Bonnie Erina Wheeler

I received a free copy of this novel for my honest review. This is book 2 of the Erris Coven Series. This book certainly doesn’t disappoint. The character development was fantastic; you feel a connection with each character. The book also toggled points of view between Braden and Liz, which I absolutely loved! If you like paranormal romance, mystery, and dark novels or any one of these, this is definitely the book for you. I enjoyed it thoroughly and I hope there will be many more books to the series, it’s a truly unique story.… (más)

I received this book to review from the R2R event organized by Kayleigh on the Paranormal and Urban Fantasy Club. It was a quick light read with a nice twist at the end (that I should say I didn't see coming). But, it was too much Twilight, and that kind of buried it for me from the beginning.

It was obvious that the author put some time writing and editing this novel, but it still needs to be improved. The writing was immature with lots of unnecessary repetitions of proper nouns and expressions. There were a ton of grammar mistakes that I won't be pointing out. At some places the tenses were mixed up incorrectly - past when it should've been present and vice versa.

There were also a couple of inconsistencies with the story. I was annoyed by the simple sentence constructions, which felt like a plague for this book. It could've been written in a much much better way, with intricate constructions of the descriptions and narration. As it were, most paragraphs felt like I was reading the script of an Animal Planet film, aka in a monotonous boring drone.

The literary side of the writing was missing, which was a huge minus to me. I can't say I didn't enjoy it, I did, but it had nothing to do with my feelings toward a brilliant book that would stir the very cells of my body. This one just read to pass time. In other words - nothing special about it.

I did get annoyed by the quick development of Lexie and Torin's romantic relationship. Firstly, the characters themselves felt shallow and underdeveloped, and secondly - they were kissing just after exchanging a couple of words. If that's not rushed, I don't know what is. Perhaps the fact that they didn't know each other almost at all before they were bonded? Even if the two were fated to be together, this relationship should've been given the time to develop before either of them could trust the other fully. I do believe in love at first sight, but this wasn't it. This was a foolish way to put the characters together.

I can't say that Torin was swoon worthy, because I didn't get to know him well enough to make such a conclusion. Nor can I point out Lexie as a fighter, because she didn't really hold her ground.

With all that said, I think that the story has potential to become much better if the author decided to put some time revising.… (más)

I loved this book just as much as book one. I liked how book one wrapped up the relationship of Lexie and Tornin. We are introduced to Lexies Best friend in book one, Liz, and know of Braden, Torin’s cousin.

Well in this book Blood Twist, it follows Braden and Liz and a whole bunch of other exciting things. We see a return of Braden’s long lost older brother, who went to the “dark” side, if you read book one, you will know what I mean. I do not want to give anything away, as that is what is so great about these books.

Now, if you had not read book one. I suggest you stop now on reading this review, as it can have a few spoilers for book one, but not book two.

I really love how easily Liz excepted the half vampires called damphyrs, and really was happy to see that her and Braden may have a chance, only hiccup is that they had not dreamed of each other, which is what usually happens with their Fate partner (soul mate the supernatural way) But I was rooting for them anyway.

I found I liked Riley, after I got to know more of his story, it was sad, it really was, and hope we do see more of him in future books. I won’t say who he is, or what his story is, so not to spoil that for you.

I highly recommend this series. It really is a different spin on the vampire stories, very different. I really enjoyed it, and hope to see the next book Soul Kissed to be out soon, I hope.

5 out of 5 stars for me, for sure.

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