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First, I was amazed and astounded that in the praises, the very first one, was from my very own blog. Thank you Ms. Krafton for that it totally made my day.

Now onto my review....

Ash Krafton has done it again, I'm amazed with this series. And the next one is being released in 2014. REALLY ASH? you're killing me here lol.

it's a little over one year since the last book, an Sophie is going day by day, working her normal job, and working as the Sophia for the Demivampire community. She hasn't had any contact with her DV family and friends, and she's left with a huge hole in her center a hole that was placed by her soulmate her true love Merick. Until she is contacted by her ex's brother,Rodrian, about a proposition she is unable to refuse.

While settling into her new home, and dealing with the ghost of Merick, another Sophia contacts her. She thens meets this Sophia to learn how to be a better Sophia.

During all this she's still lost and confused with her life and love, she also grows to be stronger and therefore is growing to be a better Sophia. Rodrian and Sophie grow closer, and then all of a sudden Merick pops back into the picture. Is he the old Merick, no of course not, he's completely different, and completely cold, especially to Sophie. Also there has been a Were that has been following her, one day she gets bold and confronts him, and it turns out Toby the werewolf, is more than what she initially believed him to be. Sophie is lead down a road, where the unheard of is happening, a battle she never thought she would face, and a new goal set out for her, as she continues to find a way to find a way to save her one true love, her soulmate, Merick.

This book is filled with the continued loss of a soulmate, love found by another, power is brought to someone special, and something I never expected happened that makes the whole series, even more breathtaking, and makes me bloodthirsty for more... hehe no pun intended, maybe, I think.

This book, this series, is phenomenal... phenomenally phenomenal even. If you are not reading you are definitely missing out.

this book was A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!!!!!

The moment I picked up this book and read a few pages I was hooked, I had stayed up all night reading this and had spent a part of today finishing it up. It was totally a boy meets girl, boy falls for girl, girl falls for boy, girl finds power, boy goes fights enemy, and girl loses boy story. Mareck, was interested in Sophie the moment he met her, Sophie became interested in the first moment she had thought she met him. They dated for a but, then one night they witnessed someone being attacked and kill, the killer being a vampire. Marek was a demivampire not fully a vampire. Vampire's in this story are created in a different way than I have ever read. They have to lose their soul to become a vampire, until then they are only demivampire. I loved the use of Egyptian history in this. And the details of the scenery and the character detail was awesome, I felt I was right there watching everything play out in front of me. I also love the uniqueness is some of the names. Basically the only other thing I can say about this book though is, When is the next one Coming out.

P.S. I loved this book soooooo much it has been placed on my favorites list and I will recommend this book to everyone I know. :)

A definite must read.

Thank you Ash Krafton for this wonderful new series. YAY EXCITED FOR BLOOD RUSH & WOLF'S BANE:D

What would you do to cheat death? That's the question that lies at the very heart of The Heartbeat Thief. In fact, it's the very question that plagues Miss Senza Fyne, the protagonist of this story. When your whole life is your beauty, when you're pampered and primped, raised with the sole purpose of claiming a good husband, how do you face down time? Time, which will steal that beauty. Time, which will steal those closest to you. That deep, dark fear of the unknown is exactly what drives our protagonist, and it makes for a rather interesting story.

I'll admit that Senza took a while to grow into a character I liked. I didn't fault her for her prim and proper demeanor, nor for the way she drank in the attention of others. It's simply how she was raised. No, what made it hard for me to like Senza was how deeply irrational her fear of death felt on the surface. I have firsthand knowledge of how hard it is to lose a loved one. It cuts deep, and isn't something that goes away. For Senza though, the loss of her loved one caused something that felt forced to me, at least at first. Suddenly she was terrified of dying. So much so, she put her faith in a gorgeous stranger that she had never even met. Does that sound wise? I think not.

However, as the story progressed, things evened out. This story spans decades, and Senza slowly comes to experience much more than she ever expected in her long lifetime. I appreciated how AJ Krafton navigated history. Senza was put into situations that took her out of her comfort zone, and it was those times that I liked her the most. The more pain she went through, the more real she became. By the time I'd reached the ending, I actually understood her. I mentioned it above, but if beauty is all you've ever had, how do you let go of that and journey into the unknown?

While this isn't a perfectly etched out story, the premise and the constant hopping through the decades keeps things fresh. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at how much growing Senza does throughout this book. She comes out a brand new person, and a wonderful one at that, on the other end. Hand me characters that grow and learn, and you have my heart. A solid three stars to The Heartbeat Thief.

