I've read a couple of other series by Laura Bickle (Wildlands, and The Hallowed Ones)
and really enjoyed them. I think she's really good at writing stories
that straddle the line between dark fantasy and horror, so I decided to
give this new one a try. I wasn't as enamored with it as I was her other
books, but it wasn't bad. I like the main character a lot and also the warlock Sorin. What I didn't like so much were the dream
sequences/flashbacks of the Morrigan. It's not that there was really
anything wrong with them, I just wasn't as interested in the Morrigan's
past as I was in Garnet. It was however, essential to have these parts
in the book so that we know how everything in the book came to be. I will add here that I liked the flashbacks to the Morrigan a lot more in the third book.
Some
things I especially liked were the trauma surgery scenes, and the way
Garnet's friends have her back. I would have loved even more of those things in the trilogy. I
also liked the crows and the way they would leave Garnet little gifts
and also protect and warn her. I also really liked how our main character here had a lot less of the Morrigan in her than previous incarnations, and was for the most part her own person.
Overall this trilogy was pretty good, but not a favorite.
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Category: Adult
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Content: Strong Language
As
a trauma surgeon, Garnet Conners has seen more than her fair share of
blood. But when one of her patients walks off the operating table and
disappears into the night, she finds herself caught in a war between
legions of vampires and witches in her city.
Garnet has dreamed
of bloody battlefields for years – and a mysterious lover who controls a
kingdom. In her waking life, Garnet is shocked to meet that man in a
club. Merrel knows her from another life, a life in which she was the
legendary Morrigan, goddess of death and war.
Garnet has the blood of the legendary Morrigan – and legions of vampires and witches will go to war to possess that power.
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Category: Adult
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Content: Strong Language
Becoming a vampire was the worst thing to ever happen to Garnet Conners. But does she have to become a monster, too?
Garnet
had a beautiful life…and it was stolen from her when she was turned
into a vampire against her will. Once a successful trauma surgeon with
good friends, she now finds herself hiding out in the basement of a
coven house governed by hostile witches. Struggling with her vampiric
urges, she despairs of ever returning to her former life.
Garnet’s
discovered that she’s an incarnation of the legendary Morrigan. She
dreams in blood, of the Morrigan’s other bloodthirsty incarnations over
the centuries. Garnet’s dreams reveal her previous existence as Erzebet
Bathory, and Garnet fears becoming that monster once again.
With
the help of the witches, she attempts to learn to use her magical powers
to control her vampiric nature…an experiment that ends in disaster.
When her sister and friend go missing, Garnet knows she’s being hunted
by vampires who will stop at nothing to bring her back into their fold.
Merrel,
the vampire who turned her, offers her a bargain. He will return the
abducted women, but Garnet must agree to spend three nights with him,
training as a vampire. Garnet reluctantly accepts, but she fears giving
in to her vampire nature and becoming the killer of the previous
lifetime she’s reliving in her dreams.
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Category: Adult
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Content: Strong Language
To end the war between
vampires and witches, Garnet must battle the queen of the vampires, a
woman who the Morrigan narrowly escaped in the skies of World War II.
Garnet
Conners, incarnation of the legendary Morrigan, has pieced her life
back together. After being turned into a vampire against her will, she’s
quit her career as a surgeon and taken a job on the night shift at the
city morgue. To her dismay, victims of vampires are piling up at the
morgue…including the body of the vampire who turned her, Merrel.
Merrel’s
faked his own death to set into motion a plot to wrest control of
Riverpointe’s vampires from their queen, Varya. If Garnet helps him, he
promises to move the vampires away from Riverpointe entirely, leaving
Garnet and her lover, the warlock Sorin, in peace.
But Garnet’s
haunted by dreams of her prior incarnations as Alix, one of the pilots
of the fabled Night Witches in World War II. Alix fought Varya during
the war… and was nearly destroyed by her. Varya held a magical artifact
hostage, the magical sword Durendal, which she still uses to control the
Asra hive of vampires.
When the vampires burn down the witches’
coven house, Garnet and her allies must locate the vampires’ stronghold.
She, Merrel, and the surviving witches must rip Durendal away from
Varya…or the city and all its supernatural inhabitants will be devoured
in flames.
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