Blood Singers (Blood Series, #1) [Versión Kindle]

I really enjoyed the Death Series, so was looking forward to reading The Blood Singer. I mostly enjoyed the book, the story is engaging and I was interested in the main character, Julia. I did notice some discrepancies in a few details througout the book, but I can usually overlook those. What made me lower my rating to three stars was that Julia fainted at the mere hint of a problem. Every time something started to go wrong, down she went. It went from a dramatic detail to a farce - at least to me. I would like to see this book reedited with the little details straightened out, and the fainting eliminated.

Me and the Amish community will probably NEVER see eye to eye on.. well. anything. But there's ONE teeny tiny thing we can agree on.
Shunning..
I've used this technique a time or two when someone doesn't take my word of a good book ,or an author they need to watch.

So listen to me closely.....Read.this.book.

Julia's life is filled with tragedy at every turn. Just when she thinks things are starting to look up for her, she tragically loses her husband.
To make her loss even more acute, she is thrust into a world where Vampires and Weres' exist.
And each group needs something from her.... Blood . Her blood is not just that. It's uncommon and infrequent.
Each society wants it, and she's left making a hundred-to-one choice. All the while trudging through her new life as the Chosen....
If there is one thing that I've come to learn while reading Ms.Blodgett's novels is that you can NEVER assume who the leading love interest is.
I love a good love triangle as much as the next person. And, normally I can pin point who the MC is going to end up with.
I can never take the easy route with ANY of her novels!
She knocked me off my feet when I read her Savage Blood series. And she did it again with Blood Song!
She has this impressive ability of making you fall for the guy you THINK you should hate. The one you least expect!!

Now this leads me up to the Romance ...(Ah! there's the good stuff!)
I classify it as New Adult. It's not descriptive. YET.... (This is a good yet!) at the time, it is. It's descriptive with emotions, and intensity.
YOU want to BE the girl that is getting romanced by the massive hunk of a dude.
I'm not even going to go THERE with the males.. If I did, I'd bust out my graphical chart of who's more gorgeous than the next.. Then I'd get so frustrated I'd walk away because I can't tell you which male is more freakishly good looking!!!... They're all so great!!!
I know who my acclamation's for, and i'll leave it at that. But come on. Tamara could have Julia bounce back and forth between all of the guys and I'd be okay with it.

Vampire stories have been turned over, and re-used throughout the past few years that you can't even tell the difference between most plots...
Blood Song brings a unique twist to the genre that I completely wolfed down...

It's a MUST READ!

I am not sure how I feel about this book. I adore the author's Savage series, but this one had me confused from the very get go. Way too many POV's left me reeling. At first it seemed POV's were separated by different chapters, but then I started noticing a double space between paragraphs was all that separated them. So to say I was confused is an understatement. Why the need for so many POV's? I see that the author wanted to get many view points across, but 2 POV's is plenty. More than that makes a story hard to follow. Well in my opinion it does. It may be different for others.

Another thing that had me confused was the back and forth between the past and present. I never really understood it or its need to be done. Too many times I was rolling my eyes each time Julia `recalled' a conversation with someone. I knew then we would be taking back in time to hear what went on. Only to find it wasn't that relevant. I understand that the author was probably going for the whole `flashback' scenes but to me the story didn't need it.

What did I like? I loved Julia. I hurt for her when her husband was killed and I hurt when she was kidnapped...many times throughout the book. Each time was just when she was becoming acclimated to her surroundings. Each time she had to learn who held her captive and what they wanted from her. But bless her heart, the girl was like a fainting goat every time she felt threatened.

Did I like the story? Sure I did. Was it my favorite of the year? Nah. But it was good and I enjoyed the storyline. There was just those couple of things standing in its way to make it a really good read. Those few things had me wanting to stop at 80 pages in. But I powered through and enjoyed it. I was not fond of the multiple love interests but I really want to see what develops between Julia and some of the guys. I had high hopes for William, but found myself leaning towards Scott in the very end. So here's to Blood Song and to the hope that no more guys start vying for Julia's affection! A girl can only take so much attention. *snickers*