around because while I was not feeling lio in a love interest way, it was, like I said, refreshing to have the magic vampire boy be a pure kind hearted person. lio and cassia did end up growing on me, but I'm just so unused to a gentle and sweet slow burn that I was pretty bored (I know this is a me problem but I come here solely for the angst and yearning)
the second I hit the half way mark with cassia's backstory though, I started to fall for this story. I got so invested and felt like I was about to cry almost every other chapter, which instantly puts whatever i'm reading up to four stars.
then, after the dance scene (iykyk), I became fully entrenched. that sold lio for me, and I fell for cassia when I was on the verge of proud tears watching her try to navigate friendships and become a kinder woman.
can't wait to see where this story goes !
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
emotional
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I couldn’t get into it. Too slow.
adventurous
dark
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This book should have been half as long. I kept reading hoping it would improve but it didn’t and by then I had spent too much time to just DNF it so I trudged through it. It would have been so much more enjoyable in a shorter form.
A plot point would be brought up in a conversation between characters and they would then go on for pages more talking about nothing when the discussion to carry the story along was already mentioned in the first page or two of their conversations.
I feel bad giving books a low score but I can’t justify giving it any higher.
A plot point would be brought up in a conversation between characters and they would then go on for pages more talking about nothing when the discussion to carry the story along was already mentioned in the first page or two of their conversations.
I feel bad giving books a low score but I can’t justify giving it any higher.
While the opening may have been a little slow, and yet somehow kind of confusing and refusing to hold your hand in the introduction of this world, oh boy was it all worth it. I'm obsessed. Lio and Cassia are both such great characters, and the political plots are top notch. Highly recommend.
There is something special when a big fantasy book slowly engulfs you. That is so intricate that you can picture yourself living in it.
Now imagine living a slow burn romance as intense as the mystery and the political intrigue.
Then add vampire blood drinking smut in it! That is Blood Mercy.
Let me be honest. I eat it up a "if you touch her you die" troupe any time.
But I'm a romance reader. What I want is a "without you I die" troupe, and that is what I got
Now imagine living a slow burn romance as intense as the mystery and the political intrigue.
Then add vampire blood drinking smut in it! That is Blood Mercy.
Let me be honest. I eat it up a "if you touch her you die" troupe any time.
But I'm a romance reader. What I want is a "without you I die" troupe, and that is what I got