Review (blood)

Life • Death • Destiny

      Blood

    Prod dets

Mercian Trilogy, book 1

Pub: 2011, Egmont

Author: K. J. Wignall

Cat: paranormal fiction

Format: paperback (mid); 278 pp w/ 26 chapters

Age Range: YA                                                 

            Synopsis

I do not remember being bitten. I wish I did, for then I would know the creature who did this to me and I would have a purpose, to track him down and repay him for the poisoned gift he gave me.

Will was once destined to be Earl of Mercia, although he never lived to inherit his title, struck down by a strange sickness at the age of sixteen. Yet despite his death—and burial—Will is far from dead.

His lonely life, a never-ending cycle of dealing with whatever the present day throws at him, always searching for answers to his existence, but never finding any before the long sleep claims him again.

Until now.

This time Will’s destiny awaits, but so do his enemies. After centuries of solitude, his fact is close at hand, but it is not something he can face alone...

     my Thoughts (review)

this is another book that I couldn’t finish, even worse it’s one that I couldn’t even flip threw to figure out what the hell was happening—this was mostly because you just couldn’t.

What I got (stopping: chap 16, page 157) is that isn’t very prophecy based, and maybe the whole point to the trilogy is to beat the head vampire—no, maybe the sorcerers? Yeah, I think I need more for this. But still, as it seems maybe he becomes human again? Maybe not? Shit, I’m sorry but I just couldn’t read it.

Why? (not a bitch, just helpful criticism) I found that I was reading an editor lacking novel, really it was like I could still see the cut and paste lines all over the place. Every paragraph, especially at the beginning, was written with the same line, yeah, it was worded slightly different, but it was the same line.

The first two parts, were odd, though I did understand it, mostly because of the rest of the book, the first part, was written like a diary entry, without the ‘dear reader’ part at the beginning, but like I said, I got that. The next part was....I don’t know, was it meant to be a complete outer pages writing, like when you read ‘A Christmas Carol’? Or was that meant to be like the rest of the book? And then when he finally meets her and gets her to come along—yeah, I get total freaking out, but the making out after....?

Anyway, unfortunately I can’t even put aside that this could be for someone else (though I know it could be) but it was the writing or the characters, the story that I didn’t like, it was the fact that it didn’t seem to be finished.

I liked the characters though, or at least I like William as a vampire character, I thought he was very well thought up, and all that, he spoke with a voice that was heard in his voice (you know what I mean, right?). And I really like the way he spoke about myths and all that crap. I also got why he still spoke in his out dated words. I really did like what I saw of the vampires. I liked the way he was about death. Hell, I just liked him. Really!  

The female character, Eloise was odd, not the way she was, but the fact that she saw him, they spoke, she told him her name, they went to get a drink and she had a different one because she didn’t want anyone to know her real name. So shouldn’t he then question if she told him her real name?, she also, wasn’t that real a person, though that could have been because by the time she came into it, I was already over the book, or she gets realer throughout the novel. I’m not sure, and I’ll never be able to answer that question because I will never pick this book up again.

Series

[tb], Alchemy,

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