Bloodfairies have a bad rap as opportunists who sell their
essence to the highest bidding vampire, so Ember is
reluctant to do so, even when her bad-boy boyfriend,
Jasper, suggests it as a distraction to a bit of thievery.
Ember lives life on the edge, but everyone else who resides
there has got an angle. Jasper and his cronies are
constantly aiming for the top, and none plays the angles
better than his boss, Diamond, a glassfairy who sees Ember
as a key piece in his careful doublecross against his own
bosses. As Ember and Diamond try to play each other, they
realize that more than their reputations and lives are on
the line, their hearts are as well.
BLOOD CURSED does a
great job creating a different reality. Some readers will
be charmed and transformed by the constant adjective
melding throughout the book through terms such
as "dampbright" and "hellpurple" at least once a page,
while other readers may find them distracting. The same can
be said for Diamond's particular lingo, a style even Ember
notes as unusual---he constantly blurs words together to
create new ones such as "pauseify"-so that he uses multiple
syllables when one or two would do--the verbal tricks do a
great job of creating a new world and adding description,
but some readers may have difficulty with them. The
characters are well developed and interesting because no
one is what he or she seems, so for a fast-paced urban
fantasy, BLOOD CURSED is the book to read.
To a vampire, nothing is sweeter than bloodfairy essence—and
Ember is the most sought-after fairy on the underworld
circuit. Selling her blood to the highest bidder—and robbing
her clients in the process—Ember has unwittingly become a
target of dark and dangerous forces. Her enemies are
everywhere. And if she hopes to survive, she needs protection…
Diamond is a glassfairy who, for better or worse, knows his
way around the vampire underworld. Smooth as silk and
tougher than trolls, Diamond is Ember’s only chance to keep
her magical blood inside her body, where it belongs. But he
also poses a threat to Ember, a strange kind of danger she’s
never experienced before: She’s falling in love with him…
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