Review: Thirst by Claire Farrell

 Thirst
(Ava Delany #1)
by Claire Farrell
Edition: Ebook (154 Pages)
Published: November 28th 2010
Source: Amazon
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Ava Delaney calls herself a hybrid - a living, breathing human who happens to have vampire poison running through her veins. The only thing greater than her thirst for human blood is her capacity for guilt. She does her best to avoid the human world, for everyone's sake.

When Ava accidentally enslaves a human while saving him from a vampire, she realises she has to look for help setting him free. Despite her misgivings, she expands her world but finds herself dragged into a possible vampire civil war. With the help of some new friends with ambiguous loyalties, she tries to find a way to keep her human, and herself, alive.
 

Review:

 (Although I got to read this book for free my review is still 100% honest.)

I'm actually surprised I enjoyed this book as much I did. The storyline of this book is actually what intrigued me to read it. I'm glad that I finally did, because I would say it was worth it. Its a really quick and fun read.

The main character is Ava shes a human but has vampire poison running through her veins. Now she didn't choose to be this way she born like this. She avoids humans and vampires all together as much as she can. I found her character to be amusing with how she doesn't understand a lot about herself let alone other vampires. She only knows what she has read from books, which I guess is what we all really only know. I really like the fact that within this book she really was having problems with feeding and how it is morally wrong.

Well Ava accidentally thralls a guy to obey her every command. Carl I think was almost robot like within most of this book. He of course was just obeying everything Ava told him. I feel like his character is mostly just there. Yea he helps Ava when things go wrong but other than that I find him rather boring. Even when he eventually gets released from her hes still rather boring.

Then Ava goes to Peter for help, which I found their meeting to be very amusing. Peter hates vampires hes been hunting them for the last eight years. So I'm sure you could imagine what happens when Ava comes knocking at his door for help. Peters character was pretty important to the whole storyline. I think he really helped the conversations within this book to be more interesting. I enjoyed his character more than I would say for Carl.

Within this world of feuding vampire clans, theirs Ava just trying to get by. Of course she doesn't go unnoticed by these clans. So that is really were the plot really thickens. I think that this world was pretty well written it wasn't super descriptive or anything but you got the jest of it. I would say that if you wanted to give this book a try, don't take it to seriously and go into it with an open mind. I thought this was a fun quick read that would be for someone in a reading slump.




I gave this book 3 out of 5 bats.

Review: Demon Deathchase by Hideyuki Kikuchi

Demon Deathchase
(Vampire Hunter D #3)
by Hideyuki Kikuchi
Format: Paperback (211 pages)
Published: January 18th 2006 by Digital Manga Publishing / Dark Horse
Source: Bought Myself
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 The third volume of the popular Japanese series comes to America in Vampire Hunter D: Demon Deathchase. The vampire hunter known only as D has been hired by a wealthy, dying man to find his daughter, who was kidnapped by the powerful vampire Lord Meierlink. Though humans speak well of Meierlink, the price on his head is too high for D to ignore and he sets out to save her before she can be turned into an undead creature of the night. In the nightmare world of 12090 A.D., finding Meierlink before he reaches the spaceport in the Clayborn States and gets off the planet will be hard enough, but D has more than just Meierlink to worry about. The dying man is taking no chances, and has also enlisted the Marcus family, a renegade clan of four brothers and a sister who don't care who they kill as long as they get paid. Beautiful illustrations by Yoshitaka Amano complement the post-apocalyptic plot, filled with chilling twists. Co-Published with Digital Manga Publishing.

Review:

This book is told in multiple perspectives. To name a few were D, the Marcus Clan, Mayerling, and the girl that was with Mayerling. That was only a few. I think reading it from so many perspectives really helps you imagine this story of adventure better.This story is very action / adventure / fantasy with tons of description. All of these books are very strong with world and character building.

The setting for this book is on the frontier. Where its often to dangerous for anyone to travel and you never know what creatures you'll run into day or night.

