Review: The Name of the Book says it all!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 26, 2013
Before I started reading this book, I thought it was going to be another fluffy vamp romance book - which is totally fine, I really was feeling that I needed a vamp-lovin' fix. WOW! I was totally off base there. The blurb really does not do this novel justice. Maybe it's just me, but I see "passion that erupts" and I think romance. Although this book has romantic qualities to it, I wouldn't consider it a romance. This is more of a fantasy tale of the evolving war between these two races, and ultimately good and evil.I loved the ancient Egyptian aspects to this book. I found it extremely interesting and loved how intricately placed it was throughout the entire story. There's a glossary in the beginning of the book if in case you need some further information if you get lost with the vastness of this world, but I personally found it unnecessary. There was plenty of explanation throughout the story.There's so many things about this book that I found completely fantastic. I think my favourite part of this book was actually not really a part of the story, rather than the construction of the novel. This is the first of a series, but there's just so much meat here! Honestly, I feel like I won the lottery with this book! Often when a book is split up into a series, it means that the books are fairly short. Kind of like there's really one book, but it was split up into installments. This is definitely a beefy book, nearly 400 pages. I found several places that would have been adequate to end a first installment, in order to create more books in the series, and theoretically, more income from the series, but this wasn't done. THANK YOU AUTHORS! I get so frustrated by this, and the best part is, even after sitting through these 400 pages, I still wanted more. The only thing that really made the book feel long to me is that I wasn't able to read it in a sitting!The cast in this book is extremely well developed and plentiful. Everyone seemed to have their own agenda, as well as their own growth of character. I'm boggled at how an author can so masterfully develop so many characters! It is extremely impressive and left me wanting to know more about all of them.The story itself is addicting. I found myself staying up way to late at night trying to read as much as I could. There were so many parts where I just could no longer figure out which was the "good" side vs which was the "bad" side. And with an ending like this novel has, I can't wait to read the second book to find out who is who!I definitely recommend this book to anyone that likes paranormal.Note:  I received this book for free for honest review.