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5.0 out of 5 stars
Oh Oh Another Ancient awakened!, October 5, 2011
This review is from: Blood Eternal: An Awakened by Blood Novel (Mass Market Paperback)
I found this to be one of the best Vampire series since Kerrelyn Sparks "Love at Stake" books. Saloman & Elizabeth enchanted me from the first book. This is the third in the series. Saloman's cousin Luk, another Ancient, is awakened by a US Senator who would like to be "turned" to feed his politcal power avarice & to kill Saloman & his Awakener Elizabeth.Vampire war is on the horizon. Most of the great characters are back from the other books & some exciting new ones. I liked that there were more of Saloman's thoughts regarding his deepening feelings for Elizabeth who is torn between her loyalty to the Hunters & her ever growing love of this powerful being. His dilemma of his love for the insane cousin Luk, who was also his mentor & along with his lover Tsigana betrayed & staked him 300 + years earlier, till Elizabeth, a descendant of Tsigana accidently awakened him. I enjoyed Saloman's funny one-liners & turn up the air conditioners for the love scenes were steamy dreamy. Even though this is a trilogy, I felt that Ms. Treanor left some room for other stories (I hope!)Possibly Michaela, Maxmillian, Cyn, John, Josh,& Angyalka & maybe a bit more of Saloman & Elizabeth. I could not put this book down & read it in one day!!
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Exciting conclusion, October 26, 2011
Elizabeth has her Ph.D, her teaching position at St. Andrews University is about to end, and she's sitting on a job offer from a university in Budapest wondering if she should take it. She'd be closer to Saloman, but she's not sure he wants her there or if she'd appear to clingy. On the other hand, she'd be closer to her hunter friends and could continue doing some odd jobs for them. One of her odd jobs takes her to an Army hospital where she visits an injured soldier who tells her a story of vampires drinking is blood after being injured in an explosion and then being rescued by a dark angel. The man sounds hauntingly like Saloman, which has Elizabeth wondering what he's up to. Next, she sees video of him telling Peruvian villagers to leave a day or two prior to a devastating earthquake. She realizes he's helping people, not trying to control them as she originally thought. Desperate to get to him, she's about ready to book the next flight to Peru when she gets word from the hunters that the Ancient Luc, has been reawakened and she's needed in Turkey. She knows what this news will do to Saloman, so she vows that she will be the one to put Luc back into his grave to save Saloman that pain. Saloman feels when Luc is awakened and makes his way to Turkey. He discovers that Dante's had a hand in awakened Luc and is now teaming up with some very reluctant hunters to try and capture both Luc and Dante before things go really bad. But things go from bad to worse when Luc and Dante stir up the vampire community in a revolt against Saloman and his new ways. It's now up to Saloman, Elizabeth and the hunters to stop Luc before more blood is spilled. This book will make you love Saloman. I was kind of on the fence with him, because he was such an arrogant ass most of the time. It always seemed like he was using Elizabeth for sex and/or blood, then discarded her afterwards. Sure, in Blood Sin, he did get a little better towards the end, but he was still all about him and not so much about Elizabeth unless she was right in front of him. He's different in this book. He's always thinking about Elizabeth, even when she thinks he isn't. We discover he's learned to close himself off from everyone since he was a young boy, because his father would use your secrets to punish you. To Saloman, if no one knows what you love they can't use it against you. But he's learning that closing himself off from Elizabeth is hurting her more than he ever realized and he changes...for her. Elizabeth finally starts seeing that she has been a bit of a doormat to Saloman and starts to stand her ground with him, a little. She knows that she can never stay mad at him if she's right in front of him, but she does start walking away and giving them both time to reflect on whatever action Saloman has done to set her off. She learns that if she asks the questions or tells Saloman how she feels, things work out much better (for example: telling him about her job offer and finding out he's excited). I wasn't in love with the ending to this. I was confused about what happened with Elizabeth when her new powers came into play (as I don't remember them being mentioned much before) and how that managed to stop all the bad vampires in their tracks. But I was ok with that, since for me the story was really about Saloman and Elizabeth resolving their differences to be together.
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I wished more pages were devoted to Elizabeth and Saloman., October 11, 2011
This review is from: Blood Eternal: An Awakened by Blood Novel (Mass Market Paperback)
Blood Eternal by Marie Treanor
Paranormal Romance -Oct. 4th, 2011
4 stars Blood Eternal is the third and last book in the `Awakened by Blood' trilogy. The whole series follow the romantic relationship between Elizabeth Silk, an academic/graduate student, who accidentally awakened the greatest vampire ever known to mankind, Saloman. (Due to its complexity, this is not a recommended stand-alone read; it is best if you start at the very first book and work your way to the last one.) Elizabeth Silk has finally reached some sort of tenuous balance in her life - she has admitted completely to herself and to others that she is irrevocably in love with Saloman irregardless of whether he feels the same way. Happily, Saloman is making the effort to keep Elizabeth in his life even though they may spent time far apart. When Elizabeth receives word from the vampire hunters that Saloman's cousin, Luk, was awakened by Dante, the ambitious US senator who craves power and dominion over all, she flies immediately to Turkey, not knowing the danger she's in. As he slowly recovers his memory, Luk is half-mad and had been treated by Dante as a pet. Now Luk wants to exact revenge against Saloman, the vampire who killed him. When Luk discovers Elizabeth and her importance to Saloman, he shifts his focus to her. Can Saloman protect Elizabeth? There's a lot going on in this book. First you have the demented Dante and insane Luke running amok. Secondly you have Saloman and Elizabeth's fragile relationship, thirdly Saloman is trying to convince the hunters to change their mindset and let vampires and humans co-exist peacefully, fourthly Elizabeth has a mysterious illness, and lastly, there's another group of humans who are forming another vampire hunter club. All in all, this is a very packed story. With so much going on, the plot, with its multiple branches and subplots, does feel a bit rushed and chaotic. The reason why I enjoyed the first book so much was the amount of focus the author placed on Saloman and Elizabeth's romance. By the third book, I feel like the story has gotten out of the author's control. There's simply too much, which weighs down the pace of the story. I don't mind reading about Luk, but Dante, despite being the main villain in the second book, didn't appear much in the third book. There was so much going on I thought it was overkill. There were simply not enough room in the book for them, and I wished that the author had expanded the story or had another book or two in the series. I wished more pages were devoted to Elizabeth and Saloman. I'm really glad that Saloman finally moved past the mindset that sex with Elizabeth is just sex. It's nice to see him reciprocate some feelings back. To me, the first half of the book is the closest the two of them can get to a `real' relationship between a vampire and a human. Overall, I felt the twists and storyline were a bit too pat and eventually...unsatisfying and bloodless. Towards the end, I keep having a sneaky suspicion that Treanor got too attached to her characters and just wanted a nice, easy happily-ever-after for them. Blood Eternal is a decent conclusion to the trilogy, and I am happy about Saloman's emotional growth in the last book, but I feel that it lack a certain `oomph' that made the first book an amazing roller coaster ride. Reviewed by Pauline from the Bookaholics Romance Club
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