Matters of the Blood (Blood Lines Series #1)

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All in all this was a great book. Its different, but in a good way. Got confusing at times, but managed to keep up. The storyline is amazing and has alot of twists that keep the pages turning. Id recommend it.

Good but

Not sure I'll read more of it. Can't say why exactly either yet because I cared enough to finish

This Series was great

Once I picked up this series, I couldn't stop reading. When I finished reading the last book I was sad because it finished. It is exciting, Romantic and suspense. Once you start you will get addicted to Keira Kelly.

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Lots of telling but no showing, disappointing

After reading the glowing reviews I had high hopes for this one but it is a real struggle to get through to the end. At first our heroine talks a good game about how 'she knows the dead and the dead know her', but you quickly find out that there is much telling rather than showing going on here, what a shame. She'll tell you she spent years as 'death's assistant' and how she is a 'predator' but by the time we catch up with her in this book she's not nearly so cool, again more telling rather than showing. I don't think the author can quite make up her mind what she wants her heroine to be and I'm not sure I even understand exactly what she is supposed to be. She'll say she doesn't know how to feel 'human' emotions and yet she spends the entire book doing exactly that - how about guilt, sadness, caring, anxiety, fear, lust, etc. Are those not human emotions?

The dialog is sometimes so simplistic that I feel as if I'm reading a YA novel, the conversation can shift abruptly and does not flow evenly. It was nice to come across a heroine in her thirties but as Kiera refers to herself as 'GDI' which is explained in parentheses as (God-Damned Independent)and uses phrases like 'bucko' and abso-freakin-lutely, it's hard to take her seriously. One other niggle - the fact that she refers to herself as a necromancer, has a couple of stare down contests with some local toughies and then uses phrases like 'bully for him', I wonder if the author has read one too many Anita Blake book and has let this influence her heroine because this is all vintage Anita and Anita does it better.

I gave the two stars because I thought her visions we very compelling, would have been nice if the rest of the book were written in that way. I also enjoyed the character of Adam and many of their interactions.

Take the time to read this one....

I picked this book up by chance & I saw Charlaine Harris did a blurd on this so I gave it a shot and MAN - O - MAN!!! This book really sucked me in! I could not get my house work done!!! This book was well written & just a heck of alot of fun! I am running out on my lunch to get the second book & really hope there are more!!!!

Fantastic

Few know the dead like Keira Kelly does the dead know Keira Kelly perhaps better than the living. Keira is part of a clan of paranormal people although she prefers to live outside amongst the normals. Currently she lives in Rio Seco, Texas if one can call residing there as living. She watches over her cousin Marty Nelson, who not only failed to inherit the family gift making him a pathetic purebred human outcast, but works as he puts it -in a dead-end job as a mortician.---------------- As Keira begins to learn what her powers are, someone is beheading and draining the blood of animals at The Wild Moon resort. Keira believes the culprit is inhuman. However, though she does some tremulous investigation, she is not committed until Marty is murdered with all his blood emptied from his corpse. As her former boyfriend Sheriff Carlton Larson investigates and makes it clear he wants her back, Keira visits Wild Moon only to find Adam Walker, someone she once desired, owns the place. Keira wonders could he have killed Marty because the mortician was learning the truth about the new resort not filled with many guests.----------- The cast makes this horror mystery into a one sitting read as fans will anticipate every chilling bump that sends the heroine into frighten mode. The story line is fast-paced with no one quite like they initially seem as most of the townsfolk are not purebred human. Readers will appreciate this superb paranormal whodunit with a touch of romance with plenty of interwoven subplots that will elate fans of various sub-genres, but the center holding this superb tale together is the likable Keira who makes the abnormal seem so normal.-------------- Harriet Klausner

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