dei2dei 's review for:

Blood of the Earth by Faith Hunter
4.0

Taking an independent stand, the conflicts of family ties versus religious obligation and - at the core - what really drives a character, the emotional struggles and needs to understand and find a way to compromise, play heavily in the first book in a new series (though if you've been following Hunter's Jane Yellowrock series, the protagonist is not unknown). There's the vampire/were-creature/PsyLED plot, but I think more compelling than that is Nell's internal struggle to understand who she is, what she is, and how she can be who she is (and feels she must be), and still keep her family - part of a religious cult/spin-off church - in her life.