Alina’s tale in Bite of Loyalty began late on a Saturday night, early Sunday morning really, when she was essentially rescued in the form of being taken to another realm by a goddess who sensed that she was in need. From there she got barely one night of rest before she immediately had to prepare for her new life as a vampire. Having very little control over her new urges for blood and knowing next to nothing about the rules and etiquette of vampire society, she is expected to attend classes the next day with students, all of whom have been vampires for quite a while and are well versed in all the things she is not. The entire book spans just four days. Bite of Betrayal, the second book in the Blood Oath series, begins where it left off, on a Wednesday morning. Things progress with the same intense, expedited speed in book two, with Alina just making it through her first week at the Academy.
This book could be so much better if there was more detail, more plot, more depth. I think that if the author could have spread the timeline out it could have potentially been on the same level as some of the truly great fantasy series that are popular right now. Because honestly, the speed at which things occur really makes the story hard to believe, even though it is a fantasy series about vampires. But, I don’t find myself saying that about other books in the same genre, because the way that time moves and feelings and rapport between characters develop in other more complex stories make them truly believable. And even though I know that magic and superpowers and unusual creatures aren’t real, it feels like they are when the story is well written. The best I can say about this book is that the spicy level is equal to that of the first, and those few scenes were worth reading.
Nonfiction and Nonsense 