(I received a free copy of this book in exchange for a review).
(This review may contain spoilers).
I think I’d give this book 4.5 stars ideally, but since I can’t give half stars, I’ll again leave this at 4.
Although this book sounded quite intriguing, when I received it, I was kind of expecting a love at first sight, eye-rolling insta!romance thing. I was actually pleasantly surprised, though. The reason behind Porter and Sarah travelling together actually makes sense and I really like how their relationship progresses over the course of the book.
There’s a lot of contrast, which I’m not going to go into detail here about, but which makes a lot of sense. I feel that the strongest part of this book is the relationship between Porter and Sarah.
The idea about the Mythics is a pretty good one and I really like how Sarah was a Sphinx, rather than a more common mythical animal. There were some really minor things that I felt revealed her true nature – such as her curling up and walking on all fours. The details are always important, after all.
I liked the use of the different races in the book, too. I think I would like to see more of the others in the later books.
It was also interesting to find out the history of the Slayers. Everything has to start somewhere, but I was a bit surprised to see how much the organisation had changed from its original purpose.
I did like some of the other characters in the book as well, especially Tick. I also really liked how he and Porter became almost like brothers.
There were some errors in the book, but they didn’t detract from how much I enjoyed it. I will definitely read the next book in the series at some point and I imagine I would enjoy reading this book again. This has engaging characters and a good, intriguing storyline. I definitely recommend it.
Ink of Blood 