Title: Bloodspell
Author: by Amalie Howard
Series: (Bloodspell #1)
Published: June 2011 by Langdon Street Press
 

I’m not in the mood to write anything lately here. Plus, I’m tweaking this little blog of mine to satisfy the webdesigner in me. Regardless of how simple this theme is, nothing can beat the feeling that you, alone, have this theme. Only me. And yes, the internet is a vast world, chances are it might resemble someone else’s, but this is custom made. By me, to me.

Sorry, that’s Mitchii, the webdesigner, not Mitchii the book junkie. Anyway. You can check out my goodreads account to see what I’ve been reading these days. I just finish two books after VA and I’m sort of lazy to write anything. And it didn’t help that the books were so-so. So there’s nothing much to talk about. Good thing, I didn’t commit myself writing everything I read. Because this is not easy. But I like Spellbound a lot more than The Ivy. I hope the former have a sequel and the latter is just a stand alone. But alas, one can only dream.

Enough of my unnecessary ramblings, I have six books waiting in line and I decided to pick up the one I thought was easier to read. Or so I thought, but as you can see, I’m wrong. It was strange. Not horrible, thankfully it wasn’t. Though it’s mind boggling in an awful way.

Victoria’s family died in an accident. She’s now living with her auntie. On her former school she had accident with her schoolmates that almost took her life. The doctors said that it was miracle that she is alive; when she was brought to the hospital she loses a lot of blood. And that’s not only the strange thing, her blood is black.

She recovered from it and decided to transfer school. On her sixteenth birthday her aunt gave her memorabilia from her grandmother. She found out that she is a witch. A powerful one. Leto, her cat isn’t an ordinary one. It can talk to her, and even taught her some spells. Knowing these scares her; she doesn’t like it – this power.

On her new school she met Christian. There’s an immediate attraction between them and felt an eerily aura surrounding him. It turned out he is a vampire. And relationship between vampires and witches is prohibited. But not only that this ancient law is against them. Victoria’s mysterious black blood holds magnificent power and every supernatural creatures wants her – her power.

The book was ok. It has potential but once again the execution didn’t work for me. I can see the potential of the story. There’s even a unique twist to it. Sadly it didn’t mesh properly. All aspect is moving in different direction. The plot is moving to the left, the characters to the right. The romance upwards and everything else is going downwards. Can you see the picture? Sorry, it’s really hard to explain, everything is so scattered I don’t know where to concentrate. I was really zoned out when I read this. And this is an awful feeling but I just force myself to finish it. It’s a good thing in a way and at least I didn’t just drop it midway and pick another book. I wanted to finish it, to see how the story will wrap up. Well, good thing I did, the ending was decent.

I don’t like the characters that much. Christian obviously is another Edward Cullen clone but completely empty. I mean Vincent from Die for Me gave me the same vibes but he has a personality of his own and after a while the first impression wears off and you’ll just see him as he is – Vincent. Christian, well he’s empty. Yes, he’s good looking and he’s a vampire, sexy immortal. But his character is just a shell, hollow with no personality. I like good looking guys (books speaking) but I’m more on character with substance. He didn’t have it. Well, for me he didn’t. Same goes to Tori, she’s alone, confused, sad etc., but that said, I still didn’t feel anything. The characters didn’t connect with me. And the romance… I felt, nothing. No sparks, no giddy feeling… nothing. There are couples in some books that have subtle interaction but it makes me happy, like I’m emitting-thousands-endorphins happy. For example, Tod and Kaylee, I mean they only hold hands but I’m so, SO happy that my heart flew out of my rib cage. But here I was hoping to feel something. Not in the same level because they are my book OTP at least a quarter of that emotion. But well, as you can see they left me hollowed too. Both in their characters and supposed romance. And the fact that this romance was an obscure development for me, didn’t help. No foundation, it was love at first sight, with bits of argument throughout the book that you want to pull your hair off of your head.

I don’t know if I’m gonna read the second book, because obviously it left me unsatisfied. I am not curious anymore to what will happen to characters, or the story. So maybe not.