Review: Turn The Air Conditioning On Because It's Getting Hot In Here!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 15, 2014
Blood Guilt is the first book in a new paranormal romance/adventure series and the continuation of the Awakened by Blood trilogy,  The book can be read as a standalone.Mihaela became a ruthless vampire Hunter for a good reason, a vampire killed her parents and little sister when she was a child and she was raised within the secret league of Hunters who tracked down and killed any and all vampires to protect an unsuspecting humanity.  However, things are changing, an Ancient vampire, Saloman, has come forward and is starting a movement of vampires and Hunters working together to coexist peacefully with the eventual goal to bring vampires into public awareness. Mihaela has already been in one battle where Hunters fought alongside vampires, her life was even saved by a vampire.  Needless to say this is really rocking Mihaela’s sense of order and she takes a much needed vacation in Edinburgh. Of course, Mihaela finds herself rescuing Robbie, a child from a group of vampires who are attempting to kidnap him and returns him to his foster parents. She also finds herself saving another vampire from the group.  Mihaela is quite the multitasker.  Mihaela is rather nonplused to discover the vampire she saves is the one who saved her life earlier. Small world. He is Maximilian, a blindingly gorgeous and sexy Renaissance era vampire.  Which works out well as Mihaela is quite stunning herself.  And two people who look that good have got to have some serious sexual chemistry going on.  Which they do.  They also have matching sets of emotional baggage, Mihaela’s traumatic family loss and Max’s extreme torment and guilt for betraying his sire and best buddy Saloman (who’s over it by the way).  Both are wary of emotional connections but they really LIKE each other. Their adventure begins when Robbie is successfully snatched this time by a vampire, Gavril, who Mihaela recognizes as the same vampire who massacred her family.  (Really small world.) Separately and together they attempt to rescue Robbie and stop Gavril and his crew of bad vampires from using him to take over the world. They also manage to get in some crazy wild sex a few times as well.  Max is obviously also a multitasker.  The question may be less about will they be able to save the world and more about can they overcome their emotional angst and be the happy Vampire/Hunter couple they are truly meant to be.Snark aside, I loved this book and M&M; were great characters with genuine concerns.  How do you go from hating - and career killing the beings that killed your family and left you emotionally stunted to accepting your soul mate is one of them? It is a tricky question.  And for Max - how do you just let centuries of isolation, guilt and self loathing go and let yourself get close to another person (no matter how much they turn you on)?  Meanwhile there is an intricate and quite interesting storyline going on with Robbie and the reason behind the death of Mihaela’s late parents (such a small world) all playing a part in Gavril’s attempt to destroy the bulk of humanity. Blood Guilt reads as a one steamy paranormal romance and still works as an exciting adventure with bad vampires fighting good vampires and Hunters being forced to decide if they can go against all their training (the only good vampire is a staked vampire kind of thing) and work along side their former enemies.  This is a fun read and the action (and I mean ALL the action) never stops.  The best part is that this is the first book in a series in this world so you can keep playing in that world even when this book ends.I received this book in exchange for a fair and honest review.