Olivia grew up in a cult – a cult lead by her mother,
Mar, and is dedicated to becoming vampires. Subsisting nearly entirely on a diet
of human blood, they enjoy many advantages, but the final goal of changing and becoming
a true vampire still eludes them, they need that one last key.
Olivia and her friend have many doubts about the lifestyle the cult espouses and even more trouble with the daily life and the combat regime until Olivia finally reaches her 17th birthday and her rite of passage- hunting a human.
Which is when Erika the Kitsune gets involved, Olivia
achieves her cult’s goal, bodies start dropping and she’s briefly reunited with
her estranged sister and her compelling fiancé. Then more bodies start hitting
the ground and it’s a very steep learning curve.
This book has a really unique premise and world setting –
which is always refreshing to see and doubly so with any book about vampires. There
are so many vampire books out there that someone could write a book with
vampire were platypus which cruelly beak their victims to death and it’s
probably already been done 3 times.
So to mix up the kitsune and the vampires, to have this
unique origin story and this truly odd concept of a human vampire cult,
surviving on drinking blood and slowly developing minor vampire like abilities
while seeking their end goal of finally finding a way to transform and you have
a really unique concept.
This kept me reading the book for a long time because it
was so refreshing and so imaginative.
But, in the end, I stopped at 70% and couldn’t go any
further. Yes, I was defeated and this book became a DNF. There were several
reasons – none of which would probably have defeated me on their own but
together it was too much to tolerate
