Review: Original
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 4, 2014
K A Salidas' Dissension is a vampire novel unlike any other I have read; it has a dark dystopian theme in which vampires are 'owned' by humans but kept imprisoned in the harshest of conditions, only to be sent into a Gladiator arena to fight, usually to the death, for entertainment.Mira is the Alpha female of this story, she has the winning record for battles and is the Gladiator all others want to beat. Yet Mira is a troublemaker, who chooses to direct her anger at the abuse of her species at any human, either with her fists or her words; she has a plan to escape the prison and the Arena.K A Salidas' style of storytelling is unaffected and candid, which was appropriate to Dissension's corrupt and brutal world; Mira's life is one devoid of emotion and passion, because she cannot afford to feel inside her bubble, and the author communicates this excellently.I really look forward to the next in this series and know that K A Salidas will find a way to surprise her readers.I received this as a complimentary review copy, but this has had no influence on my opinion.