Series: The Blood Journals (bk. 2)
Genera: Paranormal Romance
Subjects: Magic, supernatural, love, Kansas
Age/Grade Level: Teen
Length: 419 pgs.
HC/PB: Hardcover
List Price: $17.99
Publisher: Random House
Summary/ product description: “Paranormal romance fans
who are looking to up the ante will be drawn to this tale of horror, fantasy,
and romance. For Mab Prowd, the practice of blood magic is as natural as
breathing. It's all she's ever known. Growing up on an isolated farm in Kansas
with other practitioners may have kept her from making friends her own age, but
it has also given her a sense of purpose—she's connected to the land and
protective of the magic. And she is able to practice it proudly and happily out
in the open with only the crows as her companions. Mab will do anything to keep
the ancient practice alive and guard its secrets. But one morning while she is
working out a particularly tricky spell she encounters Will, a local boy who is
trying to exorcise some mundane personal demons. He experiences Mab's magic in
a way his mind cannot comprehend and is all too happy to end their chance
meeting. But secrets that were kept from Mab by the earlier generations of
blood magicians have come home to roost. And she and Will are drawn back
together, time again by this dangerous force looking to break free from the
earth and reclaim its own dark power.”
My Rating: êêêê
My Review: The story takes place 5 years after the
events of Blood Magic, the first book. There was some short story called Crow
Memory, about Reese turning into crows, that I didn’t get to read. I felt a
little lost at the beginning because the new characters. I wanted to figure out
who they were, who they were related to. It’s very strange that Silla and Nick are already graduating college, so is
this in the future, or was Blood Magic in the past (like 2008) while this is
the present (2012)? Despite that, I enjoyed the book. Will’s an awesome
character. I love his relationship with his dogs, Valkyrie and Havoc. Funny
names for two female German Shepherds. Mab’s a bit weird because of how she was
raised, but all the magic was very cool. I think it’s dumb that Ben want to
push Will to be a Marine. Why Marine? Is there anyone out there with a death
wish. Why not navy or air force. Less risk involved. It just seems very
unrealistic that a brother would push his younger brother to be a Marine after
all the death he’s seen and people he’s killed. Usually Marines come out of war
with PTSD, or very bad nightmares, at least. They wouldn’t want that for their
siblings.
What I loved about this story were the descriptions.
It was very visual, show and not tell. The mysterious magic and scenery of the
Kansas prairie and farmland. I love books that have magical rural setting. Blood
Magic was more suburban (even though Will lives in a suburb of Kansas City).
This book reminded me of Texas Gothic by Rosemary
Clement-Moore, and Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. So if
you liked those magic witch/magic user books, then you might like this one.
Blood magic is a realistic kind of magic. For all we know it could be real, and
the author might know something most of us don’t.
Cover Art Review: So much more fitting that the old
cover! Very occult/American Gothic. I
like how it looks like it was carved into the wood, and filled with blood.
~Haley G
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