Shadow Kissed (Marked by Blood, #1)
By: Rebecca L. Garcia
My Recommendation: 👍👍👍👍👍 - (Out of 5 👍)
Olivia has lived a pretty sheltered life. As a sorceress, she is pretty rare but her powers have never held much strength. It has been less than a month since her boyfriend allegedly committed suicide, Vampires are attacking the kingdom she lives in, and her mother who is also a sorceress has left with the other members of the guild to defend their home. Unfortunately, her mother winds up captured.
When the guard left protecting Olivia gets carried off by one the Vampires she is left alone and defenseless. Before she can escape, a Vampire named Sebastian takes her captive and back to his home in the City of Nightmares. Sebastian swears Olivia is not his prisoner and he and his friends are only trying to protect her from Nightshade, a group of Vampires who have been hunting Olivia for nefarious reasons.
Olivia has slowly come to realize that her entire life people have kept secrets from her; her mother would never talk about her father and the rest of the guild would get cagey when asked questions. Slowly, Sebastian reveals what those secrets are but he has been keeping a few secrets of his own, like the real reason he 'kidnapped' Olivia. Can Olivia trust Sebastian enough to help save her mother and friend? Olivia must learn to trust in order to save herself, her mother, her friends, and Sebastian.
Rebecca Garcia has written a wonderfully well illustrated world. Olivia is a completely likable character. It is easy to recognize she has low self-esteem when it comes to her magical abilities and how those doubts about herself came to be in her young nineteen years. Sebastian and his friends are lovable 'villains'. They all have had difficult pasts that they are attempting to overcome. There are moments you want to hate Sebastian and yell at him to get his head on straight but he is flawed and still learning to cope with the painful conditions of his transition from Human to Vampire.
I loved Shadow Kissed. It was one of those books that sucked you in and wouldn't let you escape; I read it in one afternoon as I didn't want to put it down. I am excited to read the next installment in the Marked by Blood series.
Shadow Kissed by Rebecca L. Garcia will be available April 15,2022
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