~ 2 Words That Bind Stars ~

Words That Bind is a story filled with magic, mystery, and a little mayhem. Not much on the romance side of things.

This story had an interesting concept. I liked the idea, more then the execution. We have Tam who is a social worker and then our djinn Burns. I enjoyed learning about both characters, but I never connected to them, so I never believed that either one fell in love with the other. It felt like the author was more into Tam’s practice and ethics, then into developing the actual romance. The romance it’s self was a very slow burn and when it came to the sex scene, I am not sure how to describe it. It was very wordy and not at all in a hot and bothered kind of way. More mentally feeling the connection, then the actual act of it.

Another thing I noticed that got to me was somethings in the story where never finished. An example is the doorway that Tam discovers. Nothing ever comes of it, so it felt odd that there was emphasis on it. There where a few more things like this that the author emphases, but never developed it, so why do that?

Last the ending was weird and felt unfinished in a way to me.

I did like the spin on the genies and the mystery surrounding them. I also enjoyed how unique and different Tam is. You learn so much about why she draws Burns to her and why she can never break her word. It was unique.

Words That Bind left me feeling very undecided by the finish of the novel. It was not the book for me. If the blurb intrigues you, I urge you to give it a shot. Just because it did not work for me does not mean it won’t for you.

Along the years I have read a lot of vampire books and have seen different takes on the same subject, some of them really clever but many others not so much. So when I looked at this book’s blurb I thought it was just another one to add to the long list of books to add to the "forget pile". But I was pleasantly surprised, the characters were well built, the story was fresh enough to keep me wanting to know more and more about Sophie and Marek and I couldn't stop reading it.

Sophie's character was really interesting to get to know, she was nice to everyone but without being weak. Sometimes she was actually too nice and always wanting to help someone, trying to sort out their problems, but that was also what made her so likeable, the need to have a purpose in life and making a difference to people. Giving advice is also what she does for a living, being the agony aunt for a local magazine. I totally loved Marek, he was so dark but at the same time so sweet and he always kept Sophie safe no matter what. The way that he treats Sophie throughout the whole book totally makes the book so worth the read. Even at the end (I’ll not spoil it for you!) he did what he thought was best for her and I can’t wait for the next book, I really really need to know what happens next.

The only negative thing I would say is that I would have liked to actually read their sex scenes and that is the reason why I'm giving it four stars and not five. It didn't feel right to have such chemistry between them and then just gloss it over when the sex finally happened. I think adding the scenes would have really helped cement the connection that they slowly built since the beginning. Also Marek’s ability to touch Sophie's inner emotions and enhance her sexual desire towards him had loads of possibilities and should have been explored in depth.
Aside from this I really enjoyed the book and I’m eagerly waiting for the next one to come out.

Book kindly provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.

This could have been spectacular. It missed some amazing opportunities, though, and was poorly written, and unfortunately that impacts my rating and opinion of the book. Along with the ending.

Unless it is based in some mythology or folklore I've never heard of, the author created a new kind of vampire. Dead/undead, unkillable, stealing heartbeats from others to take the place of those no longer stirring her own heart, Senza Fyne is perpetually eighteen years old. Once so afraid of death that she agreed to this still-hearted existence, now she avoids staying in one place for too long and watches as those she loves age and die.

The initial problem I have with this really terrific premise is … it simply takes too long to manifest. For nearly a third of the book (29%, thank you Kindle reading progress counter) Senza is battered by first the death of a favorite grandmother and then of a friend, and – along with her mother's constant badgering that she needs to snare a husband before her great beauty fades – that is supposed to be the reason she is so terrified of death. It doesn't work. She meets with the mysterious Mr. Knell quite some time after the second death in her life, when she seemed to be beginning to recover. If at that point she had, say, witnessed a child run over in the busy street or something of the sort, I could understand her worry blossoming into a full-blown obsession. Or if another adventure in the story had been the focus of the beginning, I would have bought into the whole plot much more readily.

The adventure I refer to there is Senza's involvement in the Jack the Ripper murders. Without spoilers, I will say that it felt wildly implausible; for one thing, there's no historical basis as far as I know that all of the Ripper's victims knew each other. I think that would have been counted as evidence. Late nineteenth century police work was primitive, but even then something like a common pimp or customer among the victims would probably have come to light. And quite simply the depiction of the victims in this book is historically inaccurate, and served to make me less than trusting of pretty much the rest of the author's research. (For one thing, the final victim was blonde.)

