Blood Orange (The Dracula Duet, #1)

Blood Orange (The Dracula Duet, #1)

Karina Halle

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From New York Times bestselling author Karina Halle comes a dark and delicious Dracula retelling filled with secrets and lies, dangerous liaisons and a forbidden, student-teacher, second chance love story with a twist. "My heart will always find yours." Dahlia Abernathy has only known revenge. When her parents were killed at an early age by vampires, Dahlia spent the rest of her life under the thumb of the Witch's Guild being trained to kill them. Her latest mission sends her undercover to a prestigious music academy in Venice, Italy. Her goal? To kill Professor Valtu Aminoff, her teacher and the notorious vampire who inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula. But getting close to a dangerous vampire like Professor Aminoff is one thing. Falling for him is another. With Dahlia's appearance disguised under a glamor spell, Valtu has no idea that the woman who has become his new dark obsession is actually the reincarnation of the woman he loved and lost twice before. And Dahlia doesn't remember that the very man she has been sent to kill is the love of her life. Will their love come through and transcend time once again? Or are the fated lovers destined to let history repeat itself? Blood Orange is a modern-day Dracula retelling about the "real-life" Dracula that inspired Bram Stoker. This is a dark vampire romance with plenty of content warnings (please check interior of book for extensive list as it is +++++spicy) and while it is a spinoff of The Dark Eyes Duet, you do not need to read any other books before Blood Orange.


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    Honestly I was expecting to give this a solid 3 stars. I'd probably give it more of a 2.75 now that I've had time to think on it. 

    The story was a bit too predictable, but somehow it still managed to keep me engaged. 

    I wish we got a little more exploring the actual vampire slaying part of Dahlia’s character because it just felt like she had the label of slayer slapped on her and it didn’t add enough to the story for my taste. There were a lot of interesting plot points added into the background that could have done great things for the story if they were actually expanded upon. I guess I just wanted to see something more, and more reason for the forbidden romance trope than we were given. 

    The spice level on this one is high though, so if that's what you're looking for you wont be disappointed. If you're looking for a compelling vampire story though, I'm not sure this is it.

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    WTF WTF WTF OH MY GOD I NEED THE SEQUEL NOW OH MY GODDDD THIS WAS DELICIOUS

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