Series: The Shadow Order # 1
Format: Kindle, 222 pages
Release Date: May 29, 2022
Publisher: Leigh Kelsey
Source: Kindle Freebie
Genre: Urban Fantasy RomanceSave London from an impending vampire apocalypse? Sorry, my week is all booked.
That’s a book pun—I’m a librarian. Specifically, the arcane archivist at the Witching Library in the heart of London.
Humans
don’t know about the secret magical world of witches, shifters, and
seers like me. So when vampires steal a dark codex from the library, no
police come to save me when I’m caught in the crossfire. I’m left in a
pool of blood, with a searing scratch on my arm.
When
I transition and lose control of my new thirst, a dangerously
powerful—and hot as hell—vampire pulls me back from the edge. Lazarus
has a proposition for me: if I help him track down my sire before he can
expose the supernatural world, he'll teach me to control my hunger.
If we fail, the council’s terrifying Shadowhounds will execute my monstrous sire and all his progeny. Including me.
I miss my library already.
Kristen Kova's Vampire Librarian is the first installment in the authors The Shadow Order series. 27-year-old Karina Dobrev works at the Witching Library as an arcane archivist. She has been aware that there have been attacks in London involving all three major players in town with the victims left alive. To make matters worse, Karina is a seer who sees her client murdered for a book called Codex Fiends which is the most powerful book in the Archive. It contains deadly rituals, fatal spells, and an encyclopedia of demons. If it falls into the wrong hands, trouble will follow.
Which it does. Karina finds herself at the mercy of a vampire who compels her to give him the Codex and then wipes her memories from what happened to her. However, in this world, if a vampire scratches you, there is a really good chance that you will become a vampire. In this world, the Shadow order members include magi, reapers, necromancers, and demons. Up until she was attacked, Karina was a seer and a member of the Light Order. Along comes Lazarus Kaine, aka the dangerous hero of the story. Kaine needs Karina's help to find out who attacked her.
If Lazarus doesn't find the vampire who attacked Karina and turned her, then Karina's life will be forfeited to the Shadow hounds who hunt down supernatural criminals. He also decides that she can be useful to him to lead him to Karina's sire who he wants destroyed. It also appears that the vampire who attacked Karina, is the one who is also leaving bodies behind alive. Victims who have been drained of their magic. So, why is Karina alive? Except for being an arcane archivist, what is so special about her that a powerful vampire wants her help into releasing a demon on London?
It should not surprise anyone that this book ends on a cliffhanger. It also should not surprise you to find out that this will end up being a slow burn romance between Karina and Lazarus. And, it is Keith, the cat, who steals the show whenever he with appears with Lazarus in the story. Karina doesn't possess of any special fighting skills or amazing bravery, but she does know nine different languages, and she finds that that is one of the reasons the villain of the story needs her so badly.
Plus, there is yet another dangerous villain just waiting to take his place and has every expectation that he will make Karina his. Karina tends to make lots of tactical errors in this book like thinking she can control her thirst for blood, and then wondering why Lazarus wants to keep her locked up until she can. One of the things I've noticed recently, is that a bunch of books that were given out as freebies tend to be shorter than normal books.
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