At least Senza didn't become a gorgeous female Forrest Gump, inserting herself into historical events at every turn, and I'm grateful for that. Her peregrinations take her out of history, which actually makes the Whitechapel events stand out even more – not in a good way.

Senza is gorgeous – stunningly gorgeous. And the reader is never allowed to forget it, not for a moment. Tight third-person perspective or no, her astonishing beauty is kept at the forefront. ("I can’t imagine you ever looking less than perfect.” She dropped her gaze. She couldn’t imagine it, either.) Oddly, it's never made out to be a burden as I've seen elsewhere; the only readon it's not an asset is that, as her mother does keep reiterating, beauty fades. But Senza has a brain as well, and reads constantly – especially Shakespeare. This should have been endearing, for me. It wasn't, merely because it all comes back, as so many things do, to "show and tell". No matter how many times I'm told that Senza is ever-so-clever and knows Hamlet by heart and can out-argue philosophers and scholars … I was never shown it. There are very occasional scenes in which she is shown reading – or, rather, sitting somewhere with a book and thinking about Mr. Knell or her troubles; she quotes Shakespeare once, to my knowledge; otherwise her dialogue and behavior show no indication of all those brains.

One major area where the unique and fascinating premise of the book is simply let down is in the way it is dealt with in the narration. By this I mean: The book is told from the point of view of Senza, the thief, whose existence is turned upside-down by this "gift", and who – at a sheltered and innocent eighteen – has to learn how to manage the new facts of her life. An incident is described from the first days of her altered state – but apart from her awareness of the need to avoid another such incident, there's not really anything here about how she avoids it (does she lock her door at night? Use a doorstop? Claim to kick and snore in order to avoid bedfellows?) The mechanics of stealing heartbeats are glossed over, but more would have been better: I would have preferred less buildup to the change and more on her learning curve. And at certain points the stolen heartbeats are described as having a flavor or weight to them – but again there is little more than that provided. Again, in a tight-perspective narrative, where POV never leaves the main character and where that character's entire existence centers around others' heartbeats, I expected there to be more color, more data. What do they taste like? How do they have weight? What are the mathematics to their being used up? How does she work out her routine of where and from whom they're stolen?

So, the idea was terrific, let down by execution – and by the writing. For example, the author has a strange disconnect with gender in her vocabulary, which perhaps will be fixed for a final draft. The mysterious Mr. Knell constantly calls Senza "bien-aimé" – the masculine form of the endearment; a man's hair is described as "blonde", commonly the feminized form of the adjective.

"The captivating woman with the eyes that never stopped." Stopped what? "Most interesting was the fact that the fan, once the ultimate female weapon, had been replaced by the ever-useful garter belt and the secrets they concealed." What secrets, and how big is her garter belt? "Exploring the costal colonies—states, she’d remind herself" – aside from the typo, Senza wasn't so old she'd be thinking of the states as colonies. This is ridiculous.

I had an issue with the idea of a love interest being named Gehring. Sorry – too many evil echoes.

And yes, I am aware that at least some of the problems I saw might have been resolved before the book's final release; this was, after all, a Netgalley ARC (thanks to them and the publisher for a free copy for review.) Things like a move to France with no mention I could find that Senza ever learned to speak French. Things like a fairly important character (the innkeeper) who is never given a name. Things like "too" and "as well" being used in the same sentence; "everyone … were"; "laying" where "lying" should have been used (this is becoming more and more common); things like part of a sentence being in the present tense and the other part in the past; things like someone "knicker"ing to a horse (which is wrong in so many ways). Et cetera, et cetera… I did a lot of highlighting. ("His heart banged like a bull"?)

Speaking of horses, the line "And she had no interest in being sold off, ridden for sport, or put out for stud" irked me deeply. She is rather unlikely to be put out to stud, no?

Speaking of horses some more: "He grasped her hand and tugged it toward him, reining her in like a yearling." What? I'm sorry, anyone who's reining in a yearling needs to be reported to the RSPCA. And … I just don’t see the simile. (It's far from the only bad simile – I just don't want to make this a ten-pager.)