This story has to do with of course Vampire Hunter D who is a dhampir, half human half vampire (Noble). I love his character sooo much he seems very detached from the other characters of every book that I've read of his adventures (3). He like the ultimate, smoothest fighter I've read about, it almost comes to easy for him.

Within this book D is hired to go get a girl who was captured by a Noble. But a clan of vampire hunters was hired for the job as well. Not to mention the girl went with Mayerling (the vampire) on her own free will (this is very rare) and they love each other.

Just that little glimpse of storyline makes this book have such strong appeal to me. Not to mention after reading the first two I was hooked.

The Marcus Clan was interesting to read about. There is five of them in all and they all have their own skills that make them strong hunters for just being humans. I think my favorite character out of their clan would have to be the girl Leila. She is very strong with what she has to put up with and shes a pretty bad-ass at driving.

Mayerling and his girl are so romantic. I loved the two of them together and I just wanted to keep reading to see if they'd make it out alive. They have quite a few "awe" moments to them.

I really enjoyed this book, I found it to be a quick read. There is always some really dark and mess up things within these books I noticed so far, but their interesting to read about. It is one of the shorter ones that have read out of this series, but I enjoyed this story more than I did for the second.



I gave this book 4 out of 5 bats.

2014 Reading Goals/ Challenges

This will be most of my reading goals for this year.
First off my goodreads goal is to read 48 books this year!

2014 Reading Challenge

Clarisse has read 1 book toward her goal of 48 books.

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1. Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
2. Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo
3.Branded by Keary Taylor
4. The Witch of Duva by Leigh Bardugo (Novella)
5. The Tailor by Leigh Bardugo (Novella)
6. The Too-Clever Fox by Leigh Bardugo (Novella)
7. Vampire Hunter D Volume 3: Demon Deathchase by Hideyuki Kikuchi
8. Cinder by Marissa Meyer
9. The Pledge by Kimberly Derting
10. Glitches by Marissa Meyer (Novella)
11. The Queen's Army by Marissa Meyer (Novella)
12. Scarlet by Marissa Meyer
13. The Girl and the Raven by Pauline Gruber
14. Nordic Fairies by Saga Berg
15. Masque of the Red Death by Bethany Griffin
16. Glitter and Doom by Bethany Griffin (Novella)
17. Dance of the Red Death by Bethany Griffin
18. The Park Service by Ryan Winfield
19. Albaster: Pale Horse by Caitlin R Kiernan
20. Thirst by Claire Farrell
21. See How She Runs by Michelle Graves
22. Carnelian by B. Kristin McMichael
23. Cassandra in the Mirror by Piera Sarasini
24. Two Tales Dark and Grim by Rachel Hawkins and Julie Kagawa (Novella)
25. Federal Bureau of Physics Vol 1: The Paradigm Shift by Simon Oliver
26. See How She Fights by Michelle Graves
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Next I found out about the 2014 Witches & Witchcraft Reading Challenge hosted by Melissa's Eclectic Bookshelf.  I thought that this challenge sounded like a lot of fun. I have been wanting to get into reading more witch books this year so this will give me the push I need to get started. Im just going to be entering on a initiate level which is 1-5 books. I might read more but who knows really. If you interested in looking into to this challenge more you can click on the picture below.

1.The Girl and the Raven by Pauline Gruber
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Next I decided I wanted to read at least 2 classics this year as well. Yay Classics!
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Also I wanted to join in on more read-a-thons this year as well to help me read more this year.

And then there were Vampires!
I found a vampire challenge that sounds perfect for me! It is hosted by parajunkee.com

1. The challenge is to read 10 books that have a VAMPIRE as a main, or supporting character
2. Books can be in any format and should be at least 100 pages. Short stories do not count. You can also post about rereads.

Like I said before this challenge sounds perfect for me and I'm excited to get in on it.
1. Vampire Hunter D Volume 3: Demon Deathchase by Hideyuki Kikuchi
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If I add more challenges to this year then Ill update this post with them on it. Hope you enjoyed finding out what I plan on reading in 2014.