However, although I enjoyed the good versus evil battle that was ongoing throughout, I would have liked just a little more romance between Logan and Isabeau! Their attraction is so palpable that I would have liked to have seen more of it, although the fact that they don't instantly act on their attraction does mean that the tension between them fairly smoulders!īook 3 in the series, 'Out For Blood' has just been published and focuses on Quinn Drake. There's an enormous amount of action going on in the book which means that the pace of the story fairly whips along. I also loved her faithful Hound Charlemagne. A fair number of chapters are also dedicated to flashbacks of Isabeau's former life before she became a vampire and I thought these's were great, because they gave the reader a lot of insight into her strength of character and strong will. She shares the narrative with Logan, although I felt that he could have been a little more developed. I loved Isabeau - she was a really fiesty and strong female character and I particularly enjoyed the chapters that were told from her perspective. She becomes entangled in the affairs of the Drake family and in particular that of Logan Drake, but she also has to face being confronted with the vampire who made her and then left her for dead.

She was changed back in the days of the French Revolution and buried underground for several centuries before she was revived and became a Hound 'Princess'. Croix is a vampire but not just any vampire. I found that there were quite a bewildering array of names, groups and families mentioned at the start, which I had to concentrate on so I didn't get them all mixed-up. I think this could easily be read as a stand-alone story, although it probably would have helped to have known some of the additional background information. I haven't read the first book, 'My Love Lies Bleeding', but it didn't take me long to pick up the thread of the story or get acquainted with the characters. This is book 2 in the Drake Chronicles series by Alyxandra Harvey.

Out for Blood by Alyxandra Harvey