And still speaking of horses and being deeply irked, "the master’s quarter horse". As with verbal anachronism, I have absolutely no patience with horse-related anachronism. The odds of someone having a quarter horse – which is a specific breed, not something more vague – in 1921 France is just short of impossible. I should just write and save a diatribe to cut and paste into reviews for books like this: it's so easy to avoid stupid mistakes like this which only serve to rile people who know a little. Research. It took me less than five minutes to confirm my strong hunch that this was totally wrong. Why did I have to?

Sadly, this is one of those times that upon working through my notes and beating a review into shape, my rating for the book goes down. I’m leaving it with one and a half stars simply because the idea was so very interesting. But I'm tempted to take one away because it was just badly done.

And the ending was dreadful. What an absolutely terrible idea - almost bad enough to completely negate the original concept. Pity.½

Krafton's The Heartbeat Thief was not at all the book I expected. Now, that can be a good thing or a bad thing. In this case, it was a very good thing. It is a story of the greatest of loves, of sacrifice, and of lessons harshly learned. It is a story of the dangers of letting one's fears guide one's choices, and of learning to face those fears.

Senza Fyne is a young lady of Victorian society who suffers two devastating losses shortly after making her debut into society. The losses are a terrifying brush with death that mar her transition from child to adult, and spark a phobia that ends with Senza making a deal to have her life essence taken. This freezes her body at the age of eighteen, ensuring that she will not die. There's a catch though. She must steal heartbeats from others in order to survive. Little snatches of life essence that others won't miss.

Though Senza gains a freedom from the thing she fears most, she enters a lonely existence where she must remain aloof from others. She really must adopt Mycroft's dubious advice to his younger brother in the BBC's modernised Sherlock- 'All lives end. All hearts are broken. Caring is not an advantage.' Senza endures, but must watch family, friends, and even ways of life fall to the inevitable eddies and currents of time. Senza, whose birth name is Constance, becomes just that. A constant point fixed beyond time.

Senza spends lifetimes, wandering from place, to place, provided for by Knell, the granter of her Unlife. Knell, her 'dark seducer', who granted her desire, and in doing so, had to remain forever just beyond her reach. Knell allows Senza time to realise that the thing she feared the most need not be feared at all. She learned the truth of my favourite quote, from the song Key to Twilight- 'Auguries of destruction be a lullaby for rebirth.'

I loved the cover. It was one of the major attractions for me. I also enjoy stories set in the Victorian era, no matter the genre. In Senza, Krafton gives a nice twist to the tired old trope of the vampire. Though never once called such, Senza is a psychic vampire, drawing as she does the life-force of others to sustain her own existence.

If you are looking for a captivating read that will draw you in and leave you breathless, look no further than The Heartbeat Thief. I devoured this book in a single day. I couldn't go to bed but that I had finished it.

I got a copy of this book to review through NetGalley. I really really loved this book. I enjoyed the Victorian setting and the beautifully flawed characters, as well as the premise behind the story.

The story is set in Victorian times and is about an 18 year old girl named Sezna who has everything but is absolutely terrified of death and losing her beauty. Then a beautiful stranger strikes a deal with her...he will give her the ability to stay young and beautiful forever, the catch is that she must survive off of the heartbeats of those around her.

I came into this expecting a YA paranormal book, but ended up with a story that was so much more. The story takes place across many many years (we are talking over a century here). The premise makes Sezna sound shallow and selfish, but she doesn’t come off as that way in the story. Sezna has had a number of people close to her die and this had made her terrified of the idea of death. In addition to that her mother has drilled into her over and over again that Sezna’s only worth is in her beauty. Sezna is also smart and witty but she has been brought up to believe that those traits don’t have any value.

I absolutely loved the premise of someone living off of other people’s heartbeats. It is fairly vampiric but I love the subtlety and poeticness of it all. Just a gentle brush here or there is all it takes for Sezna to steal a heartbeat.

The story is beautifully written. I love how our heroine is flawed and makes mistakes only to change her situation and make new ones. She does learn, but she learns slowly and over many many decades. It is a bittersweet story with an amazingly hopeful ending and both gothic and romantic overtones to it.

I loved how the story spanned the ages and we constantly get to see Sezna living in new times with new people and still having similar problems. The big reveal of who the mysterious young gentleman was was incredibly predictable...but that didn’t make it any less sweet.

Technically this book is being marketed as New Adult, but I didn’t really read any parts in here that weren’t YA friendly. The heroine does “age” and get older in a maturity sense, but she remains forever locked at eighteen.

