Review: getting better and better
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 7, 2014
Blood Descent. (Book Three of the Blood Hunters Series). Marie TreanorReview from Jeannie Zelos Book reviews.Well, this series keeps getting better and better for me. Each book is complete, and yet builds upon the stories and actions that have gone before in previous ones. This time we see more of Konrad, the Hunter who's gone renegade. He's determined Elizabeth’s baby can't survive, and he's going to ensure it doesn't. He wants to kill Saloman too but knows he's not strong enough to do so alone. He's in Britain searching for the instrument Istvan made, stolen by the vampires. It magnifies power, and Konrad is assembling others to join together to harm the child. He finds a young vampire, Maggie, who he needs to take him to the vampire holding the instrument. It comes hard for Konrad to work with a Vampire – his past with them when he was a teen is very traumatic, he was strapped down and fed off by a group before Istvan rescued him. Its left him with a bitter hatred and he's convinced all vampires are just bloodthirsty killers. So why then is he so sexually attracted to Maggie? At first he blames it on the well known sexual attraction given off by older vampires, but she's still young. Maggie too is attracted to Konrad, but knows that she needs to keep her guard up as he'll kill her the moment she's no longer useful. Its an unhappy alliance between them, with Konrad needing Maggie, and Maggie having her own reasons for being with him. She's also determined to break through his mistrust and show him what she's really like.Its a journey across countries, with human/vampire battles for possession of the instrument. Everyone wants it but for different reasons. Saloman is plotting constantly with others to create differing, fluid plans for Elizabeth’s safety, and that of his child. He's trying to cover every possible angle of danger.  He decides to use the birth, and the recent interest in him and his family by a reputable journalist, to break the news of vampires to the public. Of course those renegade hunters like Konrad, and some other vampires are horrified by this and fighting desperately to find any means to prevent it. Elizabeth wants her family safe, but still hopes for Konrad to be convinced of the wrongness of his actions, and that the Alliance is the way forward. Maggie becomes a very important person in the final parts as everything pulls together, and we see  another example of just how adept Saloman is at planning and making things happen.Once again there's hot, sensual, erotic sex, alongside a fast paced but easy to follow action story. Another terrific read, and I’m impatient to see where they go next. A great series, with each story being complete – no cliffhangers Yay :)  It's well priced too at 2.01 for 243 pages.Stars: fiveARC supplied by Netgalley