Title: The Breaking of Bonds
Series: Bad Blood, Book Two
Author: Alina Popescu
Genre: paranormal, supernatural, paranormal romance, vampire
Length: Novel
Synopsis
A human sacrifice throws vampires of two worlds, trueborn and baseborn, into an escalating conflict. One side pushes for revenge, the other for freedom. The trueborns stubbornly hunt for Anthony and Louis, pushed by Hesrah’s desire to avenge her human best friend, Alexa. The baseborns are divided between rallying with those challenging the rule of Ankhsis and obeying the trueborns.
What emerges from the portal between Earth and Ankhsis in the middle of the turmoil rocking both worlds is more dead than alive. Neither human, nor baseborn, and certainly not trueborn. This new being will either damn them all or be their race’s most powerful weapon. Will they trust it not to destroy them, or will Ankhsis decide putting it down is the only solution?
In the end, who is guilty? Who will pay? Will anyone survive its wrath?
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Make sure you read book one of the series before enjoying book two!
The Edge of Hope – Bad Blood Trilogy, Book 1
Everyone she loved betrayed her. She felt lost and broken. Getting away from the pain and embracing a new path, Alexa decided to leave her old life behind and chase a long forgotten dream in Malta. There she met a gorgeous man, bearing the scent of fresh love. He led her to a new city to explore, Amsterdam. Is the tall, dark, and delicious man a dream come true or just a risky gamble?
Alexa chose hope and new beginnings over fear and warning signs only to be brutally dragged into a world she never really thought existed. Vampires, their feuds, and her future held tightly in their hands.
Trapped in a mysterious world, Alexa gives love chance after chance. Following her quest of self-discovery in a blood bound world, will she survive the journey?
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Prizes: 3 e-copies of The Edge of Hope, 2 e-copies of The Breaking of Bonds, 1 bundle of Bad Blood, books 1 & 2
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About the author
Writer, traveler, and coffee addict, Alina Popescu has been in love with books all her life. She started writing when she was ten and even won awards in local competitions. She has always been drawn to sci-fi, fantasy, and the supernatural realm, which explains her deep love for vampires and is also to blame for this trilogy.
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My Review
It was fascinating to learn about the creature Alexa has become. I use the word “creature” deliberately because she’s unlike everyone else, and she’s sometimes more an “animal” than a human. It was equally fascinating to learn more about Ankhsis, the world the vampires come from. Getting to know Magnus and Seth was great, and they were both very well fleshed-out characters that are important for the plot and certainly revealed more about how vampires “tick” in Popescu’s universe. And I think I have a huge crush on Seth now…
Speaking of crushes, adding a sort of love triangle to this novel was a nice touch and fit in well. It provided the emotional counterbalance and deeper meaning to the story which is otherwise driven by more action and gore than the first book. Also, it showed intriguing dynamics between Alexa and Louis that had in some way been present when Anthony was part of the picture, but that are now different.
I liked the way the violence was portrayed, and the way Alexa’s outer and inner transformation developed over the course of the story. It was also nice to meet Hesrah again and have another kickass female character alongside Alexa. As for Alexa, she makes an eclectic mix of heroine and villain and I do think there’s a lot of development potential for the third book in the trilogy.
I can recommend this book to all vampire fans, to all who long for a perfect combination of twisted love story and almost movie-like action, and to all who enjoy paranormal romance novels in general. But you’ll definitely have to read Book 1 first. In fact, you’d better even re-read it if like me you read it a long time ago, because you’ll need to catch up. Book 2 stops with an open end, but not with a real cliffhanger that will have you biting your nails.
Rating: 4/5
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