Overall I absolutely loved this book. I loved the premise and the main heroine and how the story spans a vast amount of time. The book is well written and engaging and the main character is captivating both in her vulnerability and her selfishness. I would definitely recommend to fans of Victorian or gothic YA literature with a bit of a paranormal twist to it.

Blood Rush: Book Two of The Demimonde is the follow on book to the fabulously successful Bleeding Hearts paranormal romantic suspense novel by Ash Krafton. To say that I was excited to get my hands on the book that was the follow up to one of my top favorites of 2012 was an understatement, and I couldn't wait to crack the cover and get to the opening paragraph. I was not disappointed. Blood Rush is a finely crafted paranormal suspense novel which I couldn't put down. Anyone who loves these types of novels needs to read this series. Ms. Krafton is so talented at making her characters feel real that your emotions rise and sink with their successes and failures. You want them to succeed and overcome any problems and dangers, and you want them to be safe and loved. Sophie especially feels like such a real person, with all her self doubt and her strengths, her capabilities, her compassion, and her humor along with her silly shoe choices for the sake of fashion. She is one of my favorite heroines of all time. Her compassion and willingness to help others makes her such a good person with a huge heart. I read this book in less than 6 hours because I could not tear myself away. There is no doubt in my mind that this series is destined for great things, as is the author.

This second book picks up a year and a half after the first ends with the main character Sophie, now a full time Oracle for the Demivampire or DV as well as an advice columnist for the Mag. She is alive and well but alone with only her cat Euphrates for company. Grieving for her soul mate Marek – who is in the process of transforming from a DV into a full vampire who almost killed her in the first book, Sophie gets wrapped up with Marek's family when Marek's brother, Rodrian insists that Sophie not only lives in one of Marek's mansions, but helps Rodrian's daughter, Shiloh, through a very dangerous medical process then helps her after using Sophie's Oracular powers. At the same time, Sophie has been ditching a werewolf who has been on her track for the last four months after a werewolf assassin tried to kill her, also, there is a new Oracle Sophia who has come to town who may be able to train Sophie to use her new Oraclular powers, but can the new Oracle help Marek become a DV once again and make Sophie's world right so that she can have her soul mate back and have her love requited?

The plot of this book has so much going on in it: the unresolved issues with Sophie's romance with Marek, her new role as Oracle and how she is dealing with that, her undefined relationship with Rodrian, Shiloh's illness, everyone's fear of Blood Rush (which is an addiction for supercharged blood that DV can develop), the werewolf stalking Sophie, the Oracle from Hungary, new information about the DV and werewolves that interweaves through the plot as well as information that sheds new light on events in the first book – Bleeding Hearts. This is not one of those books where you have everything figured out half way through. It wasn't until the ending sections that everything was finally revealed – though the clues were all there, you don't put them together until the ending. It is an action packed plot with many plot threads that intricately weave in and out of each other - which keeps the pacing steady and swift, with no lulls or slow spots.

Characters that you will recognize from Bleeding Hearts include: Demivampires Marek, Rodrian, Shiloh, her sister Brianda and Sophie's friend Dahlia as well as human friend and boss Barb. The biggest new additions include Toby – a werewolf, the new Sophia from Hungary, Eirene, and her servant Dorcas. Out of all of them, Rodrian, Dahlia, and Toby stand out as most sympathetic in this book, with Shiloh coming in a close second, as she is going through some serious teenage angst. I really thought that adding Toby and fleshing out Dahlia was a fantastic idea. Both are strong characters who added much to this book, and I am sure will continue to add more to the third book. Krafton does such an incredible job with characterization, that even her secondary characters are fully fleshed out, making the story character driven as well as plot driven. This factor makes the story itself feel quite real, even for a paranormal adventure. The emotions, quirks, foibles, as well as strengths of the characters all blend to create such a symphony of interaction that tells the story of a group of a people going through some wonderful, outrageous and horrendous events in their lives. The ensemble – headed up by Sophie, comes together effortlessly in the hands of Krafton to portray events that feel real to the reader due to the authenticity of the human interaction, the dialog, her description of supernatural capabilities as completely believable . Ms. Krafton writes with a subtlety that few authors can attain, and it is as apparent here as it was in Bleeding Hearts, which was one of my favorite Books of 2012.


