Blood Feud By: Alyxandra Harvey Book Review

The action and romance continue as the Drakes face a new vampire with a 200-year-old grudge. It’s been centuries since Isabeau St. Croix barely survived the French Revolution. Now she’s made her way back to the living and she must face the ultimate test by confronting the evil British lord who left her for dead the day she turned into a vampire. That’s if she can control her affection for Logan Drake, a vampire whose bite is as sweet as the revenge she seeks.

The clans are gathering for Helena’s royal coronation as the next vampire queen, and new alliances are beginning to form now that the old rifts of Lady Natasha’s reign have started to heal. But with a new common enemy, Leander Montmarte—a vicious leader who hopes to force Solange to marry him and usurp the power of the throne for himself—the clans must stand together to preserve the peace he threatens to destroy.

This second adventure in the Drake Chronicles—told from both Logan’s and Isabeau’s perspectives—has all the same butt-kicking action, heart-pounding romances and snarky humor that readers loved in Hearts at Stake, as well as exciting new revelations about the vampire dynasties to keep readers coming back for more.

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     Yet another exciting installment in the Drake Chronicles. Much to my dismay I was sad that in Blood Feud we would be reading Luke and Isabeau. Solange and her best friend Lucy were my favorites, I had grown so attached to their point of view (POV). That I wasn't excited to view things as Isabeau and Luke. I was excited for yet another view into the Drake world,  but again sad about Lucy and Solange. Let me just tell you when their were mentions of Nicholas and Lucy I did get excited!! SO lets get on to it. 

     Isabeau and Luke are here to stay both from different places and brought up differently. One royalty, and the other a hound. If you have read the first in the series then you realize a hound is low (vampire wise). They live in the caves and relate to dogs. When getting to know these characters we get three POV's two of one character and one of the other (those people being Isabeau, Logan). Isabeau getting two POV's (sounds confusing but let me explain). Isabeau; we get to see past and present and see how she became! Unlike Luke and the Drakes, Isabeau was made, and not pleasantly might I add. Life seems Handy Dandy. Don't be fooled. If the Drakes are back then Solange's world renown "Stalker" comes too. As always Mortimer has a plan to court Solange and take the thrown. To do that Mortimer must face some hurtles. Mortimer is evil but don't be fooled much more evil is coming to the Drakes even the Hounds are faced withe the evil that is lurking through the night. Doesn't that tweak you fancy. The story begin with Isabeau and her past.

     Alyxandra Harvey did a spectacular job at delivering yet another beautifully written installments in the Drake Chronicles. As always the characters were well thought out well deliver with great imagination behind them. The character were believable and as I stated in my review of Hearts at Stake there were times where I was feeling what they were suppose to be feeling (sounds confusing but I hope you understand). Let me tell you as the book progressed I found myself thinking I knew what the ending was going to be like, I thought I knew who was behind all the mayhem. As I said don't be fooled and as always when dealing with vampires keep your eyes open. I adore this cover might be my favorite of all even after seeing the new cover for the third installment Out for Blood. Mrs. Harvey had great transition in between her characters POV's. I really like the extra point of view Isabeau had, and seeing how difficult her life was before and realizing who she is because of her past.

Be sure to pick up Hearts at Stake the first in the series I promise you will not regret it and once done that one then Blood Feud is a great follow up.

My Blurb for this Novel:  "The best seconds I have had in a while. Beautifully written, sarcastic, and funny Romeo and Juliet vampire love story. I adore from the first page til the last." 

Series Order:

1. Hearts at Stake (Review Here)

2. Blood Feud (Review, your reading it)

3. Out for Blood (Book Release: Nov 2010)

I Would Personally Rate this Book:

 

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Teaser Tuesdays (18) Blood Feud Alyxandra Harvey

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

·          Grab your current read

·         Open to a random page

·         Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page

·         BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)

Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they  like your teaser.

