Blood Bargain (Blood Lines)
Keira Kelly is coming into her unexpected and unexpectedly awesome powers... and Rio Seco, Texas ain't ever gonna be the same! Keira just wants to be left alone without many responsibilities to her supernatural clan and, lately, spend some time with sexy Adam Walker - a vampire trying to get his brethren to give up human blood - on his luxurious Wild Moon ranch. But trouble and her paranormal family keep intruding - Gigi, Keira's great-great-grandmother and the chief of the clan has sent Tucker, Keira's 1,200-year-old shapeshifter brother to keep an eye on her!Product Details
Customer Reviews
Little Advancement in a Good Series
With almost absolutely no romance and very little plot line that actually advances this series Blood Bargain was a bit disappointing after such a good start to the series. The writing is still good, though there's more than a little politics dashed in. I happened to agree with most of it but still didn't think it was always appropriate to the storyline.
Basically Keira Kelly, whose still going though a sluggish change from powerless supernatural to the selection of her defined powers, and her shifter brother spend the whole book traveling around Rio Seco, Texas setting things right even though they aren't usually involved in the situations. No progress is made between Keira and powerful vampire Adam, who plays a weak role in this book.The suspenseful part in the graveyard is very creepy but the end of the book leaves you with a cliffhanger which you partially see way off. Don't get me wrong, I'm not writing this series off at all. But I'm just saying this one was kinda blah and I'm hoping for better things next time, which I'm sure the author will deliver.
Feels retooled from another genre
Not bad as a mystery novel, but there's a tendency for supernatural characters to act exactly natural 99% of the time. That gives one the impression that something like a mystery novel was modified to fit the vampire-shifter genre after the fact, without paying much attention to all the minute-by-minute differences there'd realistically be. (If "realistic" is a word we can use for such creatures!)
Second in series
I very much enjoyed 'Matters of the Blood', the first in this series (in fact an extract from my review is printed in the front of this second book). However I was a little disappointed by Blood Bargain.
There's nothing actually wrong with the story - it's a continuation of the vampire/shapeshifter/sidhe-themed story of Keira Kelly, a woman who has just started her Change and isn't sure yet what her powers will be; will she be a shapeshifter like her father, a sidhe like her mother, or something else altogether? She's living with Adam Walker, chief Vampire and owner of the Wild Moon Ranch, but she's beginning to worry about him. Adam is getting weaker and weaker and insists on surviving on animal, not human, blood.
Keira's thoughts are very much taken with Adam's health and yet she also finds herself investigating the disappearance of a Mexican man several months before, at the behest of his brother. Her searches seem to be uncovering a tale of missing people, and when four young people from the town of Rio Seco go missing, there is far more urgency. Is there some link to the strange angel statue at a cemetery near the Wild Moon Ranch? And could there even be some link to Adam's failing health?
As I was reading this book I had no idea where the plot was actually going. It was certainly not predictable, and the resolution of the mysteries was a bit of a surprise. It was also a slightly unusual read in that the hero of the previous book, Adam, had a minimal part to play in this story; instead, the foil for Keira was her hellhound brother, Tucker. It's also interesting that Keira has not yet come into her powers so, despite being supernatural, there's not a great deal extra she can do over the humans around her.
Although I enjoyed reading this book I felt it somehow didn't have as much as an impact as the previous book and that the plot lacked the ability to really grab my attention. It was well-written, however, and the setting of a small Texas town made a change from the usual big-city vampire tale.
Originally published for Curled Up With A Good Book © Helen Hancox 2009
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