Kiss of the Vampire
Miranda Thorn
Paranormal Romance
A vampire hunter with failing magic. A thousand-year-old vampire stalking her library. One forbidden obsession neither will survive.
I want out. Away from the blood, the fear, and the pain of being a vampire hunter. That’s why I’m in college. I want a normal life. I’m three weeks from finishing my summer semester when a vampire walks into my life and ruins everything.
Liam is ancient, lethal, and researching demonology in my library. If whatever he’s summoning gets loose, the body count will be remembered for decades. I can’t scare him off—he’s too old and too strong—which means I’m stuck keeping tabs on him while he brings me gourmet donuts and props his bare feet on my chair like we’re friends. When he pins me against the shelves and the lights explode overhead, I realize two things: my magic isn’t as dead as I thought, and neither is whatever’s burning between us.
But Liam isn’t just any vampire. He’s one of three brothers my ancestors tried to massacre—and failed. His family has a vendetta. Mine has a kill order. And the witch hunters circling my city don’t care that I’m falling for the enemy; they just want us both dead.
With dark forces rising, my mother’s betrayals unraveling, and an ancient conspiracy dragging us into the crossfire, Liam offers me something I’ve never had: a way out. All it costs is everything I was raised to believe.
Uncaged Review: This is a prequel to the main series and it’s a longer novella, bringing the reader into this world. Grace is a witch and college student and comes from a long line of vampire hunters, although she herself didn’t get as much magic in her blood as her sisters and really just wants a normal life away from the family business. When she sees Liam in the library, she knows she must kill him, but she expected Liam to save her life from witch hunters. Her world and everything she’s been taught her whole life about vampires will be turned upside down.
Liam is a 700 yr old vampire, along with his brothers, are a group that has been wrongfully blamed for deaths they didn’t commit, and Grace’s ancestors couldn’t bring them down.
Overall, I like the story, but it’s definitely lacking in the character development and I realize this is a prequel, but Grace’s emotions were a bit too surreal in her quick attachment to Liam. This pairing could easily have been a full novel. Even having read this one, and been a bit underwhelmed with it, I do have the first main book on my Kindle and am planning on going forward, as I like the premise of it and want to see how the story unfolds with Liam’s brothers.
Reviewed by Cyrene
3 Stars
