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A review by joolz_reads
Silver in the Blood by Jessica Day George
4.0
***4.5 Stars***
Ohhh my god where do I even start? First of all I absolutely love the concept of this book. Two cousins visit their family in Romania who serve the Draculas and discover a terrible family secret? And in the year of the publication of Bram Stoker's Dracula?? Yes please! Because of this, I had very high expectations for this book, that were mostly met.
Dacia and Lou are two pampered debutantes living in New York who are sent to visit their Florescu relatives in Romania, and little did they know their family hid a very dark secret: they are the Wing, the Claw, and the Smoke. In other words, some of them can transform into huge bats, others can transform into giant wolves, and few can transform into clouds of mist, but no Florescu has had that ability in decades. Dacia and Lou are sent to Romania to discover their abilities and serve the Dracula family, but the girls find themselves unwilling to do the latter, which their family has done for the last 400 years.
It was so refreshing to be reading a book in the third person point of view and feel like I was right alongside the characters. The writing was absolutely amazing and detailed, and I admit I did have to look up the meaning of a word or two. I loved the characters and how down-to-earth they were at times (for being a part of a family of a high status), and felt that I had an obligation to protect them, despite thinking at first that I would be annoyed by how spoiled and pampered they would be.
Alas, I did take off .5 of a star for a reason. To my disappointment, so many questions were left unanswered. I'm still sitting here trying to discover answers to these questions. I hope that Jessica Day George will write a sequel and be able to answer some of these questions, but for now I believe that this book is not part of a series. Another reason for taking away that .5 of a star was for a historical error on page 134. I only caught the error because of how much I know about Vlad Tepeș/Vlad the Impaler, being a Dracula fan myself. I'll see if you can catch it too. ;)
Overall, this was a great book, and I would recommend it to those who love anything to do with Dracula, Vlad the Impaler, family secrets, Eastern Europe in the late 1890s, and shapeshifters.
Ohhh my god where do I even start? First of all I absolutely love the concept of this book. Two cousins visit their family in Romania who serve the Draculas and discover a terrible family secret? And in the year of the publication of Bram Stoker's Dracula?? Yes please! Because of this, I had very high expectations for this book, that were mostly met.
Dacia and Lou are two pampered debutantes living in New York who are sent to visit their Florescu relatives in Romania, and little did they know their family hid a very dark secret: they are the Wing, the Claw, and the Smoke. In other words, some of them can transform into huge bats, others can transform into giant wolves, and few can transform into clouds of mist, but no Florescu has had that ability in decades. Dacia and Lou are sent to Romania to discover their abilities and serve the Dracula family, but the girls find themselves unwilling to do the latter, which their family has done for the last 400 years.
It was so refreshing to be reading a book in the third person point of view and feel like I was right alongside the characters. The writing was absolutely amazing and detailed, and I admit I did have to look up the meaning of a word or two. I loved the characters and how down-to-earth they were at times (for being a part of a family of a high status), and felt that I had an obligation to protect them, despite thinking at first that I would be annoyed by how spoiled and pampered they would be.
Alas, I did take off .5 of a star for a reason. To my disappointment, so many questions were left unanswered. I'm still sitting here trying to discover answers to these questions. I hope that Jessica Day George will write a sequel and be able to answer some of these questions, but for now I believe that this book is not part of a series. Another reason for taking away that .5 of a star was for a historical error on page 134. I only caught the error because of how much I know about Vlad Tepeș/Vlad the Impaler, being a Dracula fan myself. I'll see if you can catch it too. ;)
Overall, this was a great book, and I would recommend it to those who love anything to do with Dracula, Vlad the Impaler, family secrets, Eastern Europe in the late 1890s, and shapeshifters.