The ending was quite heart rending as well as heart warming along with being action packed – try pulling that off some time! It ties up many story arcs that provided a satisfying conclusion to the book without being a cliffhanger ending ( which I cannot abide), while leaving enough issues open for a third book in the series, which will be out later - called Wolfs Bane. Those who are expecting the same level of romance in Bleeding Hearts will be a tad disappointed – but don't let that stop you from reading Blood Rush – Blood Rush is the natural continuation of Sophie's story, bringing in new story lines, twisting existing story arcs while transforming relationships. I can't wait for the third book in the series. Ms. Krafton has a hot series on her hands and it just keeps getting better. Paranormal fans will rejoice and should run not walk to their nearest bookstore or electronic device to buy the series now.

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Blood Rush is book two in the Demimonde series by Ash Krafton. It is preceded by Bleeding Hearts: Book one of the Demimonde. I do strongly recommend that you read the books in order. It is my understanding that Blood Rush picks up where Bleeding Hearts ends. Blood Rush happens to be my first book by this author, and even though I really liked the book, I do wish that I had read them in order.

Blood Rush is a really exciting fast paced book full of mystery and suspense. It is loaded with twists and turns to keep the reader engaged. You are going to love the characters in this book. Sophie our main character an advice columnist, is also an oracle to the demivampire, and among other things she is flawed. Most of the characters in the book are flawed and that for me is what makes them all the more real and relatable.

If you are a fan of vampires like I am or a fan of the paranormal, then you will love this book. Pick it up and dive in head first into the world of the demivampire.

Sophie doesn't believe in happily ever after. These days, she'd settle for alive after sunrise. Advice columnist and newly-appointed oracle to the demivampire, Sophie Galen has more issues than a Cosmo collection: a new mentor with a mean streak, a werewolf stalker she can't shake, and a relationship with her ex's family that redefines the term complicated. And then there's her ex himself, who is more interested in playing leader of the vampire pack than in his own salvation. Becoming a better oracle is tough enough, but when Sophie encounters a deadly enemy - one she never dreamed of facing - it will take everything she's ever learned in order to survive.

See the full Gravetells.com review here: http://gravetells.com/2012/07/19/review-bleeding-hearts-demimonde-1-by-ash-kraft...

Sophie Galen, a magazine advice columnist, has always had the gift of sensing others’ emotions and is hardwired for helping people. The tragedies from her past have left her emotionally closed off and thinking she’d never find true love again. Then she meets Marek, a dark, brooding stranger whose soul cries out for her help and whose heart beckons her to let him in. Marek introduces her to a dark, dangerous world she never knew existed and that her multiple deadbolts won’t deter. Opening her heart to Marek is the least of her worries as Sophie finds herself in a battle waged to save his soul. Bleeding Hearts is a GraveTells Must-Read!

*Review originally written for GraveTells. No compensation was received.

I am a huge stickler for books needing a good opening. There is nothing worse than opening a book and wanting to be pulled into a world quickly and then it taking a third of the book to get into it. This book does a really good job of the beginning. It brings you in really quickly to the characters and the world. There isn't a lot of info dumps (something that also drives me crazy in beginnings of books), so I am more than happy to report that this book has a pretty solid beginning that I can say I really enjoyed.

The pacing of the novel itself was really good and enjoyable. I didn't feel like there was a lot of downtime within the book, but I also didn't feel like there was too much action all the time either. It was a really well balanced book. I think a combination of the pacing as well as having a solid well written beginning resulted in me really enjoying the character of Sophie. I felt like I knew her pretty well and when I was reading about her I would want to know more. I liked who she was as a person so it was really easy for me to enjoy reading a story about what was going on in her life.

This story has a pretty big romantic element with in it, which is perfectly fine with me, I love a good love story. But for me this particular love story suffers from a very common syndrome in books, the "non-organic love story". What I mean by this is when two characters are suddenly and inexplicably in love with each other. People, in my opinion, take time to fall in love with one another, and this is especially true in books. Yes two people can fall in lust, and that's perfectly fine, but when they are inexplicably in love it just doesn't feel right to me and is slightly annoying.

I also would like to say that I really enjoyed some of the world building elements in this book. There was a lot of Egyptian elements in the book, and I have to say I love that in the book. I love anything that takes history and uses it in really cool ways to come up with some really cool concepts, and this book did that really well for me.

I did enjoy reading this book, and I think anyone who enjoys reading urban fantasy would enjoy reading this book. I think there are some good concepts in the book and there is a lot of really solid world building. I liked the book overall, and anyone looking for a fun and enjoyable read you should check this out.