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At 55, human Ella Conlan thought her life was completely ordinary, maybe even a little dull, except for having RH-null blood. But she hadn't counted on being the center of a Blood War between two warring factions of vampires. Nor had she counted on being the mate of not one but two handsome vampires.

Now all those two have to do is - stop her from being killed, rescue her, convince her to donate her blood, and then finally get her to accept that she is destined to spend eternity with the two of them.

Easy?

A short insta-love novella.

www.evernightpublishing.com/blood-war-by-suzy-shearer
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08S47CP4G/

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Book cover - Blood War. Shows 2 men with a woman holding the face of one man about to kiss him. Quote from book: “Give me the woman, Jarek!” Slavik, voice filled with anger and malice, added, “I’ll fuckin’ kill you all!” Ella stretched her empty, shaking hand and picked up the wall telephone close to the door. “The police! I need the police.” “And what will you tell them, Ella? How do you think they’ll act when you say a man just walked through the closed door or another tore out the heart of someone who disintegrated into dust?” She looked devastated as she realized the truth of his words. “Anyway, they’re probably already on their way from all the noise Slavik’s making.” Ella stilled. They could see from the look on her face that she understood what would happen if she rang. She dropped the phone to the ground as she came to the realization no one could come to save her. .."

Content warning Selfie, vampire teeth

Content warning CW for teeth and selfie 😂

reviewed Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler

Octavia E. Butler: Fledgling (Paperback, 2007, Warner Books) 4 stars

Shori is a mystery. Found alone in the woods, she appears to be a little …

vampires, controversial relationships

4 stars

I think I would have preferred this to be part of a series. One of only two books about #vampires that I enjoyed, the other being #Echopraxia by #PeterWatts (part of the Firefall series) A young female and black #vampire (vampires grow up more slowly than humans, so she is just a child) finds herself alone and seriously injured with no memory of what happened. Fortunately vampires heal faster and more effectively than humans. When healthy but still no memory, she walks out, finds she is on a burned-out farm, and walks to a road where she flags down a car driven by a man. After she persuades him to take her home (taking blood from people makes them very persuadable), they both spend time to find other vampires to help them and to find out why so many local vampires have been killed. Along the way, she gathers more …

"Die geschicht dracole waide" from 1488. This early printed German version of the later legend derived from manuscript versions of the text that circulated in Europe firstly around 1463. In late fifteenth century, the story circulated both in printed and handwritten media within Europe. became a media event at this time.

Full scan off this (GW 12524. Ra 236) can be found here,
https://haab-digital.klassik-stiftung.de/viewer/image/815681208/2/LOG_0000/

A hand colored title page of an incunable with an image of a man wearing a hat. This is one of the first images of the later Dracula.
This is the first page of a manuscript version of the later Dracula account (Cod. Sang.806, St. Gallen Stiftsbibliothek)