Review: the start of a great series!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 17, 2013
Kenric is a 300 year old vampire who lives for the day he is finally able to kill his sire Marguerite. Since she changed him by force and killed his only love, all Kenric has lived for is to seek his revenge. With the help of friends he started the Enclave, a group of vampires who keep humans safe from DEAD vampires(vampires who are addicted to killing humans) and keep the secret of vampires hidden from humans. One night while he's fighting DEAD vampires Kenric is hurt in an ambush and after loosing to much blood passes out. Emily is finally trying to get her life in order she left her abusive ex and is moving past the abuse from her father and her mothers death. On the way to the hospital Emily works at as a nurse she see's a man bleeding and stops to help. After her long shift at work Emily decides to check in on John Doe and gets the surprise of her life when he awakens and drinks from her.When Emily passes out Kenric decides to take her home to make sure she is ok and to protect his existence, and when she wakes erase his visit from the hospital, what Kenric and Emily neither expect is to find the other so attractive something neither of them expected or want. When Emily recovers she agrees to help Kenric collect everything that remains from his hospital stay. The more time kenric and Emily spend together the harder it is to say good bye, but Kenric has a good reason not to get involved. Marguerite has found a way to get into his dreams. When Marguerite see's Emily in his dream Kenric knows that she will be coming after Emily he also knows that Marguerite has found something to make her stronger and she won't stop till he agrees to be her mate. Kenric knows that the only safe place for Emily is with him he is quickly growing to care about her more than any one before but Emily is stubborn and wants to live her life her way.With Marguerite getting closer and closer Kenric will do anything to keep Emily safe, and the longer they spend together the more he knows he wants to claim her as his. This was a really good start to a new series it was really well written and reminded me of the start of other great paranormal romance series. The world building was great and very extensive, It's very obvious Jessica Lee spent a lot of time planning this series and it really paid off in a big way. The characters, both main and side are very well developed and the set up for not only book two but the entire series was great. It's clear to me that this is a new series to keep an eye on. My only problem with this book is that the heroine has a few TSTL moments I wanted to reach into my kindle and strangle her for the stupid choices she makes and for her twisted logic. Emily does grow from this and realizes herself how stupid she is which I was very happy about.The hero Kenric was fantastic he was strong possessive and a great leader. I loved how Jessica showed the villain and created another in this story we get to see his fall from good to bad. I'm really excited to see who book two is about though I am pretty sure I know who. I was really impressed with this book and this author. All I read for years was PR and then after finding so many books that weren't great or even good I moved to other genre's. Jessica Lee is what's right and represents all that I loved in Paranormal Romance, she made me feel like I used to when I loved PR, she made me excited again and for that I am so grateful. This is an author I will be following to see what comes next.**thank you NetGallery for this book fro my honest review**