(I received a free copy of this book in exchange for a review).
(This review may contain spoilers).
I’ll be honest here. If I’d realised this was a vampire romance, I probably wouldn’t have read it. I’ve come across some vampire romances that were written well… but I’m afraid this wasn’t one of them.
I was really intrigued by the blurb of this book. When I read that, I really did want to read the book. And, also, the first chapter really grabbed my attention and made me want to read more, despite the vampire romance angle. Unfortunately, when the POV switched over to Anna, I couldn’t bring myself to empathise with her. The main difficulty may have been the constant switching of first-person POVs. I kept getting dizzy and wasn’t able to ‘settle’ in one character’s head before being pulled into the next one’s.
I did like some of the secondary characters, which made me waver in adding an extra star. Unfortunately, the interesting relationship between Victor and Kayden was overshadowed by Kayden falling in love with Anna.
I couldn’t really see any of the characters as ‘good guys’, except maybe Meg and Simon. Victor’s responsibility for what happened to Simon really destroyed any hope of me liking him as a character, to be honest. Shade was an interesting character, but I didn’t like the strong hints of him also developing an obsession with Anna.
There were a lot of errors in this book, which also made it difficult to read. With a proofreader and sticking to one POV (two from first person is pushing it), I think this book could have been more readable, but I would have liked to see more depth to the characters. I also had no idea of where or when this book was set.
Ink of Blood 