Review: By far the best vampire/werewolf (and hybrids too) book I've read in a very, very long time!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 27, 2014
This book is definitely not about sparkly vampires and cuddly werewolves.  There's a war going on!  They are enemies who learned to coexist with one another until one side got greedy; then it was game on!  Not only do the sides fight a centuries long war with one another, somewhere along the way the bloodlines were crossed and now they have a new enemy!  Vampires, Werewolves and Cross-Breeds... OH MY!  This fact alone is enough to warrant 5 stars from me.... but there are so many wonderful things about this book.Bloodlines is more like a collection of short stories put together to give us a glimpse of some of the major players from each faction.  Every chapter introduces us to another character from one of the three sides and is set in a different time period (the book starts in 1287 A.D. and ends in modern times).  It's almost as though you could read chapter three without having read chapter one and not miss a thing.  The last couple of chapters bring together some of those characters we met earlier on and show us how their stories are going to form together.  But, even though we are only given a small snapshot of that time period and that character, the development and description is amazing!  The reader is transported right into the heart of the story; it's almost like you have a rooftop seat to all the action going on around you.  I was really blown away with the author's ability to do that in such a short amount of time.  His writing style is clean and to the point; there's not a lot of fluff and filler.  The reader is given all the details they need to understand the situation and they are given this information with great detail.This is by far the best vampire/werewolf (and hybrids too) book I've read in a very, very long time!  I am really looking forward to, pardon the cliché, sinking my teeth into the second book to see how this war progresses and how the characters that we met during the journey are brought together.