A review by bookmarkedbywolf
Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff

5.0

 Finally a proper vampire fantasy book, not romantasy but high fantasy. It's vampires in a dark, paranormal, some might say grim with a hint of horror type of a story. Jay Kristoff doesn't hold back, if you were not sure if his books are YA or NA this is different, this is matured adult stuff, the language that Gabriel (morally grey, half vampire worn to protect humanity from the vampires, tells his tale from the cell of the same vampires he vowed to destroy) uses and some battle scenes are explicitly written.

I loved everything about this book, the prose of jumping between the timeline, the twists and the reveals, the humour and the cursing, the art illustrations.

I'm ready for Empire of the Damned.