Format: Kindle, 225 pages
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Publisher: Annulus Publishing
Source: Kindle
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Do vampires go to heaven? I'm Tara Lee. I'm a good Christian girl, serving the Lord with all my heart, soul, mind, and strength, but that becomes difficult when an actual vampire attacks me in church. Though I survive the attack thanks to help from a mysterious yet handsome vampire spy, my life will never be the same. Now I'm a half-vampire, which means I have super strength and a strong craving for human blood. It also puts the ultimate fate of my soul into question, because I'm pretty sure the Bible doesn't say if half-vampires go to heaven or not. Even all of that would be manageable, though, if the most powerful Vampire Lord alive wasn't hunting me down. Now I need to master my new vampire powers while avoiding his minions, but that's easier said than done when I barely understand my abilities. But I must master my powers, otherwise I'll lose my freedom-and my soul-forever.
The Vampire Sword, by Timothy Cerepaka, is the first installment in the authors Vampire Sorceress series. 24-year-old Tara Lee knows nothing about the paranormal world. She doesn't know that her father Richard Lee, now a Baptist pastor, was once a powerful Hunter and sorcerer who left the business after Tara was born. Now, Tara, who immersed herself into the Christian faith as a teenager, is about to get a rude awakening after she is attacked by a vampire during her father's sermon.
Even though Lucius Red, who is a vampire spy working for the Order of Vampires, arrives in time to save her from being killed, Kara's life is forever changed. Lucius learned late that a certain vampire Lord intends to attack someone of magical descent so he can destroy the Order. He didn't think that it would be the daughter of the former Hunter. To make matters worse, thanks to her father being a sorcerer, she is now a half vampire, and half sorceress who should not exist.
In fact, half-vampires are considered by both the Vampire
Council and the Sorcerer's Parliament as unnatural abominations that
need to be killed on sight. What's even more twisted is that vampires and sorcerers are enemies, and a vampire tends to not attack or turn a sorcerer for fear of creating something that isn't supposed to exist. It seems as though Tara is being pulled into a life as a halfie thanks to yet another powerful vampire who thinks that she may be key to a Blood Red Sword that no vampire can hold.
A sword that seems to be calling out to Tara as it may be her destiny to wield the powerful sword. This story isn't overly religious even though the main character has followed in the Christian way for over 10 years. The story also isn't overly complicated either. Tara worries that her soul by be irredeemable now that she's a halfie but she has other problems to deal with. Problems like staying away from a powerful vampire who wants to use her to wield the so called Vampire Sword. Problems like who is going to try to kill her next; vampires, or sorcerers because of who she is. And, to top it off, it appears that yet another prophecy may be in Tara's future.
*Note* I received this book via an author giveaway over the holiday season. I received zero compensation for reading and writing this review. All thoughts I mine, and mine alone. I have decided that I am going to use January to read some off the cusp authors I have been hearing about, and short stories that I can read in a few hours, rather than 3 days like the book I read after this one. If the next two books become available for a reasonable price, I may continue with this series. Otherwise, let's keep rolling on!
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