ARC Review: Bonded by Blood {Sweetblood, #1} by Laurie London

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deep within the forests of the Pacific Northwest, two vampire coalitions battle for supremacy—Guardian enforcers who safeguard humanity and Darkblood rogues who kill like their ancient ancestors.
Now, Guardian team leader Dominic Serrano will be forced to choose between the vengeance he craves and the woman he can’t live without...
Movie location scout Mackenzie Foster-Shaw has always known that she’s cursed to die young. No one can protect her from the evil that has stalked her family for generations—vampires who crave her rare blood type. Until one afternoon in a wooded cemetery, she encounters an impossibly sexy stranger, a man she must trust with her life.
For Dominic, a man haunted by loss, Mackenzie satisfies a primal hunger that torments him—and the bond they share goes beyond heat, beyond love. She alone can supply the strength he needs to claim his revenge. But in doing so, he could destroy her...

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• Publisher: HQN
• Release Date: February 1st, 2011  
• My Copy: Received from NetGalley.
• Pages: 384
• Series: Sweetblood Series 
• Genre: Paranormal Romance 
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I was pleasantly surprised by Bonded by Blood, I wasn’t blown away or anything, but this was a very nice Paranormal Romance read and the beginning of a series that has a lot of potential.

Dominic is a vampire bent on revenging the death of his parents and the betrayal of his own brother. He has been hunting the leader of the Darkbloods for over a century and now he is closer than ever.

Mackenzie is an artist and movie location scout photographer. While working she stumbles into a wounded and crazed Dominic, who drinks from her Sweetblood and wipes her mind so she won’t remember anything.

However Dominic can’t just let her go, he feels the need to protect her from the Darkbloods, Vampires addicted to Sweetblood and that want to only feed directly from humans. While protecting her he realizes that he and Kenzie are actually Bounded and that he even though he wants her for himself, he doesn’t want to chance killing her, since her blood calls to him more than any other.

Ok, so I’ll just put it out there… Vampire is drawn by the smell of the woman’s blood and then wants to leave her because he is too dangerous for her, does this remind you of anyone? I immediately thought of Twilight, oh yes I am going there. The relationship between Dominic and Mackenzie for me was basically one between an older Bella and Edward. It all felt like a mix of Twilight, BDB and Midnight Breed, in a good way.

I loved the world built for this series and I am looking forward to more. I totally guessed a big mystery regarding this novel and I’m very glad that the object of this mystery will be the hero of the second book. Bonded by Blood had a lot  of Hot Smex, but it was also full of action, I actually read this one in almost one sitting, but definitely in one day.

Bonded by Blood is not trying to invent the PNR wheel, but it does have all the elements I love so much in this genre. If you enjoy Paranormal Romance, I definitely recommend you check this new series out!

 

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