Series: Drake Chronicles, Book Five
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Format: Paperback
Published: 5th June 2012
Number of Pages: 368
Book: For Review*
Genre: Urban Fantasy, Dark Romance, Paranormal, Thriller-Suspense, Humour, Action-Adventure, YA
Recommended
Age: 12+
Contains: Violence, Death, Swearing, Alcohol References
No Drug References
“I
can still taste his blood, Lucy. I can
smell it everywhere. It’s in the grass,
in the air, on me. I’m not safe.”
When
the vampire tribes convene for the rare Blood Moon ceremonies, Solange Drake is
plunged into a battle with her feral nature.
The Drake brothers have been raised knowing they had to protect their
younger sister at all cost. But
forbidden magic and a mysterious stranger have put all of them in terrible
danger.
Nicholas
is going to have to make a difficult choice: between his girlfriend, Lucy, and
his little sister, Solange – blood, or love?
Review:
I'm not going to be exaggerating when I
tell you I have about a million quotes from this book written down on random
scraps of paper. When something makes you laugh as much as this made me,
it's criminal not to write it
down. Now I can't even tell you guys how amazing this book was. It's so many kinds of awesome it's
untrue. If you haven't read this series yet, I'm gonna do the book review
equivalent of begging on my knees. I... am going to say please, IN CAPITOL LETTERS!
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE read the Drake
Chronicles and discover the awesomeness for yourself. It's so utterly
and all-round amazing: you'll love it forever. And you'll love every
single one of the Drake brothers too. 'Cause they're yummy. Very, very yummy...
“Solange
was gone.
“I
wasn't sure who was standing in front of me. She might have Solange's
ethereal beauty and her ballerina grace, but she wasn't Solange...”
Solange Drake changed when she became a
vampire. Now she's struggling to hold onto her humanity, to keep the
feral side of herself at bay.
Her brothers have been raised to protect
Sol, knowing they must keep her safe no
matter what.
But with the vampire tribes gathering for
the Blood Moon ceremony, bringing with it a mysterious stranger who is putting
them all in terror danger, can Nicholas keep Solange safe?
Especially when he's forced between Lucy,
the girl he loves, and Solange, his baby sister...
This series... Oh, how I love it. It's shot way up my fave
series list: no matter how many books I read, it never gets even the tiniest
bit dull. I could actually read about it all forever and ever. And
then a little more. If you haven't read this series, please, please do! All the books are
amazing, addictive, almost drug-like in the addictiveness. Whenever I put Blood
Moon down, I was instantly desperate
it pick it right back up and read and read and read. And yes, it really
was that good!
I love all the characters in this series,
even the smaller one. But Lucy is just my
favourite character ever. She totally kills me, with her loathing of
taking orders and that insane vampire rights activist side, what with her
hatred of “rampant vampire racism"!
God, she's awesome. People could learn from the way she handled
bullies. Well, y'know, the ones she doesn't punch in the nose or
pepper-egg... Nicholas Drake, how I love you! How can you not when he says things like: "I knew damn well if Lucy broke up with
me I'd still love her until I turned to dust." He’s so brave,
strong, wonderful, and just perfect. But please, oh please let that last bit not be true!! Solange was just… whoa. Terrifying. I wanted to jump into the book and slap the
stupid outta her. I am so insanely glad
there's a reason for the freakiness, but man!
She was scary!
And I loved seeing some of my old
favourites, like Chloe, a Helios Ra student and Lucy and Hunter’s friend. And I almost forgot how kickbutt awesome
Hunter is! I also really liked newcomer Jenna
– the snarky retort scenes between her and Lucy had me cracking up! I
also love Kieran, especially as we learn more about his past. But Constantine: grr! He reminded me of Spike from Buffy, but
without the yumminess. I trusted the guy
about as far as I could throw him (not
far at all, given my lack of upper body strength). I just couldn’t get a read on the blasted
guy: ergo, grr-ing.
Mirror,
mirror on the wall, who's my favourite Drake of them all?*
God, I love the Drake family - the brothers
in particular. They kill me! I love the banter and jokes and how
they'd do anything for one another. They’re all so loyal, protective and
yummy. And their parents totally rock too! But why must you make me fall head over heels
in love with this family, Alyx, and then terrify
me about their safety? Why, why; WHY?!
*sniffles* Nicky...
I adore the writing in this series. I
love the split POV, how we get into everyone's heads, how all the voices sound
unique. And, oh, how awesome it was to finally have Nicholas as a narrator! While I loved the Sol
chapters (though they were mega creepy), Lucy and Nick just stole the
show! They're both so funny and my two favourite characters - and my
favourite couple ever! And, man, I love the plots in these
books. Action-packed, suspenseful,
twisty and addictive – double dollop of each with a nice spoonful of romance
too. But after I finished Blood Moon… Damn it, Alyxandra Harvey:
another worst freaking cliff-hanger EVER! You’re gonna drive me insane – my sanity
(already pretty sketchy) is at stake here!
(See what I did, with the joke ‘bout the stake? Heehee, I thought it was funny anyhoo… But it could
just be me going crazy already…)
With more suspense, twists, mystery and the
WORST EVER CLIFFHANGER, Blood Moon quite literally rocked my
world. I could not put it down. At all. Ever. It was so
addictive, so amazing, so... wow!
I can't put into words how all round awesome it was. So I'll just say
this: if you only read one vampire series ever,
please, please, PLEASE make it this one!
It’s my favourite vamp series… Plus, the Drake boys are all so totally yummy!
Extra Mini Review of Lost Girls by Alyxandra Harvey
The short story at the end of my book, Lost Girls, was more than awesome.
I love Helena - she's the coolest mom ever
- and it was awesome getting to see why she's so kickbutt! It made me
love her even more! And Liam Drake has always been 'Dad', but in this...
he's actually kinda hot. Maybe it should be weird, fancying Nick's dad,
but really it's just another Drake boy for me to love. It's so easy to
just think of them as parents, but after this they’re so much more! I
love them even more and totally get them now too. And the story line of Lost Girls totally rocked! It was just such an awesome little
novella! I loved it to pieces! I always knew Helena was kickbutt,
but I never knew how kickbutt!
As for Cass, Lucy’s mum? Man, can I see the mother-daughter
resemblance!
*P.S. This is a reference to the
inspiration of the story: Snow White and the Seven Dwarves: get it, Sol is Snow
and her brothers are the dwarves!
Ha!
Star Rating:
5 Out of 5
5 Out of 5
Read this
book if you liked:
Bloodlines by Richelle Mead
Paranormalcy by Kiersten White
Medusa Girls by Tera Lynn Childs
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Happy Reading
Megan
* This
book was received from Bloomsbury in exchange for an honest review
3 comments:
Sounds amazing! Really need to get my hands on this series!
I feel it is appropriate for the age it targets and fun for those who have passed that age a long time ago and still like to revisit it through books. It is a Great mix of Humor, action and adolescent romance. (not too heavy) The characters are well developed with distinct personalities. I love this series!
Jasmine
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