My Teasers:

"She shook her head. I reached out and traced a fingertip over a half-moon scar above her elbow. I half expected her to break my hand, or at least jerk away. She just went still "

 ~ Pg. 148, "Blood Feud" By: Alyxandra Harvey

I adore the first in the series Hearts at Stake, it was totally a must read. This one is a bit different but I'm totally addicted. Check this series out especially if you like Vamps and Romance.

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Hearts at Stake By: Alyxandra Harvey

On Solange’s sixteenth birthday, she is going to wake up dead. As if that’s not bad enough, she also has to outwit her seven overprotective older brothers, avoid the politics involved with being the only daughter born to an ancient vampire dynasty, and elude Kieran Black—agent of an anti-vampire league who is searching for his father’s killer and is intent on staking Solange and her entire family. 

Luckily she has her own secret weapon—her human best friend Lucy—who is willing to defend Solange’s right to a normal life, whether she’s being smothered by her well-intentioned brothers or abducted by a power-hungry queen. Two unlikely alliances are formed in a race to save Solange’s eternal life—Lucy and Solange’s brother Nicholas, and Solange and Kieran Black—in a dual romance that is guaranteed to jump start any romance-lover’s heart.

    I was speechless at the end of this book. Alyxandra Harvey writing surprised me, I did not expect much when I first picked up this book from the library, but I was so mistaken. This book had a great start and then it just kept getting better I even wished at the end that this book was longer. The main characters were well developed and well thought out, one thing I disliked it was minor but the villains if you could call them that could have been better developed or at least let us know more about there motives. I adore the basic storyline, it's unique not many books like it (only one I can think of similar but yet so different is Chronicles Vladimir Tod By: Heather Brewer). I love books that are detailed, I don't mean over the top where your begging to stop I would like to be able to picture surrounds, characters, and find realistic aspects in books that are fiction could be minor, but helps. I think this book had a lot of semi good descriptions, but I would like to see more surrounding descriptions to help us picture where a person is not only what they are doing.


    This book is told in 2 Point of Views (POV), first being the main character Solange, and second being Lucy, Solange's best friend and partner in crime. These characters are awesome and love them especially Nicholas (who kind of has a Dimitri vibe to him from Vampire Academy). I have a crush on Nicholas who couldn't!! Some description in the book of parts in between Lucy and Nicholas that even give me butterflies. So anyways enough of my novel crush. Back to POV, it could have been better don't get me wrong the transitions were great, I dunno about others who read this novel, but I rushed Solange's POV so I can get on to Lucy's because it was tempting and mysterious and it had the making of a main character not Solange. This is the only bone I had to pick with the book was the whole POV between Lucy and Solange other then that I think the book could have been close to perfect in my rating. Ok   I know I'm a sketcher always back and forth between trains of thought but I wanted to break down the characters just to show you how it add the the book. 
First off we have:


Lucy (My Personal Fave) words to describe her are: Feisty, a good friend, trouble maker, not good at taking orders and or Instruction (rule breaker).


Solange words to describe her are: Center of attention (something she dislikes), just wants to break free, you are either on her side or your not, stuck with 10 million brothers (who would go crazy, I only have one who is older then me and he kills me)


Nicholas words to describe him are: Tough exterior but soft spot in there somewhere (so I don't spoil the book to you guys who haven't read it, for those of you who have all I say is Picture frame on the Night stand)


Solanges Father: Peace maker, he's not a fighter unless pushed to that (last resort), likes to solve problems with his words, and keeps his temper in stick situations opposite to his wife.


Solanges Mother: Feisty one (you would even think that she was Lucy's mother), the warrior in the family, always up for a good fight, if playing good cop bad cop she would be Bad Cop.  


Tell me that hasn't spiked your interest!! It's tempting right? 


    This book was a quick read, and hold you til the end and if your in to Vampires, and YA and a Romeo and Juliet love story this is definitely a book for you, I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!! Now on to Blood Feud (Sequel) it come out in like 42 days its so far... 

I Would Personally Rate this book:  

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Kelly P