A review by proudtobeabookaholic
Blood & Magic Eternal by Jessaca Willis

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

18 year old Charlotte Thorne has survived the vampire's reign with the help of her crossbow and common sense. Yet, she falls in a trap set by the Vampire Prince Malachi, who's out gathering humans for the Hunt, the vampire's annual, barbaric enjoyment. After being captured and imprisoned they're eventually set free - only to be hunted by ferocious, hungry vampires. No human has ever survived the Hunt...

It's been 18 years since the events in the prequel, Hunger & Cursed Shadows, and Tor Devonshire is King of the vampires. Halira Devonshire's daughter Ursulette, who Tor stole from his sister when she was newly born, lives with him at the castle, but it's Prince Malachi who's the heir. Not that Malachi wants to take over as king after his father - he can't seem to do anything right, according to Tor.

The story unravels from Charlotte's and Malachi's POV's, so we get to see the world from both the human and the vampire side. I like that it's a dark, gothic world, where vampires reign by fear. They've been hunting humans to the brink of extinction, which tend to be a problem. Sometimes it gets quite violent and bloody, but since it's fiction I have no problem with that. 

Charlotte is kind of a loner. She sees her childhood friend Rowland once in a while, and he tries to persuade her to move to Valor's Rest, the hiding place for a group of people. Charlotte can come off as cold and insensitive when she prefers to be left alone, but it's actually the other way around. She's afraid to get too close to anyone and then have to see them die. 

The ending comes with a sort of twist, which undoubtedly makes me want to read the next installment at once!

* I received an ARC from the author and I'm giving my honest review. *
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