Genre: Urban
Fantasy/Paranormal Romance
Description:
“Enter the Other World at your own risk…
What if you found out that you weren’t exactly…human?
Myah Sullivan is suddenly living that nightmare. There are Others in
the world, dangerous, supernatural creatures that make her mind spin and cause
her to question the reality she’s always known.
Oliver King is her savior, a vampire who tries to show her the way.
Through her journey she learns far more than she ever thought she would about
herself, and about the past. Soon, she discovers that there is so much more to
meeting Oliver than mere happenstance.
Can Myah accept her new reality, or will she retreat into that normal,
safe world she once thought was her own?”
Author:
Marie Lavender is a multi-award winning author who writes in several
genres. She lives in the Midwest with her family and three cats. She has been
writing for over twenty years.
For more, visit Ms. Lavender’s website.
Appraisal:
Blood
Instincts is set in the future world much like our own. Desiree, from book one,
Second Nature, experiences a
clairvoyant dream, which sets the tone of this story.
Myah Sullivan is twenty-five, and believes herself to be a strong
independent human woman. Despite being orphaned at age nine and raised by her
aunt and grandfather. She’s finished college and has an uneventful job as an
accountant. Myah is comfortable where she is at in her life. Until she meets
Oliver King, a vampire, who is an artist in the human world. He senses
something special about Myah, something “Other,” but can’t pinpoint what
exactly. He is smitten instantly, and decides to help her understand this new world
of “Others” that is opening up to her as her own powers awaken.
Oliver is a perfect teacher. He can sense what she’s feeling, and
knows what she needs before she does. He tries to stay in teacher mode,
however, he is finding it hard not to make the transition to lover before she
is ready. I suppose it is normal for Myah to be plagued with doubts about all
this newness to everything around her, but come on! Her doubts and vacillations
drove me to the edge of my tolerance. I feel like it slowed the plot down and
became too repetitious.
Blood
Instincts has an interesting storyline which is told through differing
viewpoints and several emotional twists. The plot dragged for me when it got
too wordy. Also, some of the plot twists presented as, “oh, by the way, this
happened earlier.” I found irksome.
The characters are well developed and I did feel invested in the
story. The bedroom scenes are graphic, well written, and consuming. The twist
at the end foreshadows the next book well, and it’s evident that Myah is a more
than she ever dreamed.
FYI:
Blood
Instincts is book 2 in Marie Lavender’s, Blood at First Sight Series. Following
book 1, Second Nature. If graphic
love scenes disturb you this book may not be for you.
Format/Typo
Issues:
No significant issues.
Rating:
*** Three Stars
Reviewed
by: ?wazithinkin
Approximate
word count: 110-115,000 words
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